Hunt Clark
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b. 1969, Sparta, Tennessee
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bridgestone Firestone, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 FAX, Knoxville Museum of Art, South London Gallery, London, UK
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
SouthXeast Exhibition, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2010 InLight Richmond, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 Turned & Sculptured Wood, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hunt Clark Recent Work, Florescent Gallery, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Soft, Good Citizen Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Summer Faculty Show, Sandra J. Blain Gallery, Gatlinburg, TN
I Thought Our World Where The Same, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Soul’s Journey: Inside the Creative Process, Center for Craft Creativity and Design,
Hendersonville, NC and the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum,
Myrtle Beach, FL
2008 ArtScapes, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
allTURNatives: Form and Spirit, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Hoover, Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
New, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
2006 Hunt Clark Special Presentation, 503 Gallery, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
2004 5th Anniversary Show, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN
2003 A Social Affair, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Accumulate/Disperse, Back 40 Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2002 Approached and Crossed, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN
PROG, Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2001 Random Tongue, The Underbelly, Knoxville, TN
onto-, The Underbelly, Knoxville, TN
2000 Collaborating Couples, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
1999 First Southeastern Exhibition, A-1 Lab, Knoxville, TN
1997 Turned & Sculptured Wood, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Decoy, A-1 Lab, Knoxville, TN
Prescribed Gender, A-1 Lab, Knoxville, TN
Banking on the Arts, Cookeville, TN
Annual Invitational Exhibition, Bennette Gallery, Knoxville, TN
1996 Sculpture, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2009 Craft Arts International. Issue 75. “OUTSIDE/INSIDE CONTINUUM: The Convoluted Sculptures of Hunt Clark.” Wallace, Kevin. Pp 32-37.
2008 Art News. November. Pp 68.
2007 Art Papers. Review. Knowles, Susan. Pp 65.
2006 American Craft. Feb/March. Pp 23.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Each of these sculptures is a result of an intense exploration between movement and space. A bulb jutting out or a sudden sharp angle disrupting otherwise fluid forms imposes a sense of space in time. I draw on the biomechanics of nature to create shapes that suggest motion. As a result, these forms tend to have a functional—even corporeal—feel.
I developed an unconventional technique using a chain saw and other specialized tools that allows me to test the limits of the medium to create sculptures that, though static, retain a sense of fluid movement. When I approach the wood, I generally have a concept in mind the material carries its own particular limitations, but my intention is to explore my original idea as fully as possible.
The tools I use give me the freedom to impose a structure on the piece. The freedom manifests itself in the feeling that rather than carving out a space, I’m actually displacing the weight of the form, that wood is malleable, that it can be made to rise and fall, can be pushed or pulled.
With every new piece I investigate more deeply the relationship between motion, space and form. The thinness and consistency of these sculptures defines my decisions.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bridgestone Firestone, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 FAX, Knoxville Museum of Art, South London Gallery, London, UK
Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Exposition, Chicago, IL
SouthXeast Exhibition, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2010 InLight Richmond, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2009 Turned & Sculptured Wood, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hunt Clark Recent Work, Florescent Gallery, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Soft, Good Citizen Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Summer Faculty Show, Sandra J. Blain Gallery, Gatlinburg, TN
I Thought Our World Where The Same, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Soul’s Journey: Inside the Creative Process, Center for Craft Creativity and Design,
Hendersonville, NC and the Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum,
Myrtle Beach, FL
2008 ArtScapes, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
allTURNatives: Form and Spirit, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Hoover, Downtown Gallery, Knoxville, TN
New, Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
2006 Hunt Clark Special Presentation, 503 Gallery, Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, PA
2004 5th Anniversary Show, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN
2003 A Social Affair, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Accumulate/Disperse, Back 40 Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2002 Approached and Crossed, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN
PROG, Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2001 Random Tongue, The Underbelly, Knoxville, TN
onto-, The Underbelly, Knoxville, TN
2000 Collaborating Couples, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
1999 First Southeastern Exhibition, A-1 Lab, Knoxville, TN
1997 Turned & Sculptured Wood, del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Decoy, A-1 Lab, Knoxville, TN
Prescribed Gender, A-1 Lab, Knoxville, TN
Banking on the Arts, Cookeville, TN
Annual Invitational Exhibition, Bennette Gallery, Knoxville, TN
1996 Sculpture, Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2009 Craft Arts International. Issue 75. “OUTSIDE/INSIDE CONTINUUM: The Convoluted Sculptures of Hunt Clark.” Wallace, Kevin. Pp 32-37.
2008 Art News. November. Pp 68.
2007 Art Papers. Review. Knowles, Susan. Pp 65.
2006 American Craft. Feb/March. Pp 23.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Each of these sculptures is a result of an intense exploration between movement and space. A bulb jutting out or a sudden sharp angle disrupting otherwise fluid forms imposes a sense of space in time. I draw on the biomechanics of nature to create shapes that suggest motion. As a result, these forms tend to have a functional—even corporeal—feel.
I developed an unconventional technique using a chain saw and other specialized tools that allows me to test the limits of the medium to create sculptures that, though static, retain a sense of fluid movement. When I approach the wood, I generally have a concept in mind the material carries its own particular limitations, but my intention is to explore my original idea as fully as possible.
The tools I use give me the freedom to impose a structure on the piece. The freedom manifests itself in the feeling that rather than carving out a space, I’m actually displacing the weight of the form, that wood is malleable, that it can be made to rise and fall, can be pushed or pulled.
With every new piece I investigate more deeply the relationship between motion, space and form. The thinness and consistency of these sculptures defines my decisions.