JOHN CLEM CLARKE (1937 - )

BORN Bend, Oregon, 1937

EDUCATION Oregon State University, Corvallis

Mexico City College, Mexico

University of Oregon, Eugene, B.F.A., 1960

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1968 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY

1969 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY

1969 Franklin Siden Gallery, Detroit, MI

1970 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1970 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1970 Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen, West Germany

1971 Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY

1971 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL

1971 Pyramid Gallery, Washington, DC

1971 Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany

1972 Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA

1972 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1972 Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

1974 DM Gallery, London, England

1975 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1977 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1977 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1977 Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL

1979 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1981 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1981 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1983 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1990 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1991 Wassermann Galerie, Munich, Germany

1991 Wassermann Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1992 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY

1993 Wassermann Galerie, Munich, Germany

1995 Betts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1998 Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1967-68 "Annual," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1968 "East Coast-West Coast," Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma,

Norman, OK

1968 "Hang-Ups and Put Downs," University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

1968 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1968 New York State University College of Brockport, NY

1969 "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," Krannert Art

Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

1969 Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1969 "Directions 2: Aspects of a New Realism," Milwaukee Art

Center, WI; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX;

Akron Art Institute, OH

1969 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL

1969-70 "Annual," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1969 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1970 Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1970 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1970 "22 Realists," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1970 "30th Annual Exhibition," Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1970 "Younger Artists from O.K. Harris," Dayton Art Institute, OH

1970 "Director's Choice," Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI

1970 New Gallery, Cleveland, OH

1971 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1971 "Arts Festival 1971," Dowling College, Oakland, Long Island, NY

1971 "New Realism," State University College at Potsdam, NY

1971 "Radical Realism," Contemporary Art Museum, Chicago, IL

1971 Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL

1971 "Spray," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

1971 "The New Landscapes," Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

1972 "Phases of New Realism," Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami,

Coral Gables, FL

1972 High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

1972 "Annual," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1972-73 "Amerikanischer Fotorealismus," Traveling Exhibition,

Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Frankfurter Kunstverein Kunst-

und Museumverein Wuppertal, West Germany

1972 "Realism Now," New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

1973 "Annual," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1973 "Hyperrealistes americains," Galerie Arditti, Paris, France

1973 "New York Avant-Garde`74," Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal,

Quebec, Canada

1973 "Hyperrealisme," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium

1973 "Amerikanske Realister," Randers Kunstmuseum, Sweden

1974 "Choice Dealers/Dealers' Choice," New York Cultural Center, NY

1974 "Painting & Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN

1974 "New/Photo Realism," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1974 "Tokyo Biennale`74," Tokyo, Japan

1974 "Aspects of the Figure," The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH

1974 "Contemporary Paintings from the Lewis Collection," Delaware

Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1974 "New Realism," Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

1974 "New Realism Revisited," Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State

University College at Potsdam, NY

1974 "Pssst! Air Brush Painting," Brockton Art Center, Brockton, MA

1974 "Painting and Sculpture Today," The Contemporary Art Center,

Cincinnati, OH

1975 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY

1975 "A Change of View," Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

1975 "Report from SoHo," Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY

1975 The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1975 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

1976 "The Presence and the Absence of Realism," State University

College at Potsdam, NY

1976-78 "Aspects of Realism," Traveling Exhibition Sponsored by

Rothman's of Pall Mall Canada, Ltd.: The Gallery/Stratford,

Ontario, 6/8-9/5/76; Vancouver Centennial Museum, British

Columbia, 9/16-10/17/76; Glenbow Alberta Institute, Calgary,

10/29-11/28/76; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan;

12/10/76-1/9/77; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, 1/20-

2/20/77; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, 3/1-4/1/77; Memorial

University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, 4/14-

5/14/77; Confederation Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Prince

Edward Island, 5/26-6/26/77; Musee d'Art Contemporain,

Montreal, Quebec, 7/7-8/7/77; Dalhousie University Art

Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 8/18-9/18/77; Windsor Art

Gallery, Ontario, 9/29-10/23/77; London Art Gallery &

McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery, London, Ontario, 11/3-

11/27/77; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, 12/8/77-1/8/78

1976 "Painting and Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art,

Indianapolis, IN

1976 "America, 1976," Bicentennial Exhibition by U.S. Department of

the Interior, Washington, DC

1976 "The Hue and Far Cry of Color," Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN

1976 "Figure as Form," Museum of Fine Arts," St. Petersburg, FL

1976 Wichita State University, Wichita, KS

1976 "Midyear Show," The Butler Institute of American Art,

Youngstown, OH

1976 "Look Again," The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH

1977 "Abstract Illusionism," Rice University, Houston, TX

1977 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

1977 "Nothing But Nudes," Whitney Museum-Downtown, New York, NY

1977 Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL

1977 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1977 "New in the Seventies," University of Texas, Austin, TX

