Marcia Clark: Arctic Paintings: Greenland
June 7-August 31, 2013
Ilulissat Kunstmuseum, Greenland
http://www.ilukunstmus.gl
An exhibition of icescapes painted in the environs of Ilulissat, Oqaatsut and Saqqaq. Clark has been painting the Greenland landscape with a focus on the ice since 2007. Her project complements that of the Danish artist, Emanuel Petersen (1894-1948), whose depictions of Greenlandic light and atmosphere comprise the permanent collection of the museum.
Image:
ICEFIORD WITH MAP
2011 oil over map transfer/canvas 36" x 60 "' Marcia Clark's repeated visits to the Arctic over a fourteen year period made it increasingly apparent to her that irreversible changes were taking place. Most of us can only know what is happening to our planet by means of statistical reports that are often conflicting. Through the artist's willingness to submerge herself in a harsh and challenging environment and thanks to her consummate but unostentatious artistic powers, we are made to feel not only the thrill of the Arctic experience, but the momentum of change as solid ice dissolves—the glories of the frozen north and the inexorable process of ecological transformation.
A catalogue with an introduction by Martica Sawin accompanies the exhibition:
Marcia Clark: Arctic Paintings: Greenland
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SBN-13: 978-1484015773
ISBN-10: 1484015770
BISAC: Art / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes
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Recent exhibitions:
Solo exhibition:
Romano Gallery
Armstrong-Higgins Center for the Arts
Blairstown, NJ 07825
The Arctic: Day into Night
October 23-November 17, 2012
Press release
Image:
SEMINARY OVERLOOK
2011 / oil on Mylar / 43" x 80"'
Marcia Clark's paintings feature Arctic landscapes, visited on journeys to Greenland, Iceland and Arctic Norway. The glaciers, icebergs, and ensuing, detritus convey the very omens that currently haunt us, as she witnesses ice, appearing solid as a mountain, deconstruct, melt, or suddenly vanish. Ice in its fragility and beauty, and the Arctic winter, with its vibrant electrically charged night skies, are the focus of this show, in small studies on aluminum, Mylar and canvas, and larger works incorporating multiple panels and mixed media.
Group exhibitions:
Points of View at Blue Mountain Gallery, December 1 to 22
Points of View II at Fairleigh Dickinson University, November 19 to December 21
Blue Mountain Gallery
530 West 25 St, New York
October 4-29, 2011
Press release
Installation shots
Digital installation
Image:
HARBOR, ILULISSAT
2011 / oil on aluminum / 5" x 8'
Group exhibition:
The Reshaped World
Washington Art Assocation
Washington Depot, CT
September 19-October 18, 2009
Installation in
Polar Weekend
American Museum
of Natural History
February 7 & 8, 2009
Recent Paintings from Travels in the Arctic
Installation shots
Digitial installation
Marcia Clark’s paintings in this traveling exhibition
reflect her recent travels to the Arctic. In 2006 she visited
Norway’s
Svalbard Archipelago and in 2007 she was in
northwest Greenland as artist in residence at the
Upernavik Museum. Her focus in this exhibition is on the
forever fluctuating, mutating, and transforming nature
of the polar ice.
Ice, Iceberg, Baffin Bay, shown above, was painted
last spring in Upernavik. “The large iceberg in the
distance was there when I arrived,” said Clark, “and
seemed as permanent and solid as a mountain until it
suddenly disappeared a couple of weeks later.”
Another image that remained vivid from her travels was
an ice tower which a French visitor referred to as “Notre
Dame.” It sat at the entrance to the Jacobshaven Fiord
for over a month until it sailed off and was seen in the
distance a few hours later, disappearing behind a spit
of land.
“For Clark, a world without terrafirma has led her to
seek a new language evoking mutable form and
shifting spaces.” —Wendy Gittler
Clark is a widely exhibited artist and the recipient of numerous awards. She has a BFA degree in painting from Yale
University and a MFA degree from SUNY New Paltz.
Article in Panorama Magazine,
Albany Institute of History and Art, Fall 2008
Gallery & Studio, September-October, 2011
Times Union, January 1, 2009
Gallery & Studio, April, 2008
Gallery & Studio, September-October, 2003
New York Times, April 19, 2002
Times Union, September 2002
New York Times, August 11, 1995
Art & Antiques, November 1989
Art in America, 1985