Carey Clark
Painter:
Working between the intersections of community engagement/ theater set design/ and painting, my work takes on many forms in response. Between 2012 and 2018 my work explored video projections over painted surfaces, giving a certain movement to the stillness of painting. Since then, in a desire to get back to painting and with a prospect of a show in Paris that cannot accommodate video projections, I fall back on my rusty painting skills. In this process, I have found myself seeking a way of rendering in painting the translucency and overlapping layers of this previous body of work. The subject is found in making portraits of people around me and picturing their psychic landscape, through their geographies and a more interior mapping with ideas like guessing at spirit animals and other conversations.
Visual Arts Director:
At THE POINT for over 25 years, is a painter by background with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Through a Creative Stations Grant from the Metropolitan Transit Authority in 1989, she made 100 feet of murals at Yankee Stadium’s 4-line platform and mezzanine. The experience of working collaboratively in public art and as set designer in theater has led to commitment to make a “theater” of painting where artists of all ages and professional artists, participate in a grass roots scene where a work of art becomes not just an end in itself, but an integral force in creating community - through shared imagination. Clark has developed a visual arts program at THE POINT located in Hunts Point and the South Bronx, New York - that is a venue for local and visiting artists, students to make, show, and sell their works in the context of workshops conducted by visiting artists, exhibitions, and public art. She oversees The Village of Murals, a POINT urban design initiative that seeks to create humane pathways through the industrial neighborhoods of The Hunts Point peninsula. Most notably, Clark has directed several major commissions by local industries, Sims Metal Management and McInnis Cement, which employed some 50 artists, and a large number of students. These projects were complex public/private partnerships which have provided over 600 running feet of murals/green walls and artist-designed concrete benches along a 700 foot long riverside pathway dedicated to the community by McInnis Cement.
Founder of Q Art Co:
An art services company that provides picture framing, installations, and archiving services to artists, galleries and museums.