LARK
Lark emerged in Los Angeles as a student of Kiki, a tutelage reflected in her current semi-abstract landscapes and other paintings. She began as a collagist and assemblagist, however, in response as much to the European "tradition" of collage as to Kiki’s informel abstraction. (She became aware of California assemblage after exhibiting her own.) The found-object works Lark produced in the 1990s and into the new century – mainly uniplanar compositions hung on the wall (and even framed) – mimic the elaborate, architectonic language of historical Russian constructivism, but leave evident the original function of the assemblaged elements, in a nod to Dada, Pop Art, and the Russian equivalent, Sots Art. For all her references to the mundane world of commercial objects and images, Lark maintains strong, dramatic structures in her compositions, often focused on circular or spiralic forms. Peter Frank
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