Moira Clark

Moira Clark lives and works in Toronto.  She found the sources for her representational and earlier abstract paintings in still life, interior spaces, street maps, music, poetry and urban architecture.  The subject of Clark’s work is colour and the results are a varied range of chromatic compositions using grids, patterns, geometric shapes and organic forms.  Until recently she was working on large diptych paintings based on Toronto architecture from her observations of the west end neighbourhood where she lives.  Currently she is painting non-narrative abstractions with no sources at all.  Please read her Artist's Statement and Painting's Process/Progress.

In 2000 Clark was a founding member of the Toronto gallery collective Loop where she had three solo exhibitions during the four years she was with the gallery until 2003.  After this she was represented in Toronto by KWT contemporary/XEXE Gallery from 2004 until the gallery’s closing in 2012.   In 2012 she was in The C Word: A Look at the Role of Craft in Contemporary Art, curated by Richard Mongiat for the Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough.  In 2010 Clark created a site-specific painting for Art School {Dismissed}, an exhibition of works by artists who were also teaching art, curated by Heather Nicol in the decommissioned Shaw Street School in Toronto.   Her paintings are reproduced in the publications Carte Blanche Vol. 2: Painting (2008) and The Donovan Collection (2010). In 2004 she was an artist-in-residence at the Pouch Cove Residency in Newfoundland.

During the early part of her art career Clark was a printmaker and her etchings and linocuts have been exhibited across Canada and are represented in many public and corporate art collections. In 2003 she had a retrospective of her paintings and prints at the Cambridge Galleries, in Preston, Ontario curated by Gordon Hatt. She was a member of the boards of directors with Mercer Union (l991-97) and Open Studio (l982-89).  She has a BFA from York University and has taught at a number of art institutions in the Toronto area including Open Studio, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto School of Art, Avenue Road Art School and Sheridan College.

Moira Clark’s work can be viewed at www.moiraclark.weebly.com and at the Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art http://ccca.concordia.ca/