Ostara

Kate Clark (b. 1972)
Kate Clark’s sculptures invite the viewer to
experience an instinctive and primal reaction,
that encourages further examination of our
own humanity. Stitched over a hand-sculpted
human face, the material quality of her ethically
sourced animal hide brings an authenticity to
the final sculpture, through what the artist
describes as a unique energy and presence.
We identify with animals through both our
connection with and separation from them.
Recognising these contradictions, Clark’s
fusion of human and animal suggests that our
human condition is fully realised only when
we acknowledge and reconcile our current
state and our natural instincts, acknowledging
the animalistic inheritance within the human
condition. She achieves this through emphasis
on the characteristics that differentiate us
from the rest of the animal kingdom, and,
importantly, the ones that unite us.
Kate Clark lives and works in Brooklyn, New
York. She attended Cornell University for her
BFA and Cranbrook Academy of Art for her
MFA and has been awarded fellowships from the
Jentel Artists Residency in Wyoming, The Fine
Arts Work Center Residency in Provincetown,
MA, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio
Program in New York. Clark was nominated
for a USA Fellowship, a Louis Comfort Tiffany
Award and an American Academy of Arts
and Letters award. She was awarded a grant
from The Virginia Groot Foundation in 2013
and a New York Foundation For the Arts
(NYFA) Fellowship Award in 2014. Clark has
exhibited in solo museum exhibitions at the
Mobile Museum of Art, The Newcomb Art
Museum and the Hilliard Museum and in group
museum exhibitions at the Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, The Islip Art Museum, and
The Bellevue Arts Museum, MOFA: Florida
State University, Cranbrook Art Museum, Frist
Center for the Visual Arts, The Winnepeg Art
Gallery, the Glenbow Museum, the Musée de
la Halle Saint Pierre, Paris, The Art Gallery at
Cleveland State University, the Hudson Valley
Center for Contemporary Art, the Nevada
Museum of Art, the David Winton Bell Gallery
at Brown University, the Bemis Center for
Contemporary Arts, the Biggs Museum of
American Art, the Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology, and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Her work is collected internationally and is in
public collections such as the JP Morgan Chase
Art Collection, the 21c Collection, the David
Roberts Art Foundation and the C-Collection
in Switzerland. Clark’s sculptures have been
featured in the Wall Street Journal, New
York Times, New York Magazine, Art21:Blog,
The Village Voice, PAPERmag, The Atlantic,
Hyperallergic, NYArts, Huffington Post, Hi
Fructose, the BBC World News Brazil, Hey!
Magazine, Time Out, ID Paris, Cool Hunting,
Wallpaper, Creators Project/VICE, Sculpture
Review and many other publications.
In addition she was filmed by National
Geographic in her studio over a 2 month
period for a short documentary about her work.
Entangled
mixed media sculpture, 220 x 208 x 81 cm
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