Marcia Clark (artist)
Marcia Clark (born 1938 in
Early life
Clark studied at
An important early experience was the exploration of the White Mountains in New Hampshire which she started climbing in the late 1960s. Clark was selected by the Naturalist in Residency Program of the Appalachian Mountain Club, to paint at the Lakes of the Clouds Hut, close to the summit of Mt. Washington. It was the beginning of her awareness of change and flux in an environment.[4] The artist and environmentalist Alan Gussow brought a film crew to the top of Mt. Washington to interview Clark for "A Sense of Place" for Nebraska ETV in 1974.[5]
Painting
Shortly after her White Mountains expedition, Clark returned to New York and joined the First Street Gallery in the city's art scene in 1970s SoHo.
Clark joined the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York in 1985 and became its director in 1993. Continuing her exploration of mountain landscapes, she traveled in the 1990s to Tibet, Nepal and the Himalayas. Over many subsequent art travels and residencies since the 1990s, which included Iceland, Greenland and Alaska, perhaps her most adventurous was a solitary stay in a cabin on a rock imbedded in the ice of Ruth Glacier on the slope Mt Denali.[4]: 9 Clark draws on location and makes oil and watercolor sketches, keeping a photo journal to help recall.[8] The smaller works are done on site and the larger paintings are done in the studio.[2]
"I'm drawn in by the drama of the changing panorama. There is a sense of foreboding in those seemingly solid structures that melt and vanish or turn and disappear and I want to bear witness to their existence."[4]: 10–11 Clark's anxiety about climate change keeps her returning to the north, but the work is not directly political. In recent years, Greenland has been her focus in many trips and she has become particularly close to the community of Uummannaq where she has chronicled the evolving scene. The director of the children's home there commissioned her to paint a landscape on the side of a 20 by 8 ft (6.1 by 2.4 m) shipping container they had for storage with the subject of their own heart-shaped mountain depicted on it. It was completed in 2015.[9]
Professional life
In New York, Clark has exhibited in the
References
- ^ Johnson, Ken. (April 19, 2002). "Marcia Clark: Looking North". New York Times.
- ^ a b Dantzic, Cynthia (2006), 100 New York Painters, Schiffer Ltd., p. 64
- ^ a b Godfrey, Robert (December 1984), "Marcia Clark", Arts Magazine, New York, p. 9
- ^ a b c Sawin, Martica (June 2013), "Marcia Clark: Bearing Witness" | Marcia Clark:Arctic Paintings/Greenland, Iulissat Kustmuseum, Greenland, p. 7
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Gussow, Alan (Nov 1974), "A Sense of Place", Choice, Nebraska's Public Television Magazine
- ^ "Better Than Ever: Women Figurative Artists of the -70s SoHo Co-ops", Salena Gallery, Brooklyn NY: Long Island University, March 2009
- ^ Brenson, Michael (Nov 2, 1984), "Art Reviews", New York Times
- ^ a b Marcia Clark: In Search of Ice, Blue Mountain Gallery, March 2008, unpaginated
- ^ Pineiro-Zucker, Diane (Nov 22, 2015), "Rifton Artist Records Climate in Change in Greenland", The Daily Freeman, Kingston NY dpzuckerfreemanonline.com
- ^ a b Marcia Clark:Arctic Paintings/Greenland, Greenland: Iulissat Kustmuseum, June 2013, p. 31
- ^ Raynor, Vivian (Jan 1, 1989), "The World is Round", New York Times