NICK CLARK

On view at the Millwork Common’s Ashton Building

“Under the Bridge”

36 x 48 inches / Acrylic on canvas

$6,000 (contact Nick to purchase art)

On view at the APMA lobby

“Very Tired”

36 x 48 inches / Acrylic on canvas

$4,000 (contact Nick to purchase art)

EMAIL [email protected]

INSTAGRAM @nicotine.npc or @nickclarknickclark

WEBSITE nicholasclarkart.com

ARTIST BIO/STATEMENT    Nick Clark (b. 1992) is a new media artist and painter working in Omaha, Nebraska. Clark has worked at institutions such as Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts, Joslyn Art Museum, Kent Bellows Studio, and currently as Art Director and Senior Graphic Designer for education nonprofit Prairie STEM. Notable exhibitions include Nerve (Split Gallery, Omaha), Long Way Down (Sulk Gallery, Chicago), The Patriot (O’Flaherty’s Gallery, NYC), Salamander (Wesleyan, Lincoln), Threshold (Tchotchke Gallery, NYC), and Deposition: Drawn (North Park, Chicago).

Nick Clark’s work comprises photography, CG models, LiDAR scans, and notes app scribbles which together are digitally composed and ultimately realized as a monochromatic acrylic painting on canvas. His paint application utilizes centuries-old glazing and high luminosity oil painting techniques while pushing the boundaries of contemporary acrylic and airbrush. Monochromatic paint focuses the subject and textures, emphasizing visual languages unique to each digital technology.

Superimposed preliminary writings and sketches nod at Clark’s process by presenting the raw form of the work on top of, or cut from, the fully realized painting. The charm is in the disparity between the meticulous quality of a painting and the impulsive, childlike prose and drawings hovering above. The friction between these opposing stylistic languages equalized through paint leaves a space to mull over vulnerability, endurance, cringe, love, and despondence.

After being disabled by Long Covid, autonomic dysfunction and fatigue, Clark is now developing a series of high-resolution 3D-printed resin boulders carved with images evoking fear, longing, and the process of recovery. They metaphorically represent the dullness of chronic fatigue, brain injury, and the Sisyphean effort of maintaining an art practice under such constraints.