By Kellie Jones, Art Space Catalogue, 1990.
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artist's travels to parts of the world have, in a sense, kept his work fresh
and consistently exciting. Each trip has inspired a change or variation
in color, materials, and approach to two-dimensional space. The resulting
series of paintings records the memory of experience and translates it into
the language of gesture. Hence the grounded red/brown of the Ife Series from
the mid-seventies recalls a Nigerian sojourn. Harmonious hues of blue, pink,
and beige take on a translucent quality in the Louisiana Series (1978-79),
the last to use the ellipse shape which structured Clark's work for a decade.
The Bahia Series completed in Brazil (1988) is characterized by rich,
deep, almost fathomless color stacked in horizontal tiers.
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