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Biography
Timothy
J. Clark's watercolor and oil paintings are
represented in permanent museum collections
including The Butler Institute of American Art
in Youngstown, Ohio, Maine's Farnsworth Art
Museum, and the Smithsonian/National Portrait
Gallery in Washington DC. The artist's
sketchbook of drawings of Ground Zero, created at
the still-smoldering site within days of the attack,
were acquired for the collection of the Museum of
the City of New York.
A mid-career retrospective of Clark's work opened at
the Pasadena Museum of California Art in January
2008, then traveled to the Butler Institute of
American Art in Ohio in June, and to the Whistler
House Museum of Art in Lowell, Massachusetts in
August. Hammer Galleries mounted a solo exhibition
of his paintings, Sense of Solace, in New York in
January/February 2009 which was enthusiastically
reviewed by Art Times in their March 2009 issue.
In conjunction with Clark's retrospective, a book,
Timothy J. Clark, was published in January
2008 by Pomegranate Communications, and also served
as an exhibition catalog. With an introduction by
Will Barnet, a biographical essay by the noted
authority on California art and director of
California's Irvine Museum, Mr. Jean Stern, a
critical essay by renowned art historian and
award-winning author Dr. Lisa Farrington, and an
afterword by Ira Goldberg, director of the Art
Students League of New York, the book provides a
thorough review of four decades of the artist's work
including drawings, oils and watercolor paintings.
In the book, Dr. Farrington writes of Clark's
paintings as "diffidently profound documents of
human existence," and she notes his "almost uncanny
ability to infuse rudimentary and inert
objects...with something akin to a human soul."
Fine Art Connoisseur magazine featured Clark and his
work in an illustrated article "Timothy J. Clark:
Master of Color, Light, and Shadow" in the
July/August 2008 issue. An illustrated article on
Clark and his work also appeared in the October 2,
2008 issue of Coastal Journal in Maine.
Clark's recent awards include the William A. Paton
Award at the National Academy's 175th Exhibition,
the President's Award in 2003 and the Salzman Award
in 2004 in the National Arts Club's annual
exhibiting members show, and the Watercolor Award in
the Allied Artists annual exhibition in 2005, all in
New York City. He received Best of Show at the Von
Liebig Art Center's exhibition, Political Animals:
Donkeys and Elephants in American art, in Naples
Florida in 2008. Paintings by Clark have been
exhibited in international exhibitions at the Allied
Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Danubiana Museum in
Bratislava, Slovakia, and the Topkapi Museum in
Istanbul, Turkey.
A faculty member at the Art Students League in New
York, Clark has also taught at the University of
Hawaii at Hilo, the Worcester Museum of Art in
Massachusetts, the National Academy School in New
York, and Yale University's Graduate School of
Architecture's Continuity and Change Program in
Rome. He was named one of the "20 Great Teachers in
America" by Watercolor magazine in Fall 2006 and
again in 2009. He is featured in a richly
illustrated interview, "Artist to Artist," in the
Summer 2009 issue of Watercolor magazine.
Clark, a graduate of the California Institute of the
Arts and the Chouinard Art Institute, serves on the
Cal Arts Alumni Board in Valencia, California.
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Selected Comments on
Timothy J. Clark’s Work
Will Barnet, N.A., has observed, “Woven
through Timothy J. Clark’s paintings are unique
combinations of visual and emotional stimuli....His
sense of space, light and composition combine to
create graphic tensions which intrigue beyond the
beautifully-painted forms of the subjects.”
Dr. Lisa Farrington, award-winning author and
art historian, writes in Timothy J. Clark: “Clark’s
ostensibly forthright watercolors...not only are
glittering in their execution – bathed in sunlight,
swathed in shadow, shimmering with sure-handed yet
expansive and textured brushwork on papers by
Fabriano, d’Arches, and Winsor & Newton – but also
embody the postmodern concept of art-as-idea. These
are no ‘pretty pictures,’ but diffidently profound
documents of human existence.”
Donald Holden, N.A., author, editor and
artist, says, “Timothy J. Clark’s delicious
watercolors remind me of the Italian word for a
particularly fluent, graceful, and refreshing
performance in any of the arts – sprezzatura, which
means making a difficult task look effortless, like
the relaxed, soaring leap of a superb athlete who
has spent years preparing for this moment of
triumph.”
Jean Stern, Director of the Irvine Museum in
Southern California and a noted authority on
American art, has commented. “Timothy J. Clark sees
things ordinary people can’t. Clark, one of the
finest artists of this time, is among my favorite
painters. With a fidelity to his own artistic
vision, he paints in the rich traditions of Sargent
and the American Impressionists. His masterful
drawing, heightened sense of color and light , and
comprehensive compositions testify to decades of
dedication as an artist. His sensibilities range
from quiet and poetic to vigorous and emotional.”
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Recent reviews and
articles by and about Timothy J. Clark
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"Timothy J. Clark at Hammer Galleries,"
by Raymond Steiner, Art Times, Mt. Marion. NY,
March 2009
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"Artist-to-Artist," Lynne Bahr, Watercolor Magazine, New York, NY, Summer 2009 issue
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“The Vision of Timothy J. Clark,” Avery
Hunt, Special to the Coastal Journal, Fall
2008.
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“Timothy J. Clark: A
Retrospective at the Butler Institute of American
Art,” artdaily.org — The First Art newspaper on
the Net, June 19, 2008.
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“Focus on Clark,”
Calendar, Los Angeles Times, January 31, 2008 |
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“Timothy J. Clark:
Master of Color, Light, and Shadow,” Kelly Compton,
Fine Art Connoisseur, New York, July/August 2008
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"Exhibit at Keyes has
easy-to-like landscapes and people", Camille
Howell, Springfield News-Leader, Springfield,
Missouri, May 1, 2005.
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“Luminaries at the League, Now All Over Town,”
by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, September 9,
2005
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"In the Eye of an
Artist" by Richard Chang, The Orange County
Register, Santa Ana, California, September 10, 2002
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"From the Editor",
Peggy Kennedy, Victoria Magazine, NY, NY, June 2002
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"True Colors at
Meridian" by Gary Tischler, The Georgetowner,
Washington, DC, April 4, 2002
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"Painting by
Painting, Room by Room: West Bath Artist
Immortalizes Family Home" by Virginia Wright,
The Times Record, Brunswick, Maine, May 11, 2000
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"His Art and Soul"
by Brad Bonhall, The Los Angeles Times, CA, March
27, 2000.
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