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Ed Clark (*1926), one of the most important artists of the New York School, produced abstract paintings of extraordinary beauty and significance. Clark developed new approaches to painting such as using everyday objects and physical activities such as sweeping with a broom in the production of paintings to produce large, controlled strokes over a canvas on the floor or fabricating shaped paintings, on his works on paper pigments are disbursed and layered among pastose applications of paint. Mixing and layering rich hues in varying consistencies and forms, Clark’s work incorporates color, light, texture, and movement in gestural forms ranging from explosive to subtle at the same time.

Clark’s works are included in the collections of many major institutions and museums, including the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Ed Clark (*1926), einer der bedeutendsten Künstler der New Yorker Schule, produzierte abstrakte Gemälde von außergewöhnlicher Schönheit und Bedeutung. Clark entwickelte neue Ansätze für die Malerei wie die Verwendung von alltäglichen Gegenständen und körperlicher Aktivitäten wie das Kehren mit einem Besen in der Herstellung von Gemälden. Auf dem Boden zog er breite Farbspuren über eine Leinwand oder fertigte kreisförmige oder ovale Gemälde, strahlende Pigmente wurden im Wechsel mit pastosen Aufträgen auf Papier gerieben, Durch das Ziehen, Mischen und Schichten von reichen Farbtönen in unterschiedlichen Konsistenzen und Formen, erscheint in Clarks Arbeiten Farbe, Licht, Textur und Bewegung in explosiven und subtilen Formen.

Clarks Arbeiten sind in den Sammlungen vieler großer Institutionen und Museen vertreten, darunter in dem Detroit Institute, dem Art Institute of Chicago und dem Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Ed Clark (*1926), one of the most important artists of the New York School, produced abstract paintings of extraordinary beauty and significance. Clark developed new approaches to painting such as using everyday objects and physical activities such as sweeping with a broom in the production of paintings to produce large, controlled strokes over a canvas on the floor or fabricating shaped paintings, on his works on paper pigments are disbursed and layered among pastose applications of paint. Mixing and layering rich hues in varying consistencies and forms, Clark’s work incorporates color, light, texture, and movement in gestural forms ranging from explosive to subtle at the same time.

Clark’s works are included in the collections of many major institutions and museums, including the Detroit Institute of the Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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Ed Clark

Ed Clark (*1926), einer der bedeutendsten Künstler der New Yorker Schule, produzierte abstrakte Gemälde von außergewöhnlicher Schönheit und Bedeutung. Clark entwickelte neue Ansätze für die Malerei wie die Verwendung von alltäglichen Gegenständen und körperlicher Aktivitäten wie das Kehren mit einem Besen in der Herstellung von Gemälden. Auf dem Boden zog er breite Farbspuren über eine Leinwand oder fertigte kreisförmige oder ovale Gemälde, strahlende Pigmente wurden im Wechsel mit pastosen Aufträgen auf Papier gerieben, Durch das Ziehen, Mischen und Schichten von reichen Farbtönen in unterschiedlichen Konsistenzen und Formen, erscheint in Clarks Arbeiten Farbe, Licht, Textur und Bewegung in explosiven und subtilen Formen.

Clarks Arbeiten sind in den Sammlungen vieler großer Institutionen und Museen vertreten, darunter in dem Detroit Institute, dem Art Institute of Chicago und dem Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Ed Clark

Born 1926 in New Orleans, United States.
Lives and works in New York.

Solo Exhibitions (selected)

• 2018

  Ed Clark, A Survey, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, United States

• 2017

  Ed Clark , Weiss Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Edward Clark: Paintings, Tilton Gallery, New York, United States

• 2016

  Ed Clark: Locomotion, N’namdi Contemporary, Miami, United States
  Ed Clark, N’namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, United States

• 2014

  Big Bang, Tilton Gallery, New York, United States

• 2013

  Ed Clark, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States
  Le Mouvement: The Ed Clark Retrospective, N’Namdi Contemporary, Miami,
  United States

• 2012

  Louisiana Roots: Ed Clark Returns Home, Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans,
  United States

• 2011

  2011 The Search, The N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, United States

• 2007

  Ed Clark: For the Sake of the Search, 60 Year Retrospective, Pensacola
  Museum of Art, Pensacola, United States

• 2004

  Ed Clark: Recent Paris – New York Series, Parish Gallery, Washington, United States

• 2003

  Ed Clark, Paris/New York: Le Mouvement, G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, United States

