Sonya Clark
art news: September -
October 2010
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 Greetings!
My
work is going in every direction. Geographically, that is. So if
you are in or going to be out west in California, up north in Massachusetts,
in the middle (Nebraska or Wisconsin) or across the Atlantic in
the United Kingdom, maybe you can see some of my work and
say hello. It gets out and about more than I do sometimes.
I will be live and in person to give some artist lectures at
Cornell, Syracuse and Oregon College of Art and Craft + Pacific
Northwest College of Art this fall. So if you are in Oregon or New
York, maybe our paths will cross at one of those. All the details
are below.
My best,
Sonya
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| Exhibitions |
OPENING SOON
Exhibit: NEW MATERIAL WORLD: RETHREADING TECHNOLOGY
When: October 8 - January 2, 2011
Where: Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln,
Nebraska
"From
manipulating old techniques in new ways to coupling new tools and
digital processes with traditional methods, this work explores what
it means to be an artist integrating such approaches in the 21st
century. Participating artists: Lyn Carter, Kyoung Ae Cho (1997
Lillian Elliott Awardee), Sonya
Clark (2000 LEA), Ishida Tomoko Hashimoto (1998 LEA), Kyoko
Kumai, Cat Mazza, Janice Lessman-Moss, Geraldine Ondrizek, Jessica
Smith and Grethe
Sorensen."
Exhibit: TAKING TIME: CRAFT AND THE SLOW
REVOLUTION
When: October 11 - November
22
Where: University of Hertfordshire Galleries,
Hatfield Road, St. Albans, United
Kingdom
I have a
couple of pieces included in this traveling exhibit that is touring
the United Kingdom including a 10 foot tall beaded ladder that took
120 hours to create. This exhibit curated by Helen Carnac,
explores "the relationship between contemporary craft and the new
popular Slow Movement." The exhibit includes artists from Britain,
Germany, Holland, Israel, and the USA. It is about to close in
Ireland (see
below.)
CONTINUING...
through September
25
Exhibit: TAKING TIME: CRAFT AND THE SLOW
REVOLUTION
Where: Millenium Court Arts Centre. William
Street, Portadown, Northern
Ireland
If you miss
it in Ireland and are able, do try to see the
exhibit at the venue
above.If neither
is a possibility check out
theblog
through
January 21,
2011
Exhibit:
MAMI WATA: Arts
for Water
Spirits
Where: Cantor Arts Center, Stanford
University, Palo Alto, California
This is the last venue for this exhibit Dr. Henry Drewal curated
of works about water spirits in Africa and the African Diaspora.
The contemporary artists in this exhibit include Alison Saar,
Claudette Schreuders, Bolaji Campbell, Twin Seven-Seven, Sonya Clark, and Moyo Ogundipe.
Holland Cotter wrote a great review of the exhibit in the New York
Times.
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February 6, 2011
Exhibit: NEW MATERIALITY - Digital Dialogues at the
Boundaries of Craft
Fuller Museum,
Brockton, Massachusetts
The
artists in this exhibit curated by Fo Wilson "use new technologies
in tandem with traditional craft materials - clay, glass, wood,
fiber and metal - to forge new artist directions." The exhibiting
artists are Brian Boldon, Shaun Bullens, Lia Cook, Susan Working
and E.G. Crichton, Donald Fortescue and Lawrence LaBianca, Wendy
Maruyama, Christy Matson, Cat Mazza, Nathalie Miebach, Mike
Simonian and Maaike Evers (Mike and Maaike), Sonya Clark, Tim Tate, and Mark
Zirpel
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July 10, 2011
Exhibit: TRUE SELF: The Search for Identity in Modern and
Contemporary Art
Madison Museum of Contemporary
Art, Madison, Wisconsin
"True Self
explores the ways artists have understood and conveyed the essence
of the self--through facial expression, body language, dress, and
the particulars of setting--in a selection of paintings, sculpture,
prints, and photographs. Drawn from MMoCA's permanent collection,
the exhibition lists a broad range of artists, including Thomas
Hart Benton, Sonya Clark,
Chuck Close, John Coplans, K�the Kollwitz, Alfred Leslie, Diego
Rivera, Cindy Sherman, Hollis Sigler, Raphael Soyer, and Ida
Wyman."
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| Visiting Artist
Lectures |
Cornell University, Ithaca, New
York: September 13 @ 3 pm
Syracuse University,
Syracuse, New York: September 14 @ 6 pm
Oregon College of Art and
Craft, Portland, Oregon: October 14-15, TBA
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Some background
information
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I'm chair of the Department of Craft/Material
Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the
Arts in Richmond, Virginia. Prior to this I was a Baldwin
Bascom Professor of Creative Arts at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. I went to Cranbrook Academy of Art for my MFA,
the Art Institute of Chicago for my BFA, and before that, Amherst
College for a BA in psychology. My work has been exhibited in
over 200 venues in the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa,
Canada, Taiwan, Austria, Australia, Ghana, France, Switzerland, and
throughout the USA. I have been able to pursue my
studio practice because of generous honors and opportunities such
as a Pollock-Krasner Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Residency in
Italy, a Red Gate Residency in China, a Virginia Commission for the
Arts Fellowship, and a Smithsonian Artist Research
Fellowship.
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