tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65612579811825634482024-03-21T18:09:59.688-07:00Thea ClarkThea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.comBlogger244125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-1825467594062628402016-03-05T16:38:00.001-08:002016-03-06T07:05:12.902-08:00Swirling Toward a Show<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH_9zgqtw-H61DrSROvevZz1rJfquzGaZaZSqaw_MlHV8sUvu7eqZet8RNQtyJkRBiFzpZZaINVvl4_pWLxKDiGYOinul8rBozo_i0oG3Zu5N5wcYNBqQapsMA2d9kEvYuK3tbRnzQc3nQ/s640/blogger-image-1834088933.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH_9zgqtw-H61DrSROvevZz1rJfquzGaZaZSqaw_MlHV8sUvu7eqZet8RNQtyJkRBiFzpZZaINVvl4_pWLxKDiGYOinul8rBozo_i0oG3Zu5N5wcYNBqQapsMA2d9kEvYuK3tbRnzQc3nQ/s640/blogger-image-1834088933.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgN94hhynJbQgwaUpjuh1ajRI0lTKwy1Woz9ITepNWbq5oci-NoQ73WMtwD6qIzq73wDoFX-jGEGCuYVdFe9GIHbcVJSDChxQIfkXQf30uTvAUf_n6BiitMndyX_Vi5cYID8PiTnhBkb5B/s640/blogger-image-223359175.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgN94hhynJbQgwaUpjuh1ajRI0lTKwy1Woz9ITepNWbq5oci-NoQ73WMtwD6qIzq73wDoFX-jGEGCuYVdFe9GIHbcVJSDChxQIfkXQf30uTvAUf_n6BiitMndyX_Vi5cYID8PiTnhBkb5B/s640/blogger-image-223359175.jpg"></a></div>Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-3021439936007509332016-03-02T20:38:00.002-08:002016-03-02T20:45:07.452-08:00So Much has Happened...Life continuously surprises with its challenges, thank goodness! If everything was easy sailing I am sure I would be bored. So I will take the drama instead.<br />
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I have been hard at work and am so excited about new pieces and shows I am either in or preparing for. I have been making efforts to connect with my local art scene which is very strong. This is such a nice balance from the jewelry world which is quite far flung.<br />
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In September I had work in Newark, the beautiful Paul Robeson Main Gallery curated by Anonda Bell. I was also able to give an artist's talk to the Rutgers University students there.<br />
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The (Not So) Secret Life of Plants
Main Gallery
September 1 – December 17, 2015
Plants are the foundation on which most visible life on the planet exists.
They are under stress, with diminishing natural environments and the very
real possibility that many plants may become extinct even before humans
are aware of their existence. This exhibition will explore the nature of plants
and how humans interact with them, from the forest to the home.
Includes the work of Thea Clark, John Edmark, Dana Fritz, Jim Jacobs, MingJer
Kuo, Jessica Lagunas, Sam Metcalf, Lina Puerta, Lindsay M. Robbins,
Linda Stillman, Adam Swart, Yeon Ji Yoo, and Rachel Yurkovich
This exhibition is accompanied by a catalog with contributions by Anonda
Bell, Caren King Choi, Peter J. Cohen, Naomi Sachs, and Peter Singer.<br />
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A piece from 2014 was shown Axial Bifurcation, taking on an a life of its own apart from the original installation (The Quick and the Deep) configuration.<br />
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Currently I have another sculpture from 2014 on view in "Guide ropes and Live Wires" the faculty art exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, documented in a wonderful catalog. Shelter (for the new disasters) cited in an alcove framed so nicely.<br />
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Tomorrow night I am showing 2 pieces, one from my solo installation The Quick and The Deep, another just completed especially for the show "Black, White and Green" curated by Katherine Murdock. My piece Holding Pattern (2014, below) is on the post card. From the press release:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">On March 3, 2016 from 6-8pm, Morris Arts will host a free opening reception for the Gallery at 14 Maple’s fifteenth exhibit, entitled Black, White and Green. For this occasion, with guest curator Katherine Murdock, the Exhibition Committee of Morris Arts and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation selected works by the following outstanding New Jersey artists, Pat </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">Brentano (Westfield), Jose Camacho (Montclair), Kathy Cantwell (Maplewood), Thea Clark (Maplewood), Carol Nussbaum (Short Hills), Casey Ruble (Milford), Nancy Ori (Berkley Heights), Jessica Rohrer (Bloomfield), and Raymond Saá (Maplewood). Two outstanding artists from New York are also featured: Richard Bottwin (Brooklyn) and Riad Miah (New York).