MIRANDA KAYE CLARK
SELECTED WORKS 2015-2020
SEEING DOUBLE
Solo Exhibition
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March - November 2020
LIMEN
Solo Exhibition
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August - October 2019
BELONG
Public Art
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June - September 2020
WEST BOTTOMS REBORN
Public Art
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August - October 2019
TO CUT - A SOLID
Workshop
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May 29 - June 2, 2018
MAPS & MEMORY FINDING
Personal Project
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2015 - 2017
65518
Collaborative Exhibition
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September 2, 2016
PASSAGE
Commission April 2020
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Image: NEW WINDOW, H48” x L38” x D3.5”, Poplar and Interior Paint 4
Image: REMAINING THREADS, H36” x L36” x D4.5”, Poplar and Interior Paint
SEEING DOUBLE Objective: Create a series of new work for Farina— a gallery and restaurant in Kansas City, MO Date: March - November 2020 Project type: Solo Exhibition Outcome: A series of eight wall sculptures abstracting the doorway to understand the construction of memory
Image: I created sketches with washi tape to allow color and composition to evolve together
Image: Washi tape sketch
Image: Three-way miter joint 6
Image: Complete doorway
Image: AN ANSWER TO AN OLD QUESTION, H48” x L55”’ x D3.5”, Poplar and Interior Paint 7
SEEING DOUBLE Exhibition view at Farina Kansas City, MO 2020
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From the artist statement: “The series “Seeing Double” specifically explores the construction of a doorway. Each sculpture is derived from the post and lintel structure to represent one of the thousands of thresholds we cross physically and emotionally in a lifetime. Two straight lines connected by a horizontal line establishes our first relationship to architecture. Doorways are the path to the spaces that shape who we are: homes, college apartments, offices, cityscapes...”
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Image: Scan from sketchbook and notes from Shadows of the Sublime chapter in Shadow-Makers by Stephen Kite
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Image: Sketchbook drawing where I begin to layer color and concepts
LIMEN Objective: Create a series of models to conceptually and compositionally explore the post and lintel structure Date: August - October 2019 Project type: Solo Exhibition Outcome: A series of eight models presented as my second solo exhibition titled LIMEN on view at HNTB, an architecture firm, in Kansas City, MO
Image: Each composition abstracts a doorway (dashed) , ground plane (green), and the pathway through the space (orange)
Image: Preliminary sketch
Image: Stereotomical drawing 12
Image: In-process rotated hip
Image: HINGE, H15” x L17.5” x D9”, Poplar and Interior Paint 13
Image: REFLECT, H14” x L12” x D13”, Poplar and Interior Paint 14
Image: TRANSITION, H17” x L19” x D10”, Poplar and Interior Paint 15
Image: RIGHT, H24” x L24” x D12”, Poplar and Interior Paint 16
LIMEN Exhibition view at HNTB Kansas City, MO October 2019
From the artist statement: “Each sculpture begins with gestural drawings on rolls of paper that capture perspective, moments of color, and shadows as a flat plane. Right angles describe half-open doorways with light spilling through while diagonals abstract stairways, hallways, corners, and vaulted ceilings. I develop the loose sketches into exact stereotomical drawings and begin construction. I address how my memories of place, distilled over time, become tangible objects—a new architecture to be experienced.”
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Image: Map illustrating how the site activates an isolated area of the trail
BELONG Objective: Independent proposal submitted to the City of Columbia to create a temporary work of art for the MKT Trail Date: June - September 2020 Project type: Public Art Funding: Successfully crowdfunded $1000 for materials Outcome: Installed a temporary, public sculpture inside the Hinkson Creek Bridge Memorial. The installation cast iridescent shadows onto the trail and provided accessibility to artwork during Covid-19 closures. Image: Experimenting with a panel attachment system using stop-toggles
Image: Preliminary model
After taking measurements of the memorial, I taped the elevation of one truss onto my studio floor to compose full-scale cardboard stencils to sew the vinyl panels The shapes created for this installation were derived from the negative spaces of my sculptures.
