Sonya Clark
Reversals (Performance)
2019Photo by Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times
these days, this country, this history
2019cotton flags
Monumental Cloth, The flag we should know
2019Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño
Monumental Cloth, installation
2019Photo credit: Carlos Avendaño
Edifice and Mortar (detail)
2018Brick, human hair
Unraveling & Unraveled
2015Battle Flag of the Confederacy (cotton)
Hair Craft Project 2014
Jamilah Williams (left)Kamala Bhagat (right)
Pickney
1997cloth, wood, and thread
Madam CJ Walker
2008combs
afro Abe II (peacock)
2010paper and thread
Black Hair Flag
2010cloth and thread
Onigi 13
1997cloth and thread
Mom's Wisdom
2011photograph
Iterations
2008combs
Current Exhibitions
March 3-May 31
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
April 9-September 12
deCordova Museum and Sculpture park
February 6-May31
Crystal Bridges Museum, AR
“Clark’s work … is about identity-not just about race, but about the more universal identity of the soul.”
—Beverly GordonFiberarts