Timothy J. Clark:

A Retrospective

Above: Summer Solstice, watercolor 29″x40″   Courtesy Hammer Galleries 

August 27 - October 18, 2008

A traveling mid-career retrospective by painter Timothy J. Clark will open at the Whistler House Museum of Art on August 27, 2008; a book about Clark and his work, published by Pomegranate Communications in conjunction with the exhibition, is available.

July 29, 2008, Lowell, Massachusetts.  The Whistler House Museum of Art will exhibit the mid-career retrospective of nationally-known artist Timothy J. Clark August 27 – October 18, 2008.  Guest-curated by Mr. Jean Stern, art historian, author and Director of the Irvine Museum in Southern California, this traveling exhibition was organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art in January and includes approximately forty drawings, watercolors and oil paintings created over four decades by the award-winning artist.  Michael Lally, Director of the Whistler House Museum of Art, notes that Clark’s paintings show “a personal, highly graphic and expressive record of our times.” 

From June 19 – August 3, 2008 the Clark retrospective was on display at the Butler Museum of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. The exhibition will conclude in January 2009 with a gala solo exhibition at Hammer Galleries in New York City.

A full-color treatise of Clark’s work entitled Timothy J. Clark,  published by Pomegranate Communications in January 2008, serves as an enhanced catalog for the Clark exhibition.  It includes a Foreword by noted American artist Will Barnet, a biographical essay by Jean Stern, and a critical essay by award-winning New York-based art historian, Lisa Farrington, PhD.

The exhibition and book showcase the work of an artist born and raised in Santa Ana, California and educated in Los Angeles art schools in the late sixties and early seventies.  Influenced by the region’s indigenous California school, the predominant abstract expressionist movement of the times, and multiple extended trips to do research and paint in New York City and Boston, Clark merged radically different American painting traditions into a unique and elegant personal style.  The show illustrates the evolution and maturation of his incipient artistic vision into one of exquisite beauty, mystery and poetic stillness, a vision that Clark expresses in both watercolor and oil paints.

A graduate of the Chouinard Art Institute and the California Institute of the Arts, (Cal Arts), Clark maintains studios in New York City, Capistrano Beach, California, and West Bath, Maine.  His work is represented in many private and public collections in addition to that of the Whistler House, including the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine, the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, and the Museum of the City of New York which acquired his on-site drawings of a still-smoldering Ground Zero.

Renowned for his lush gardens and landscapes, sensitive portraits and evocative interior studies, Timothy J. Clark’s work graces the homes of collectors throughout the United States and Canada and is represented by Hammer Galleries in New York City.  Time spent painting in Southwestern Maine has lent a distinctive New England flavor to much of his work over the past twenty years.

In October 2005, the New York Times listed Mr. Clark as a “luminary of the Art Students League” in an extensive article about the League. Clark is also an occasional guest lecturer at the National Academy School in New York, the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and the Yale Summer Classical Educational Program in Rome, Italy.

Ancestral Face-lifting:

An Introduction to the Conservator’s Art

Thursday, November 6 at 7:00 PM

$10 Admission (Free to Hellenic Culture Society and Whistler House Museum of Art / Lowell Art Association Members)

Lowell’s own Peter Kostoulakos, an expert in art restoration, lectures on his 30 plus year career, his experiences and challenges. Peter has done extensive work on the Whistler House Museum of Art permanent collection of oil paintings. Many will be available for viewing along with “before and after” photographs. Peter will also discuss the collector’s responsibility in preserving a personal collection, where to hang, how to light, preparing for an appraisal, the effect restoration has on value, etc.

This program is presented by the Hellenic Culture Society.