Image: Shadow cast by vinyl sheeting
Image: Shadow study of the Hinkson Creek Bridge Memorial 20
Image: Arranging shapes on my studio floor 21
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BELONG 60-Gauge Marine Grade Vinyl, Paracord, Stop-Toggles MKT Trail, Columbia, MO September 2020 Left Column: Shadows cast by vinyl panels Right Column: Viewsheds looking though the panels
Image: A hand-cut map collage I created in response to research maps produced by KCDC. 24
Image: Map connecting gateways and nodes of activity. Used in collage
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LEGEND SCALE: 1”:500’ GATEWAYS
KCDC’S proposed system for the West Bottoms is based off of its Gateways, Corridors, and Nodes. Selection of potential sites will consider how the sites relate to the larger system.
WEST BOTTOMS REBORN TRAILS
CORRIDORS NODES
Objective: Through a juried application process, I was selected to collaborate with the Kansas City Design Center (KCDC) and the Kansas City Office of Culture and Creative Services to activate three public spaces in the West Bottoms. I worked as an embedded artist at the KCDC studio. Date: December 2016 - August 2018 Project type: Public Art Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant Outcome: Liberty Courtyard site designed in collaboration with the KCDC team and the public sculpture, LIMIT
Image: Detail of studio wall at KCDC used for String Theory
Phase I Objective: Site Selection String Theory: A method I conceived and directed to draw connections between visceral reactions to site images and logistical data produced for each potential site. KCDC and I collected images and studies highlighting each site’s main qualities and drew physical relationships with string. String Theory led to my collaboration with the Liberty Courtyard team for the remaining two phases. The sites extreme light conditions, vibrant community life, and historical connections to Prohibition and railroad infrastructure influenced this decision.
Image: Liberty Courtyard (center) and site network 26
Image: Cars began to adhere to the chalk lines like stripes in a parking lot (Zone 2)
Phase II Objective: Planning & Community Engagement Search: An installation where I used a sports line chalker to draw lines derived from the Liberty Courtyard team’s sun studies, wind studies, and public right-of-way zones onto the ground plane of Liberty Courtyard. Liberty Courtyard is an open space accessible through three alley ways and behind four large warehouses. I created Search to grasp the site extents and to engage with the site’s residents as I drew the lines each day. The chalk lines formed interactive boundaries between us, the vehicles, loading docks, and rail lines found on site. Search helped dissect the site into three zones for implementation. Image: Red chalk lines in service alley (Zone 3) 27
Phase III Objective: Implementation As the Liberty Courtyard team finalized their site design, we agreed Zone 2 should feature a sculpture to amplify the site’s unique light conditions. I collaged plan and elevation views of the Courtyard with drawings from memory to find a shape I could fold into a 3D object. I began to research how the act of folding creates habitable, interactive spaces.
Image: Study of site elevations and shadows
Image: LIBERTY COURTYARD MEMORY MAP, H17” x L25”, La
Image: Final Liberty Courtyard site design. Zone 1: Green wall, Zone 2: Urban Furniture and public sculpture
Zone 3: Mandatory service alley 28
Image: Evening shadows at Liberty Courtyard
aser-Cut Chip Board and Spray Paint
Image: Shadow study for sculpture
Image: CNC- cut acrylic panels test fitted to steel frame 29
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LIMIT H7.5’ x L13.25’ x D9.5’, Steel and Acrylic, Exhibition view during West Bottoms Reborn Project Exhibition May 2018 Fabricated by Machine Head, Kansas City, MO
Detail of evening shadows stretching toward furniture along the loading docks
Image: Stereotomical drawing produced during the workshop
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Image: Drafting a 1:1 scale stereotomical drawing
SOLID - TO CUT Objective: To gain a basic understanding of Stereotomy - an applied drawing method used to build complex structures Date: May 29 - June 2, 2018 Project type: Workshop taught by Patrick Moore, Compagnon Passant Charpentier, at the Marc Adams School of Woodworking in Franklin, Indiana Funding: Arts KC Inspiration Grant Outcome: A completed model and new system of folding my abstract drawings into constructible spaces.
From the task sheet, I created a 1:1 technical drawing of the roof top and transcribed the lines onto poplar stock. The lines marked where to cut the joinery to construct the Schiften.