• 2001

  Ed Clark: Mexican Series, Peg Alston Fine Art, New York, United States

• 1998

  Edward Clark: From Sicily to Egypt, Cinque Gallery, New York, United States

• 1993

  Ed Clark: Paris Series 1982 to 1992, Alitash Kebede Fine Arts, Los Angeles, United States

• 1992

  Ed Clark, Wilmer Jennings Gallery, Kenkeleba House, New York, United States

• 1991

  Ed Clark: Paris, Galerie Resche, Paris, France

• 1990

  Ed Clark, Spiral Gallery, Brooklyn, United States
  Ed Clark, Isobel Neal Gallery, Chicago, United States

• 1989

  Ed Clark, Gallery Kesser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany

• 1988

  Ed Clark: Bahia Series, Manhattan East Gallery of Fine Arts, New York, United States

• 1987

  Ed Clark, Alitash Kebede Fine Arts, Los Angeles, United States
  Ed Clark, Gallery 54, New York, United States

• 1983

  Ed Clark, Randall Gallery, New York, United States

• 1982

  Ed Clark, Jazzonia Gallery, Detroit, United States

• 1981

  Ed Clark, Citicorp Center, New York, United States
  Edward Clark: Martinique Interlude, Paintings and Pastels, Randall Gallery, New York, United States

• 1980

  Ed Clark, A Complex Identity, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, United States
  Ed Clark, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, United States
  Ed Clark, TH.C. Taylor Gallery, North Carolina A&T State University,
  Greensboro, United States

• 1979

  Ed Clark, Randall Gallery, New York, United States

• 1978

  Ed Clark, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States

• 1976

  Ed Clark, Sullivant Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, United States

• 1975

  Ed Clark, James Yu Galler, New York, United States

• 1974

  Ed Clark: New Paintings and Drawings, South Houston Gallery, New York, United States

• 1971

  Ed Clark, Donald Judd’s Loft, New York, United States

• 1969

  Ed Clark, American Embassy, Paris, France

• 1966

  Clark, Galerie R. Creuze, Paris, France

• 1958

  Ed Clark, Brata Gallery, New York, United States

• 1956

  Clark: Peintures, Galerie R. Creuze, Paris, France

• 1955

  Clark: Peintures, Galerie R. Creuze, Paris, France

• 1951

  Ed Clark, YMCA, Chicago, United States

Group Exhibitions (selected)

2018

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States
The Long Run, Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States
Painting: Now & Forever, Part III, Greene Naftali, Matthew Marks, New York, United States
In Tribute to Jack Tilton: A Selection from 35 Years, Tilton Gallery, New York, United States
The Language of Abstraction, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, United States

• 2017

  Impulse, Pace Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  Inventing Downtown, Grey Art Gallery, New York, United States

• 2014

  Prospect: Notes for Now, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, United States
  A Thousand Lights of Sun, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles, United States

• 2012

  Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, United States
  Blues for Smoke, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States
  The Lure of Paris, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, United States

• 2011

  Beyond Black: Ed Clark, Eugene Martin, John T. Scott, Shaw Center for the
  Arts, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States

• 2010

  African American Abstract Masters, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, United States
  Flow, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, United States

• 2009

  Masters for the First Family: Parish Gallery, Parish Gallery, Washington, United States
  Wiser Than God, BLT, New York, United States

• 2007

  NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, United States

• 2004

  Something to Look Forward To, The Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin &
  Marshall College, Lancaster, United States

• 2003

  A Century of Collecting: African American Art in the Art Institute of Chicago,
  The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States

• 2002

  Quiet as it’s Kept, Christine Koenig Gallery, Vienna, Austria
  No Greater Love: Abstraction, Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, United States

• 1997

  Sweeps & Views: Clark & Cowans, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, United States

• 1996

  Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965,
  The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, United States

• 1995

  Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, The Whitney Museum of
  American Art,New York, United States

• 1994

  Symphony, A.F.T.U./Bill Hodgesork, New York, United States

• 1986

  Paris to New York, 1966-1986, G.R., Birmingham, United States

• 1980

  Black Artists: Abstractions, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Institute for Art
  and Urban Resources, Long Island City, United States

• 1973

  The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States

• 1970

  Afro-American Artists: New York and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States

• 1956

  Salon des Independants, Paris, France

• 1954

  Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris, France

• 1952

  Société du Salon d’Automne, Paris, France

Education

• 1953

  L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris, France

• 1951

  The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States

Prizes, Grants and Residencies

• 2013

  Legends and Legacy Award, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States

