Sonya Clark
Reversals (Performance)
2019Photo by Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times
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
Unraveled & Unraveling
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 (detail)
2010cloth and thread
onigi 13
1997cloth and thread
hook head
2003wool felt and beads
iterations
2008combs
mom's wisdom
2011hair
Current Exhibitions
Feb 22 - April 18
Carnegie Center for Art & History. New Albany, IN
Feb 6 - May 3
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Jan 23 - May 30
Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College Lancaster, PA
‘NEWS
ARTIST LECTURES:
March 5 @ 7pm: Hoffman Artist Lecture, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
March 8 @ 2pm: Tremaine Lecture, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
March 25 @ 6pm: Keynote Address, NCECA, Greater Richmond Convention Center, Richmond, VA
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“Clark sculpts shapes and winds thread into hair power, a thrilling metaphor.”
—Scott WilsonThe Visual Arts Journal