Stereotomy can be divided into two words: Stereo- Solid Tomy- The act of cutting
Image: Task sheet used to create my technical drawing
Image: In-process of cutting the half-lap for the St. Andrews Cross and the compound birdsmouth 34
Image: Final model, H17” X L38” X 24”
Image: Detail of rotated hip and top-plate joinery 35
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ter the workshop, I turned to the studio to apply s construction method to a ries of abstract drawings.
Image: Abstract drawing of a threshold, H8” x 10” Gouache on Paper Inspired by John Ruskin’s “Shadow Hunting” and Nicholas Hawksmoor wash sketches Image: Preliminary model for Bi-Fold, H2’ x L2.5’ x D4” Poplar and Interior Paint BI-FOLD (Full-Scale Installation) H8’ x L10’ x 4’ Pine and Interior Paint Exhibition view at Arts KC Gallery Kansas City, MO 2019
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Image: Home abstraction
MAPS & MEMORY FINDING Objective: Create large-scale installations exploring line and color while improving my CNC-operating abilities Date: 2015 - 2017 Project type: Personal Outcome: A series of CNC-routed maps whose content progressed from airport runway maps to abstracted drawings of my childhood home. Image: Map of Houston International Airport Runway
“...Whereas grids are not only spatial to start with, they are visual structures that explicitly reject a narrative or sequential reading of any kind...the grid is a staircase to the universal...”— Grids by Rosiland Krauss
25 MINUTES & 13 SECONDS H5.5’ x L13.5’ x D.75” CNC-Routed MDF & Interior Paint Exhibition view at Paragraph Gallery Kansas City, MO 2015
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9858923599 H7’ x L7.5’ x D.75” CNC-Routed Plywood & Interior Paint Exhibition view at the International Sculpture Conference Todd Weiner Gallery Kansas City, MO October 2017 After creating several airports, I began to map my childhood home. I constrained the memory drawings to a grid to remove a sense of time and narrative. I layered rooms, hallways, doorways, and road maps— simultaneously excavating and denying a sense of place. The independent shapes could then morph to suit scale and environment. Image: Home abstraction 41
Image: Mass and void study of the West Bottoms
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Image: Aerial view of West Bottoms grid distinct from the existing city grid
65518 Objective: Collaborative exhibition featuring artists, architects, designers, and film makers to present our findings as we dissected the unique, urban structure of the West Bottoms. Exhibition Date: September 2, 2016 Project type: Collaborative Exhibition Outcome: I designed and constructed an interactive installation for our exhibition titled SHOW & TELL. Each form represented the individual buildings and predicts how the city grid might adapt to incoming development.
Image: Sanding individual parts in the studio 44
From the aerial maps of the West Bottoms, I was drawn to the negative space and incomplete city blocks. I distilled the rectangles further by removing a line segment in plan view. Similar to how letters offered an abstract solution to complete the city grid in The Alphabetical City by Steven Holl, I reduced each building into a modular structure to represent a universal typology.
Image: Form model 45
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65518 Pine and Tape Exhibition view at Bauer Machine Works Gallery Kansas City , MO September 2, 2016 Our research concluded as the one night exhibition: Show & Tell. Throughout the evening, visitors worked together to stack and rearrange the forms within the street grid taped to the floor.
Image: Concept sketch based on color palette from the view out of an airplane’s port window
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Image: Panel completed on the CNC-router
PASSAGE Objective: Create a CNC-fabricated wall sculpture for a 24ft wall connecting the Loews Hotel and the Kansas City Convention Center Date: April 2020 Project type: Commission Outcome: A sculpture continuing my series of abstract airport runways in response to the Hotel’s travel concept. The artwork hangs at the pinnacle of an escalator and opposite a skywalk overlooking the Kansas City skyline.
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PASSAGE H8’ x L16.5’ x D.75” CNC-Routed Plywood and Interior Paint Loews Hotel, Kansas City, MO 2020 Colors within the sculpture reveal themselves as visitors ascend the escalator; a mundane experience transformed into one of anticipation.
Detail of painted interior edges and the stand-off mounting system
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