Voltz Clarke :: Artists




						Education 2006 Bronx Museum of Art, Artist In the Marketplace, The Bronx , NY 2005 Cooper Union Summer Artist Residency Program, New York , NY 1998 BFA, Drawing and Painting, University of North Texas , Denton Solo Exhibitions 2006 Cutting the Barbed Wire, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia , PA Group Exhibitions 2006 Artist in the Marketplace: Twenty Sixth Annual Exhibition, Bronx Museum of Art, New York , NY 2005 Re:Place, The Annex, New York , NY Cooper Union Summer Artist Residents Exhibit, New York , NY 2003 Night of a Thousand Drawings, Artist Space, New York , NY 2002 One Night Stand, Misc., Brooklyn , NY 2001 Smoke Lines on Mirror, Good/Bad Art Collective, Brooklyn , NY Homebound – Good/Bad Art Collective 8th Anniversary Celebration, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton , TX 2000 Juan Leche, Good/Bad Art Collective, Brooklyn , NY 1999 Get Down Syndrome, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton , TX P.P.S.A., University of North Texas , Denton , TX Joey on I.C.U., ABC No Rio , New York , NY 1998 True Stories, Arlington Museum of Art , Arlington , TX 120X (Marks the Spot), Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton , TX The Usual Suspects, NRH Gallery, North Richland Hills , TX Good/Bad Burns, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton , TX Just a Minute, Wait a Minute, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton , TX Welcome to Important Town, Conduit Gallery Annex, Dallas , TX Dear Good/Bad, Artificial Reality, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton , TX 1997 Wee Coma, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton , TX Very Fake, But Real, Diverseworks, Houston, TX Juried Exhibitions 2005 Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, University Place Gallery, Cambridge , MA Juror: Joseph Thompson, Director, MassMoCA. 1998 Annual Voertman Student Competition, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton , TX Juror: Sue Graze, Senior Curator, Miami Art Museum of Dade County; Charles Wylie, Lupe Murchison, Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art 1997 Annual Voertman Student Comptetion, University of North Texas Art Gallery , Denton , TX Bibliography 2006 AIM 26 Catalogue 2005 “New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition-in-Print, Number 56”, The Tenth Open Studios Northeastern Competition a catalog of the winners work 1998 “Below Radar,” FW Weekly, December 17 “Good/Bad Art Scavenger…,” Dallas Morning News, December 11 “We Sorry”, Artlies, September 5 “Honeymoon Suite”, Dallas Observer, March 11 “A Good/Bad Evening”, Fort Worth Star Telegram, March 8 “Very Fake, But Real”, Artlies, October 6 Awards & Residencies 2005 Cooper Union Summer Artist Residency Program, New York , NY Professional Activities Intern, White Box, New York , NY 2004 Member, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton , TX / Brooklyn , NY 1997-2001 My recent work investigates themes of isolation, abandonment, and transformation through the use of negative space. I see the negative space in a double sense. In one way, it frames out the subject in a reductive manner and in another respect, the space itself becomes second to the subject. The paintings examine the loss of the rural life as more Americans abandon the pastoral for an urban existence. With urban sprawl replacing the rural landscape, I've taken images from West Texas, particularly abandoned buildings, and isolated them on monochromatic backgrounds, giving more than a sense of the empty space to the rural landscape but hopefully a true sense of isolation and abandonment. I see the conventional western countryside fading away, as a new, desolate terrain swallows up the artifacts of deserted small towns. In some sense, I'm dealing with the idea of loneliness and how we as individuals have become more compartmentalized. Although my current body of work examines isolation on an environmental level, my previous work dealt with isolation on a human scale. At the time, I was interested in how, we as humans interact with one another and our relationship with our surroundings.