![]() ![]() Signature elements of her approach are present in this group of work conceived at the Center the use of visual and verbal puns, allusions to personal, historical, social and phenomena, the disruption of social myths, abstraction and description of material forms and the well-designed elevation, animation and thoughtful merger of commonplace objects with complex ideas. As Bearden did before her, Sonya Clark skillfully defies an assortment of conventions that anchor viewer expectations of contemporary visual art, and decisively invalidates the overworked art-versus-craft debate with each exploration she makes. Coincidentally, nearly one hundred years before Clark’s arrival, the transformative twentieth century Tar Heel artist Romare Howard Bearden was born in the Queen city. ![]() ![]() The following selection of essays and a recent public talk cover a range of people, issues, and time periods in art, visual culture, the academy and American life that compelled me to write and others to publish my writing, and/or provide a stage to publically speak my thoughts.ĭuring the sixth month of the first year of this second decade of the twenty first century, the artist Sonya Clark traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina to work as a Knight Artist-in-Residence at McColl Center for Visual Art. ![]()
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