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">Inspired by the biowall, the vertical garden of living plants within the exhibit space, Curator Murdock chose to focus the exhibit on plants and selected the title,</span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Black, White and </strong><strong style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Green</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px;">, to purposefully reflect that limited color palette as a means of unifying the exhibit. What is striking, however, is the richness and variety of the artists’ unique approaches to the theme – through their use of different media (collage, oil, cold wax painting, photography, charcoal drawings, wood sculpture, etc.), composition, and subtle gradations of color. As Murdock notes, “Casey Ruble’s paper collage illustrates a bundled bouquet of invasive plant species and Kathy Cantwell’s oil and cold wax on panel explores green color fields that resemble landscape. Richard Bottwin uses plant material as a medium and highlights the wood grain with stain and paint.” Pat Brentano combines cut paper and acrylic on canvas to highlight subtleties within the spectrum of green while Thea Clark, in essence, “creates” plant life with artificial turf, acrylic textile, cotton thread, wood and foam. Jose Camacho’s work focuses on the abstract, ghostly images of possible plant life in his black and white oils on paper. Similarly, stark black and white is used to highlight Nature’s geometric precision in Carol Nussbaum’s striking flower mandala photos. Riad Miah’s use of electric green and geometric units suggests plant life on a cellular level while Nancy Ori’s photographs cut to the essence of botanical forms, revealing hidden structures. Jessica Rohrer’s gouache captures the green fluidity and grace of a hosta plant while the dramatic and intense charcoal drawings of Raymond Saá suggest the explosive release of energy of segmented structures that seem to collapse, yet still bristle with vitality.</span><br />
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More shows and images to come both sculpture and jewelry. One of an artist's great pleasures is when our support systems of curators and gallery owners support new work. Their feedback is so valuable from the isolation of the studio.<br />
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Opening reception Thursday, September 10, 5-7pm</div>
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Curated by Anonda Bell</div>
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Plants are the foundation on which most visible life on the planet exists. They are under stress, with diminishing natural environments and the very real possibility that many plants may become extinct even before humans are aware of their existence. This exhibition will explore the nature of plants and how humans interact with them, from the forest to the home.</div>
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Artists in this exhibition: Thea Clark, John Edmark, Dana Fritz, Jim Jacobs, Ming-Jer Kuo, Jessica Lagunas, Sam Metcalf, Lina Puerta, Lindsay M. Robbins, Martina Shenal, Linda Stillman, Adam Swart, Yeon Ji Yoo, Rachel Yurkovich.</div>
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Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-30495608273217694322015-08-15T11:49:00.000-07:002015-08-15T11:49:06.945-07:00For the Love of FiberAs my work shifts between small scale and large, I find the fascination for fiber as a medium with its resonance of all things female, continues to be relevant. I first started exploring fiber through felting back in 2006, combining it with metal in jewelry work.<br />
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I am excited to have the chance to introduce this rich combination of materials and processes in September at the Touchstone School of Craft.<br />
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-size: 12px;">Harness the dynamic beauty of opposites when you combine metal and felt into jewelry pieces. You will learn two-dimensional wet felting and three-dimensional needle felting techniques, making colorful and expressive designs and forms. You will incorporate these with fabricated metal by using tabs, rivets, armatures, and soldered wire forms. Many technical and creative tips will be shared. Participants will leave with a variety of completed pendants and earrings. </span></div>
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Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-84875374652142892252015-06-14T10:00:00.001-07:002015-06-14T10:00:58.820-07:00Of Two Minds<br />
"Axial Bifurcation", 2015, from a recent proposal.<br />
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“Axial Bifurcation” describes having two heads.This title refers to how mankind is of two minds in our relationship to nature, either treasuring or trampling it. Utilizing wood planks which can be read as 3 dimensional map coordinates, or as aerial views of encroaching roadways. The asphalt shingles on these forms vie for territory on a constricted surface, limiting the space available for artificial turf grass and cyanotypes of branch imagery to spring from cracks, a simulacrum of nature in an urban landscape.<br />
