By Ted Joans, "Edward Clark and I"
In For the Sake of the Search. New York, 1997. p.33.
Clark is not the
type of artist who employs precious sable brushes, tubes of special
ready-mixed oil paints or a traditional hand-held palette. None of
that yesteryear equipment for Clark-- he doesn't even own an easel.
The floors in New York or Paris are his easels-- bed for creative action.
Gallons, quarts and pints of paint are scattered around his canvas.
Each can has colors of prime importance to Clark. His 'brushes' are rollers,
short-handled brooms, rags, and his hands; all are used as a means to
provide him fulfillment, to create his swift images of pleasure. The canvas might receive several spurts
of different colors, soon followed by the roller or perhaps a sensual
thrust of the broom tempered by a hand-held rag used to wipe an unwanted
spew or drip away.
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