Tony Clark
I am a painter/collageist/printmaker and - for the past twenty years, an artist working in Healthcare. Deeply committed to the belief in the restorative qualities of art, I've seen the very positive effects of working on art and it's effect on the artist - as well as on the viewer. In my own artwork, I use layers of image to create what we have around us at all times - overlays and multiple images: "At all times there are competitions in what we see, and seldom do we see one thing, without another's influence. I try to fuse together the multiples"... My work has been used in 'The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen' (Exile Editions), has been exhibited at The National Arts Centre, and in numerous exhibitions in Toronto and Ottawa, most recently (Sept.-Oct. 2011), in the juried show at Orange Gallery Ottawa: Figureworks.
Beyond this -- and beyond an all embracing love for and wonder at the work of Frida Kahlo – I believe in art as something historically finished: so I post-modernly “appropriate” other artists’ styles – Kahlo, Klimt, Warhol, Fra Angelico, and others - in homage but also, I think, in humour.
I collage / build new images from old, incorporating other images, words, phrases, poems. What I do crosses over into photography - mixing it with painting.
...It’s all playing and at the heart of all play is what defines us and gives us ourselves.
Biography:
- Born in Toronto , BA in Fine Art and English Lit. at U of T. Bachelor of Education at Ottawa U.
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Exhibited at U of T, 80 Spadina, Goethe Institute, Toronto, numerous times at Cube Gallery Ottawa
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Creative Arts Instructor at the Perley Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre, Ottawa.
- Exhibited at National Arts Center Ottawa,
- Work included in 'The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen (Exile Editions) Toronto