• 2000

  Featured Artist, Art for Life Gala, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, East
  Hampton, United States

• 1990

  Honoree, 36th Annual Bal Africain, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, United States

• 1988

  Painters and Sculptors Grant Recipient, The Joan Mitchell Foundation, New
  York, United States

• 1994

  Congressional Achievement Award, United States

• 1985

  Award in Painting, National Endowment for the Arts, United States

• 1981

  Individual Support Grant, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New
  York, United States

• 1975

  CAPS Grant, Creative Artists Program Services, New York State Council on
  the Arts, United States

• 1972

  Award in Painting, National Endowment for the Arts, United States

• 1955

  Prix d’Othon Friesz, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée du Louvre, Paris,
  France

Collections

Bibliography

• 2017

  “Ed Clark at Weiss Berlin, Berlin” Mousse Magazine September 29, 2017
  Elderton, Louisa. “Ed Clark” Artforum September 22, 2017
  Kherbek, William. “Ed Clark/Weiss Gallery, Berlin” Samizdat September 24, 2017
  Scheder, Beate. “Die Farben fegen: Ed Clarks Malerei bei Weiss” Taz.Die Tageszeitung September 7, 2017
  John Yau. “The Second Generation Abstract Expressionist Ed Clark” Hyperallergic, January 29, 2017

• 2014

  Rachel L. Swarns, “As a Painter Grows Older, His Creativity Endures”
  New York Times, February 23, 2014.
  Canavan, Gillian. “Ed Clark: Big Bang” Spike Magazine, 2014.
  John Yau. “A History Waiting To Be Written: Ed Clark’s High-Spirited, Abstract Paintings” Hyperallergic, January 26, 2014

• 2013

  Edwards, Jeff,“The Long Sweep. A Conversation with Ed Clark about His 60-Plus Years in the Art World,” Art Pulse Magazine, 2013

• 2012

  Bond-Louden, Jenna,“Ed Clark: Master of Abstract Expressionism,” Ebony, July, 2012

• 2011

  Bechet, Ron,“Artist on Artist: Ron Bechet on Ed Clark,“ Pelican Bomb, 2011

• 2003

  Hawkins, Margart, Art News, May, 2003

• 2002

  Jacques, Geoffrey,“Quiet as it’s Kept,“ May, 2002

• 1997

  Cavaliere, Barbara and George R. N’namdi eds. “Edward Clark: For the Sake of the Search,” Belleville Lake, MI: Belleville Lake Press, 1997
  Feldman, Anita,“Ed Clark and the Abstract Shaped Canvas: A Memoir From Edward Clark: for the Sake of the Search,“ 1997
  Joans,Ted,“Ed Clark and I,“ From Edward Clark: for the Sake of the Search, 1997
  Holg, Garret, “Ed Alert,” Chicago Sun Times, Sep 28, 1997
  Robins, Corinne,“Ed Clark: The Fulfillment of a ‘Grand’ Talent,” 1997

• 1996

  Mercer, Valerie, “Exploration in the City of Light,” 1996

• 1990

  Jones, Kellie, Art Space Catalogue, 1990

• 1987

  Loughery,John, “Review: Gallery Art 54,” Arts, April 1987

• 1981

  Wilson, Judith, “Edward Clark: Directions,” Art in America,1981

• 1980

  Feldman, Anita, “Ed Clark: A Complex Identity,”Feature article from Studio Museum Retrospective Catalogue, 1980
  Schmidt-Campbell, Mary, “Catalogue of Ed Clark’s first museum retrospective, 1980
  Kingsley, April, “Edward Clark’s Luminous Expanses,” American Rag, 1980
  Schneider, Pierre, “Trois Americains peintres et noirs,” L’Express, 1980

• 1978

  Andrews, Benny, “Edward Clark: Still Sweeps Them off Their Feet,”Encore America & Worldwide News, 1978

• 1973

  Robins, Corinne, “Edward Clark: Push-Broom and Canvas,”Art International, 1973

• 1972

  Campbell. Lawrence, Art News,1972

• 1966

  Kenedy, R.C., “Paris Letter,” Art International,1966

• 1955

  Conil-Lecoste, Michel, Galerie R. Creuze Catalogue, Paris,
  May 1955

• 1954

  Conil-Lecoste, Michel, Le Monde, Paris, March 12, 1954