Art Works of
Ed Clark

Edward Clark is an abstract painter whose work has drawn accolades internationally for five decades. He is also known for his powerful brush stroke, large-scale canvases, and especially, his use of color, which makes some people call him an "Abstract Impressionist" as well as a "Painterly Abstractionist".

Born in New Orleans in 1926, Ed Clark studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1947 to 1951 and L'Academie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris in 1952. However, the young Clark's work was most strongly influenced by Nicolas de Staël's paintings.

After living for five years in Paris, Clark returned to New York and became a charter member of the Brata gallery on Tenth Street, where a fellow artist, Al Held, was shown. It was during this period that he made his celebrated shaped canvas, first appeared in the Brata gallery Christmas group show in 1957. The painting was later to be described in a 1972 Art News article by a critic,

Lawrence Campbell as generally considered to be the first of its kind. Another early shaped painting made by Clark in 1957 is now in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. Clark made his first oval painting while living in Vétheuil , France (early home of Claude Monet) in 1968. This was almost a decade after Clark first started using his push broom technique, which allows him to move paint swiftly across the canvas, creating broad bold strokes.

Clark has always been an inventive and creative artist, experimenting with techniques—his innovative use of the push broom, for example, and his method of working on paper with dry pigment, inspired by the "pouring sand" technique of the Pueblo tribe of the American Southwest.

His work continues to evolve and astonish.

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Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation "art for life" Honored Artist
Sponsor: Russell Simons East Hampton, NY
Detroit Art Institute "Bal African '99" Honored Artist
Joan Mitchell Awards
Congressional Achievement Award
Master Award, National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
Adolph Gottlieb Award
C.A.P.S. Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts, Painting
"Prix d'othon Friesz" Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Musee du Louvre Paris
Selected Exhibitions:
"Quiet as it's Kept" Christine Koenig Gallery Vienna, Austria
A Special Preview of Edward Clark's Recent Works: From Sicily to Egypt
The Launching of the Book "Edward Clark: for the sake of the search"
Loida Nicolas Lewis & TLC Beatrice International; Cinque Gallery; New York, NY
"Sweeps&Views; Clark & Cowans" Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Studio Museum in Harlem; Belleville Lake Press; Carver Federal Saving Bank.
New York, NY
G.R. N'Namdi Gallery, Birmingham, MI
A.F.T.U. Bill Hodges Gallery, New York, NY
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Alitash Kebede Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Wilmer Jennings Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Resche, Paris, France
Spiral Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Isobel Neal Gallery, Chicago, IL
FIAC, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Gallery Kesser-Bohbot, Hamburg, Germany
Manhattan East Gallery of Fine Arts, New York, NY
Alitash Kebede Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Gallery 54, New York, NY
Retrospective, "Paris to New York, 1966-1986"
Randall Gallery, New York, NY
Citicorp Center, New York, NY
Jazzonia Gallery, Detroit, MI
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC
Randall Gallery, New York, NY
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Peg Alston Arts, New York, NY
Sullivant Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
James Yu Gallery, New York, NY
South Houston Gallery, New York, NY
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Lehman College, New York, NY 141 Prince Street, New York, NY
Donald Judd's Loft, New York, NY
American Embassy, Paris, France
Galerie Creuze, Paris, France
Brata Gallery, New York, NY
YMCA, Chicago,IL