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Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-750636234900502432015-06-14T09:54:00.004-07:002015-06-14T10:43:50.595-07:00Summer Offers...<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, palatino, serif; font-size: 14.6666669845581px;">You begin with the possibilities of the material. (Robert Rauschenberg)</span><br />
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Summer offers a first time teaching experience at the Society of Contemporary Crafts in Pittsburgh, PA. This upcoming July 11 & 12, weekend workshop will be full of hands on mixed media material explorations. That's the "dia" of mixed media.<br />
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<br />Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-30136671834378879292015-02-28T13:52:00.000-08:002015-04-22T20:23:39.987-07:00Winter Always Turns to SpringIt has been a long, cold one and life has a way to surprise with its challenges. I have been back in the studio, plus I have an image from the last exhibition. "Thou Art Mom". You can see the detail on the underneath side below in the Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ of ,"Shelter ( for the new disasters)".<br>
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The as of yet "Untitled" thing pictured here on my studio floor. It seemed ocular at first, also sperm like, finally reminiscent of an opium pod.<br>
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Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-55102862955819579462014-09-25T16:04:00.001-07:002014-09-25T16:04:09.993-07:00Hey While It LastsLots going on, thinking about impermanence lately. SO while it lasts you can read Mary Birmingham's essay for my solo show and see some images <a href="https://www.artcenternj.org/view/Archived-Exhibitions/Thea-Clark.aspx">here</a>. Also check out the works of other artists curated by her into the beautiful.<br />
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Don't be a public transit wimp if you can get around the five boroughs to Williamsburg and Red Bank you ride in ease and relative luxury out to Summit NJ on NJ Transit. While we are on the subject there is an upcoming opening that is sure interesting <a href="http://www.artcenternj.org/exhibitions/upcoming-exhibitions/">"Doppler Shift" </a>, Sept 29th 1-4.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-28474179919989566702014-09-05T08:38:00.001-07:002014-09-05T08:38:56.810-07:00Oh yeah quick pics<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPp-uMx550Eo1-lN8QgBZxO09VCbJEirs2wIb78pQUonOZWGjS0r1ZhRnp9hkV3BAb2B4gmYftL_2MOSonZRA9bEVl2fwLthVIVkbVti_KYQ-zFoXDLAWTbQBwAaOFhvHQD4ciyUQFYIcb/s640/blogger-image--275561251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPp-uMx550Eo1-lN8QgBZxO09VCbJEirs2wIb78pQUonOZWGjS0r1ZhRnp9hkV3BAb2B4gmYftL_2MOSonZRA9bEVl2fwLthVIVkbVti_KYQ-zFoXDLAWTbQBwAaOFhvHQD4ciyUQFYIcb/s640/blogger-image--275561251.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3lc9C0qP7OcH-F-M-e-kGbrs9SoGT4b_rOaWQisF_ZiYwZ0Kry6wRYSA2mfB_B88184eaf-oUD_2XtZLzDIGJK732-gjaetKbQVg9_9SnLgmfqZUMUCvf4TBn3E9T3Fv4D36EOIk8h1u/s640/blogger-image-1607639581.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv3lc9C0qP7OcH-F-M-e-kGbrs9SoGT4b_rOaWQisF_ZiYwZ0Kry6wRYSA2mfB_B88184eaf-oUD_2XtZLzDIGJK732-gjaetKbQVg9_9SnLgmfqZUMUCvf4TBn3E9T3Fv4D36EOIk8h1u/s640/blogger-image-1607639581.jpg"></a></div><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPp-uMx550Eo1-lN8QgBZxO09VCbJEirs2wIb78pQUonOZWGjS0r1ZhRnp9hkV3BAb2B4gmYftL_2MOSonZRA9bEVl2fwLthVIVkbVti_KYQ-zFoXDLAWTbQBwAaOFhvHQD4ciyUQFYIcb/s640/blogger-image--275561251.jpg"></div>Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-35660677124936843402014-09-05T08:35:00.002-07:002014-09-05T08:35:26.288-07:00Catching upSuch a busy summer, I am only now catching up on some emails that slipped by me. Here is a<a href="http://contemporarty.com/author/eleniroumpou/"> link</a> to a jewelry exhibition in Greece on the blog Contemporarty. I travel vicariously on the internet for now, plus it is inspiring to see small sculptural works of jewelry gain a foothold in far corners of the world.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-5583991255276346362014-09-03T16:25:00.002-07:002014-09-25T15:46:16.751-07:00Catalog Excerpt, Multiple Exposures<div style="background-color: #e5e5e5; font-family: proxima-nova, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23.520000457763672px;">