1977-78 "Illusion and Reality," Australian Traveling Exhibition:

Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Western Australian Art

Gallery, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery

of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia,

Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tasmanian

Museum of Art Gallery, Hobart

1977 Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA

1977 Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI

1978 "Current Work from New York," Slippery Rock State College, PA

1977-78 "Photo Realism," Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

1978 "Spring Loan Exhibition," Weatherspoon Art Gallery,

Greensboro, NC

1978 "Painting and Sculpture Today 1978," Indianapolis Museum of

Art, IN

1978 "Art About Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1979 "Perceiving Time and Space through Art," Hartnett Gallery,

University of Rochester, NY

1979 "Portraits of the Sixties/Seventies," Aspen Center for the

Visual Arts, CO

1980 "Illusionism," O.K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ

1980 "Realism/Photorealism," Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK

1981 "Changes: Art in America 1881-1981," Marquette University,

Milwaukee, WI

1981 "Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

1981 "Reality of Illusion," University of Southern California,

Los Angeles, CA

1981 "Contemporary American Realism Since 1960," Pennsylvania

Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1981 "Homage," Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

1982 "The Artist & The Airbrush," California State University, San

Jose, CA

1982 Myers Fine Arts Gallery, State University College,

Plattsburgh, NY

1982 "Still Life Paintings and Drawings," The Gallery Leroy Collins,

Campus Center, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL

1982 "Paintings of George Washington," Fraunces Tavern Museum,

New York, NY

1982 "O.K. Harris Artists," O.K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ

1983 "The Ponderosa Collection," The Butler Institute of American

Art, Youngstown, OH

1985 "Diversity, New York Artists," University of Rhode Island,

Kingston, RI

1986 "Television's Impact in Contemporary Art," Queen's Museum of

Art, Flushing, NY

1987 "Twenty Times Two," Salem Art Association, Salem, OR

1988 "Columnar," The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY

1989 "Image World - Art and Media Culture," Whitney Museum of

American Art, New York, NY, (Catalog)

1990 "The Humanist Icon," Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia,

Charlottesville, VA, March 18 - May 20; The New York Academy

of Art, New York, NY, June 7 - July 1; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum

of Art, Wichita State University, KS, October 18 - December 2

(Catalog)

1990 "The 80's: A Post Pop Generation," Southern Alleghenies

Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, June 30 - September 9

1990 "The New West," Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY,

September 15 - October 15

1990 "Emerging Art 1990," New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, Nov.

1991 Basel Art Fair, Switzerland, June

1994 "Art After Art," Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor,

NY, Sept. 27 - Jan. 2 1998 "Photorealism,” Jaffe Baker Gallery,Boca Raton, FL,
February 12 – March 7
2000 "Illusions," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Sept. 6-30

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1990 Smith, Roberta. "John Clem Clarke-Review," The New York Times,

NYC, February 2, p.C28

1990 Miller, Donald. "Work in the Post-Pop`80's More Complex,

Meaningful," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA, August 18, ill.

1990 "John Clem Clarke at Louis K. Meisel," (review) Art in America,

New York, NY, November, p.200

1991 a.m. Magazine, Allentown, PA, May 31, p.D-1 ill.

1991 Schneider, Von Bruno F. "Wenn Göttinnen zu Pin-Up-Girls

werden," Kölnische Rundschau, June 3, illus.

1995 Capek, Michael. Artistic Trickery, Minneapolis: Lerner

Publications, pp.9, 22 ill.

1995 Higgins, Colin. Harold et Maude, Paris: Éditions Denoël,

cover illustration - “Ford Splash” (detail), 1990

SELECTED CATALOGS

1972 "Whitney Review 1971-72," Cover

1989 "Image World - Art and Media Culture," Whitney Museum of

American Art, New York, NY, p.51 Illustration

1990 Binai, Paul. "The 80's: A Post Pop Generation," Southern

Alleghenies Museum Of Art, Loretto, PA, June 30 - September 9

cover illustration - "Airplane in Thunderstorm", 1989, p.9

1991 Hunter, Sam. "John Clem Clarke," Wassermann Galerie, Munich,

Germany

1994 “Art after Art”, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor,

NY, 27 September - 2 January 1995, pp.18-21.

MISCELLANEOUS

1990 Painting included as a part of motion picture "The Hard Way",

Universal Studios, Universal City, CA

1995 Three paintings commissioned for the exterior fronts of the

Chelsea Piers, New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

American Republic Insurance Co., Des Moines, IA

Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

Kresge Company, Detroit, MI

Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

Post Keyes Gardner, Inc., Chicago, IL

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Security Pacific National Bank, New York, NY

Security Pacific National Bank, World Headquarters, Los Angeles, CA

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

University of Georgia at Atlanta, GA

Utrecht Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Westmoreland County Museum, Greenburg, PA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Wichita State University, Wichita, KS