M. Clark

I gravitate toward gold, copper, and silver foils because of their reflectivity. I love anticipating how light will reflect off of the foil on a finished piece, allowing one to see something new each time they approach the same artwork. Metal foils are timeless and substantive; they have been around for centuries. Their neutral palette allows my focus to stay on composition, texture, and light rather than color.

The innovative technique I developed to apply metal foil to 2-dimensional surfaces is derived from a printing process and is something I’ve refined over many years to create large-scale, textural, wall-mounted pieces.

My artwork is made in numerous stages across multiple months. With a general composition in mind, I produce something, then react to the first effort by altering the materials or rethinking the composition. I get into a state of flow where the medium is giving me directions for where the next stroke should go, like an intuitive logic for what elements need to be happening. The process is iterative; a compositional puzzle.

As a dyslexic, written communication falls short of an adequate form of expression. It has a finality and definitive quality that is constraining. Because of this belief, my work aims to ...

Bachelor of Fine Art, Graphic Design from Brigham Young University

Select Exhibitions:

2024 | Aqua Art Miami | Mazlish Gallery | Miami, FL

2024 | Empowerment | Mazlish Gallery | New York, NY

2024 | Expressions Of Abstraction | The Savoy Hotel | London, UK
Curated by Russell Sage Studio, A Space For Art + Off Shoot Arts

2023 | Art Palm Beach | Gallery Elim | Palm Beach, FL

2023 | LA Art Show | Gallery Elim | Los Angeles, CA

2022 | Rewind & Reflect | Blue Gallery | New York, NY | Curated by Amit Vaidya and Mekia Machine

2022 | 2D x 3D = Boundless, NY x LA = Infinite | One Art Space | New York, NY | Curated by Grace Yeonsook Ji

2022 | K-Art | Artego | Seoul, Korea

2022 | Spring Salon | Grogan Gallery | Houston, TX

2021 | Supernova | Grogan Gallery | Houston, TX

2021 | Art + Design Market | Morton Contemporary | Southampton, NY

2021 | The Other Art Fair | Saatchi Art | New York, NY

2021 | Untitled | Morton Contemporary | Philadelphia, PA

2021 | Solo Exhibition: Collide | Color Copies Gallery | Haus Salon | Minneapolis, MN

2021 | The Language of Color | Gallery Elim | New York, NY

2021 | Renewal | Mazlish Gallery | New York, NY

2020 | Solo Exhibition: Equanimity | The Yard: Bryant Park | New York, NY

2020 | Complexity | Simplicity | Arte Collective | Design Center of the Americas Da...