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John Carke: A Is For Always
Sohn Fine Art is pleased to present "A is for Always", an exhibition of mixed media by Berkshire-based artist John Clarke. Hanging one visual language on the balance of another, Clarke's work combines photography, painting, writing and classical music. The show features Clarke's paintings, including his last remining "Alina" abstracts, works from his ongoing "Bridge" series of mixed-media photography, his "Drawing on Memory" series and new paintings. The exhibit shows the arc of his career and explorations as an artist. This exhibition, "A is for Always", draws on the building blocks of our ability to communicate through words. "A" begins the alphabet and our learned ability to relate to one another through words. "A" also represents simplicity - as easy as ABC. "A" is also the first letter of the word always. In Clarke's words, "My life over the past five years began with and continues to revolve around the word always. Something that doesn't fade over time and has been there for as long as you care to look back and will remain no mutter what."
John Clarke has lived in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts since 2007. He was born in central Massachusetts around a landscape of mills, rivers, trains and bridges, which greatly inform his work Clarke received his degree in classical music composition from Bates College in Maine.
Clarke merges a range of mediums that include paint, pastel, gesso, pencil, photography and music. Melodious and articulate, Clarke's work draws on his background as a classical composer. His lines and symbols are directed by music as they float and interact in the spaces of his images. One of his first bodies of work was inspired by a neoclassical piece of music, Alina, by the Estonian composer Arvo Part. His Alina series exemplifies his style and use of color, line, and shape. At the time, an article in Rural Intelligence called him a "multimedia abstract master."
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Sohn Fine Art is pleased to present "A is for Always", an exhibition of mixed media by Berkshire-based artist John Clarke. Hanging one visual language on the balance of another, Clarke's work combines photography, painting, writing and classical music. The show features Clarke's paintings, including his last remining "Alina" abstracts, works from his ongoing "Bridge" series of mixed-media photography, his "Drawing on Memory" series and new paintings. The exhibit shows the arc of his career and explorations as an artist. This exhibition, "A is for Always", draws on the building blocks of our ability to communicate through words. "A" begins the alphabet and our learned ability to relate to one another through words. "A" also represents simplicity - as easy as ABC. "A" is also the first letter of the word always. In Clarke's words, "My life over the past five years began with and continues to revolve around the word always. Something that doesn't fade over time and has been there for as long as you care to look back and will remain no mutter what."
John Clarke has lived in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts since 2007. He was born in central Massachusetts around a landscape of mills, rivers, trains and bridges, which greatly inform his work Clarke received his degree in classical music composition from Bates College in Maine.
Clarke merges a range of mediums that include paint, pastel, gesso, pencil, photography and music. Melodious and articulate, Clarke's work draws on his background as a classical composer. His lines and symbols are directed by music as they float and interact in the spaces of his images. One of his first bodies of work was inspired by a neoclassical piece of music, Alina, by the Estonian composer Arvo Part. His Alina series exemplifies his style and use of color, line, and shape. At the time, an article in Rural Intelligence called him a "multimedia abstract master."
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