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"The cyanotype process is one of photography's earliest incarnations. This anachronistic medium produces images of ghostly shapes surrounded by radiant blues that are so otherworldly compared to the hard-edged contrasts of black and white that the process has never really gone out of fashion. Whether manifesting in necklace, brooch, or wall-piece forms, Thea Clark's work combines shaped pink plastic and cyanotype imagery in a unique hybrid of structure and image, the contemporary and the archaic, the organic and the architectural. Her Root Pendant, for example suggests a kind of living Eiffel Tower that thrusts upward toward the neck and head of the wearer while finger-like roots stretch down to the lower regions of the body. Interlocking cyanotype imagery encircles the pendant, interrupted by a pink stitching that has attached itself to the pattern like a virus. Ideas of identity, health, secrets, and sources of power resonate from this association of forms and materials. Like much of Clark's work, Root Pendant is a deceptively simple miniature ecosystem of organic and cultural references."</div>
Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-60586638081587036332014-08-27T10:27:00.001-07:002014-08-27T10:27:32.216-07:00Thou Art Mom, Pierro Gallery, South Orange details<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/287998898072999/?ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular">Thou Art Mom</a> join the event on Facebook.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-9160008709495266512014-08-14T21:04:00.000-07:002014-08-14T21:04:01.198-07:00Upcoming ExhibitionThis September I am pleased to be included in an upcoming group exhibition at the Pierro Gallery of South Orange, NJ, titled , "<a href="http://www.pierrogallery.org/exhibits.asp">Thou Art Mom"</a>. The show also includes an online interview component, curated by photographer Susan Evans Grove.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-29126279043021983042014-08-14T20:50:00.000-07:002014-08-14T20:50:17.305-07:00Local TV Interview from Solo OpeningHometown TV out of Summit New Jersey, interviewed the three artists artists having solo openings at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey in Spring. This is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBrfEdvkAeY&feature=youtu.be">my interview</a> with host Fred Honold, "The Quick and The Deep".Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-29726274023921805972014-08-04T10:51:00.002-07:002014-08-04T10:52:10.786-07:00Encyclopedia of Creativity<a href="http://drc.scu.edu.cn/uploadfile/Encyclopedia%20of%20Creativity(volume%202).pdf">Encyclopedia of Creativity pdf</a> Great articles about creativity from many perspectives.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-11203860313003193972014-07-25T21:58:00.001-07:002014-07-25T21:58:46.549-07:00NY Sighting<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtt7p-8G38IAvjY4dJn5hvd91SiM7Gb78F_okKLHBpGT6RKgMXwaSgUZop2sGgoaeKct89G1CBfjwY47h5tcH2LuKg2YmeVKHJhkmqRZ1YZ9ndN6BevUGdfYkhfrzU3_GI4I9NpEaAPkr/s640/blogger-image--1209891695.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbtt7p-8G38IAvjY4dJn5hvd91SiM7Gb78F_okKLHBpGT6RKgMXwaSgUZop2sGgoaeKct89G1CBfjwY47h5tcH2LuKg2YmeVKHJhkmqRZ1YZ9ndN6BevUGdfYkhfrzU3_GI4I9NpEaAPkr/s640/blogger-image--1209891695.jpg"></a></div>Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-87166247302682968032014-07-25T21:49:00.000-07:002014-07-25T21:49:10.963-07:00First This Way Then ThatSome ideas percolate, others come unannounced. Churning over new terrains and materials, pumped to "move on", it seems the ones I have most recently been handling aren't ready to be retired. <br />
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Others not necessarily slated for the show, one almost complete is a "weapon", while in the studio a larger piece waits for me to get back to finish is an "instrument", both part of this group, "For the New Disasters".<br />
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Meanwhile I read a short story that took me right back to my youth in San Francisco during the early uncertain and paranoid years of the AIDS crisis. This of course leads to memories of the AIDS quilt a powerful fusion of mourning, art, and activism.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-78595121023779717472014-07-11T15:17:00.001-07:002014-07-11T15:17:32.904-07:00Cyanotype on Silk WorkshopComing to Brooklyn Metal Works this September 7th for a one day workshop, "<a href="http://bkmetalworks.com/classes/cyanotype-on-silk/">Cyanotype on Silk"</a>. Join me as we delve into the creative potential of this early photographic process. Learn the technique and get inspired by the survey of contemporary artists who incorporate cyanotype into their artwork. Special attention will be spent on adhering to 2D and 3D wood and metal surfaces, just one approach that I have adapted to use in jewelry pieces.<br />
