Above / Below
CURATED BY NICK CLARK
JULY 10TH - AUGUST 21ST, 2020
In Above / Below, Nick Clark and Anne Dovali turn their attention to investigating the ethereal's relationship to the concrete. Examining the representational and material weight of ground and sky, both artists embrace painting's potential to reorient phenomenological responses to standing squarely in the middle.
Above, Dovali's airy renderings of cloud formations confront Clark's imposing simulations of massive concrete pads Below. Both artists' affinity for found materials as substrate (Dovali's semi-transparent pocket-sized pieces of glass and Clark's repurposed segments of cardboard) underscores the transience of being caught in-between. In-between time, in-between place, in-between being, become a shared state and a universal frame of reference for transformation and renewal.
Virtual Generator Grant programming is presented with generous support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
Installation Images
Above / Below Virtual Exhibition Walkthrough
About the Artists
Nick Clark has exhibited around the US for nine years, operated a mural and art commission business, taught and mentored high school students, worked for Bemis Center of Contemporary Arts, Joslyn Art Museum, Kent Bellows Studio, League of Human Dignity, and as a CAD technician. In June of 2020 he exhibited twenty paintings in One Trick Pony at Project Project in Omaha.
Anne Dovali received a BFA in painting from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. In 2016 she was published nationally in New American Paintings. She has exhibited at the Jackson Dinsdale Art Center Gallery (Hastings, NE), Project Project, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, and other local galleries. She has a forthcoming residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska City and currently lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska.