SANDLER HUDSON GALLERY
Krista Clark
Artist Statement
I use the visual language of architecture and the literal physicality of building materials to create collaged drawings and site-specific installations. I am interested in transitional spaces, the homogenization of place in addition to pushing and playing with the boundaries of drawing, sculpture and installation. I use formal gestures of erasing, overlapping, layering, stacking and cutting and saddle them with the task of depicting our compromised narratives within our built environments. Within this search I am looking at the shiftiness between things: interior/exterior, place/space, flatness/depth, and the unavoidable ego/id.
Each work is steered by my observations of shifting urban landscapes then broken down and retold through abstraction. I seek to highlight the ubiquitous materials we are exposed to everyday as we drive, ride, walk and bike through our changing communities. How are we changed by and at the same time how do we alter our surrounding landscape? I reference architectural gestures in order to display ways in which we mark and navigate space. By incorporating building materials as formal components alongside conventional drawn elements I hope to augment our relationship to these materials, and ultimately the space and community in which we use them."
Krista Clark was born in Burlington, VT and lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She holds an MFA from Georgia State University. Her work has been exhibited at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Studio Museum in Harlem New York and the New Museum in New York. She was the recipient of the Artadia Award and the Working Artist Project Award with MOCA GA in 2018 and a Hudgens Prize Finalist in 2024. Clark is an Assistant Professor at Emory University
KRISTA CLARK
EDUCATION
2016 School of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, Atlanta. MFA
2001 Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, New York. MA
1998 Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta. BFA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Virgin Greens, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, New York
2022 After Barkley, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
2019 Untenanted, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, New York
Base Line of Appraisal, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia
2016 At the Corner of the Sublime Heights, Manors, and Views, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Invisible Forces, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Hudgens Prize Finalist Exhibition, Hudgens Center, Duluth, Georgia
Younger Than the Sun, Tempus Projects, Tampa, Florida
Hand to Mouth, Stove Works, Curator TK Smith, Chattanooga, Tennessee
2022 No Forms, Hill Art Foundation, Curator Margot Norton, New York, New York
2021 2021 Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, Curators Jamilla James, Margot Norton New York
Float…Fly…Transcend, Alabama Contemporary, Mobile
2020 Unbound, Zuckerman Museum, Kennesaw, Georgia
2019 Recent Drawings, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
2018 ‘Til the Lights Go Out, Hathaway Gallery, Atlanta
Plotting the Other Side, curator Daniel Fuller, Sliver Space Atlanta Contemporary Reconstructions, curator Karen Tauches, Swan Coach House, Atlanta
2017 Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Curators Connie Choi, Hallie Ringle, New York
Chute, curator Doppler Projects, Blue Mark Studios, Atlanta
2016 Hot Combos, HATHAWAY, Atlanta
Drawing Never Dies, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver
MFA National Competition, juror Lance Esplund, FIRST STREET GALLERY, New York Art in Embassies, curator Welmoed Laanstra United States Embassy, Bratislava, Slovakia
Residual Residence, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta
2015 The Relationship between Things, Aqua Art Miami, Miami
Concrete Acquaintances, Thomas Deans Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta
Transformation, Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta
Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines, curator Michael Rooks, High Museum of Art, Atlanta GSU Annual Juried Show, juror Daniel Fuller, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Interpolation, Ernest G. Welch Gallery, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Page Not Found, Dodd Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia, Athens
2012 Trans late, 25 East Gallery, New York
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Hudgens Prize Finalist
2023 New American Painting Juror’s Pick
2018 Artadia Award
2018 Working Artist Project Award
2016 WonderRoot CSA Artist Season 09, Atlanta
2012 Hambidge Creative Residency Program, Rabun Gap, GA
COLLECTIONS
Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
High Museum of Art Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia (MOCA GA)
The Coca-Cola Company
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dimling Cochran, Rebecca. “Krista Clark: Change of Plans”. Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2023.
Zevitas, Steven. “New American Paintings”. June/July 2023. Volume 28, Issue 3.
Williams, Jennifer. “Krista Clark – After Barkley”. Art Papers, January 2023.
Diehl, Travis. “Thud, Tap, Trickle: ‘Soft Water Hard Stone’ at the New Museum”. Art in America, January 19, 2022.
Frey, MaDora. Interview, “In Conversation with Krista Clark”. BURNAWAY, December 9, 2021
Houston, Kerr. “Grace Under Pressure: The 2021 New Museum Triennial”. Bmore Art, November 22, 2021.
Cotter, Holland. “New Museum Triennial Explores the Hidden Strengths of Soft Power”. New York Times, November 4, 2021.
Miga, Irini. Interview, “A Conversation with Krista Clark Triggered by Her Solo Show “Untenanted” at Spencer Brownstone Gallery”. Daily Lazy, November 14, 2019
Smith, TK. “Krista Clark: Base Line of Appraisal”. Art Papers, July 31, 2019.
Dempster, Claire. “Residual Delicacy: Krista Clark in Atlanta”. BURNAWAY, July 25, 2019
Alexander, Andrew. “In the Studio with Krista Clark”. ArtsATL, April 27, 2018.
Dayal, Mira. “Fictions”. Art Forum 56, no. 7 (March 2018): 222.
Cotter, Holland. “From the Personal to the Political, 19 Artists to Watch Next Year”. New York Times, December 27, 2017.
Flamming, E.C. “Art Review: Controlled Chaos: Lauren Peterson and Krista Clark at Kibbee”. BURNAWAY, September 20, 2017.
Lee, Jaime. “Video: A Studio Visit with Krista Clark”. BURNAWAY, April 14, 2017.
Bortone, Angela. “Review: Chute Explores the liminal space between the disposable & Quotidian” ArtsATL. March 27, 2017.
Clark, Krista. “A Visual Essay by Krista Clark, Atlanta, GA”. Chasm Journal, July 12, 2017.
DeBrincat, AM. Interview, “Reconfiguring Space”. ArtFile Magazine, October 29, 2016
Paglia, Michael. “Review: Reading Between the Lines at RedLine’s Drawing Never Dies”. Westword, July 26, 2016.
Weiskopf, Dan. “Review, Round-Up: {Poem 88} & Callanwolde Fine Arts Center”. ArtsATL. January 22, 2016
TEACHING
2023-Pr. Assistant Professor, Visual Arts, Emory University
2017-23 Assistant Professor, Department Chair of Visual Arts, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
2016-17 Part-time Instructor, Drawing Foundations, Georgia State University, Atlanta
2014-15 Graduate Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record), Drawing Foundations, Georgia State University, Atlanta
2015 Tennessee Governor’s School for the Arts, Summer Art Program
2006-12 Art Teacher, Milton High School
