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Cosmic Connections: The Metaphysical Practice of Kirk Clark

Saturday January 25, 2020

Cosmic Connections: The Metaphysical Practice of Kirk Clark
January 25 – July 5, 2020

The International Museum of Art and Science is proud to present this retrospective exhibition of the artworks produced by Kirk Clark. Throughout a sixty year period, Mr. Clark has engaged in a life long practice of art making as well as collecting an enviable body of work. He has been a prolific artist by any measure having created over a thousand mono-prints, hundreds of paintings and dozens of sculptures and other artworks in various media. Having initially trained as an undergraduate in Fine Art at the University of New Mexico where he studied under the tutelage of sculptors Charles Madox, Steve Dubove and William Goodman, Kirk Clark has continued to seek out instruction from highly skilled craftspersons throughout his six decade long career and has worked collaboratively with such illustrious artists as print makers Michael Vigil and Shinzaburo Takeda as well as painters and sculptors Thom Wheeler, Jonathan Sobol and (Enrique Carbajal González) Sebastían.

Kirk Clark has pursued an artistic practice founded in the metaphysical principles of Wassily Kandinsky and has primarily worked in a style that is informed by Abstract Expressionism. Yet rather than simply being derivative, Clark has expanded upon mid-Century Formalism in a manner that is both innovative and authentic. His expansive body of work demonstrates his restlessness and his reluctance to merely repeat an idea from season to season. Over time, the progression in his priorities and techniques for exploration and expression is clearly evident while a consistency of identifiable hand is visible throughout. Informed by his own synesthesia as well as his meditative practice, Clark’s artworks are created spontaneously with a stream of consciousness that reflects his understanding of cosmic harmonies and rhythms of the universe. The notion of transcendence is central to his process and to a fuller appreciation of his artworks which carry cosmological narratives that extend beyond their formal design. They are records of transcendent phenomena that are visual analogues which reveal universal relationships between chaotic forces and corporeal experience. Ultimately, such artworks defy comprehensive description and are conceived to be experienced subjectively as oracles for personal illumination.



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Location: International Museum of Art & Science (IMAS); 1900 Nolana; McAllen, TX
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