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Cyan Structure, brooch 2014Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-45667970492616900582014-06-10T15:44:00.002-07:002014-06-10T15:44:45.809-07:00Online Ink and then someInformation about the current<a href="http://features.jerseyarts.com/content/index.php/featured/2014/06/summer-arts-flourish-at-the-visual-arts-center-of-new-jersey/"> trio of shows at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey</a>. They offer very creative family activities with every season of shows, so look for the next one in the Fall.<br />
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Also a nice one page article in the Sunday Star Ledger (6/8/14) , by Dan Bischoff, haven't seen an online link though.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-55634733825003861222014-06-04T06:30:00.000-07:002014-06-04T06:30:25.595-07:00La Frontera in HoustonSee La Frontera at the Houston Center of Contemporary Craft until September 7th. You can see a photo of my piece Entangled in cozy company with other interesting works <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=880200161995719&set=a.384375608244846.114151.100000172299056&type=1&theater">here</a>.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-10463533799274107712014-06-01T21:56:00.001-07:002014-06-01T21:56:18.372-07:00Ann Hamilton- because<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-73837887239782678062014-05-26T22:32:00.000-07:002014-05-26T22:32:00.125-07:00Online CoolnessArtslant -<a href="http://www.artslant.com/ew/showcases/showcase?sublist=38%5Einstallation"> 2014 3rd Round Showcase Winners, installation category</a>. In good company.<br />
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Really the first round of the 3rd out of 6 total showcase competitions this year.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-46759753670584836762014-05-16T05:58:00.000-07:002014-05-16T05:58:00.347-07:00Opening Night, The Quick and The Deep<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-33369051938887159062014-04-30T21:20:00.000-07:002014-04-30T21:22:10.809-07:00 Thinking About and Still Appreciating Last SummerLast June I was able to go the the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, VT for 2 weeks. That wasn't as long as most residents, but it was the longest break I've had seen I became a parent. The time was essential to delve into the new work I wanted to make, so different than what I had done before.<br />
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I brought along a group of works, some made as maquettes, some as wearable, others just to make. These I put on the wall, simple enough, but I don't have that kind of a wall in my studio.<br />
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I spread out all over the floor, wrestling with materials, trying and failing to see them advance into a strong enough vision. Hurray for failure, it leads to better things.<br />
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I attended a poetry reading by another resident, mid poem a powerful image flashed in my mind, something I have never experienced this way before. I ran back to the studio afterwards to make it. I was happy to share the experience with the poet. I made these<br />
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A trip to the local thrift store just days before yielded the string that these are wrapped with. The blanket was a donation I used earlier to lay my cyanotype out on the ground. I also scored a great chief's jacket and other white garments to try out an idea I had been waiting to realize. It became this, what you first see at the entrance of my show, "The Quick and The Deep".<br />
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I didn't know it at the time, but the textiles were key and continued to factor into the rest of the work, more that I ever anticipated. I also discovered beautiful blue plastic hoses, stacked coils illuminating a window of a local business. More than half a year later I called them and got some.<br />
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When I left VSC, I wasn't sure that I had "done" what I set out to do. I kicked the entire creative process, consciously and subconsciously into high gear, I failed, I meet inspiring artists, breathed in the most fragrant summer air I have yet breathed. The whole experience was glowing, essential. I am still grateful. My show opens in just over one week. Thanks for reading.<br />
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<br />Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6561257981182563448.post-74425039419738279342014-04-30T14:22:00.001-07:002014-04-30T14:22:34.043-07:00Local Coverage of upcoming Spring Exhibition<a href="http://www.nj.com/independentpress/index.ssf/2014/04/visual_arts_center_in_summit_t.html">Local coverage </a>of upcoming openings, including mine at the Visual Arts Center of NewJersey. Starting to feel real, getting excited to share with people.Thea Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13502729533215829546noreply@blogger.com0