Unsettling Portraits and Art Furniture

Clark’s paintings are highly colored and deceptively naïve. Although in the modernist tradition following Cézanne, they are deliberately quirky, some grotesque.

His limited palette of intense pure colors both unifies and further enlivens his images.

There is a tribal existential depth to these sketch-like portraits. Some subjects seem perky and assertive, others withdrawn and fragile. Some are inwardly composed and others disturbingly anxious and troubled. The portraits reveal the individuality, varying moods and states of mind of these young people.