Anita Clearfield

Come back, dear Viewer,
I'm watching you, friend,
from inside my art.
See the body?
I make art so I can figure out
what I'm made of:
slouch of shoulder.
rising color.
fractured light.

Go ahead, laugh; there's irony in my taking bodies apart --
call it video, paint, or installation -
your reaction is what pulls the pieces together again.
Like Frankensteins, my creations wait
for the lightening of your gaze,
resurrected by the Unknown Viewer.

B.F.A., film, magna cum laude, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
M.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA

2013 Solo Exhibition: "Now You See It, Now You..." University of New England -- Biddeford, ME
2013 ‘Area Artists 2013 Biennial,” Jurors Dan Mills/Gail Skudera,
Atrium Gallery, USM-Lewiston, ME
2012 “Ground Control” showing video “Sand” (co-creator Geoffrey Leighton),
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
2012 “Figure Revealed IV,” Joel Babb/James Strickland Jurors, USM-Lewiston
2012 “Anita Clearfield: Dappled,” Forage Market, Lewiston, ME.
2012 “In the Spirit of Carlo Pittore,” Susan Drucker, curator,
Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, ME.
2012 “Corrugated Nation,” Martha Piscuskas curator, Waterfall Arts, Belfast
2011 “Assorted in Philadelphia,” Natasha Mel-Taylor curator, a large space
gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 “Momento Mori,” EL Putnam curator; Mobius Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2011 “ArtinMe,” Maine statewide exhibition, Juror: Lois Dodd, Boothbay, ME
2011 “MFAWC,” Provincetown Art Assoc. & Museum, Provincetown, MA
2011 “Boston Young Contemporaries,” 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 “Video Party,” Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA