Artist Statement and Resume

Jodi Clark

Education

Currently completing Honours Year in Drawing and Painting at UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, Australia

Associate of Arts Degree, Fine Art Major, Santa Monica College, 2010, GPA 3.87

Dean’s Honor List, Fall 2007 through Spring 2010

Art Mentor Program, Fall 2008 through Spring 2010 ­­

Solo Exhibitions

2010

Drawing the Line: New Works by Jodi Clark, Studio: 401, Westlake Village, CA

Group Exhibitions

2015

InThe Night Garden: The Dark Circus (as part of the Sydney Fringe Festival), St Peters, New South Wales, Australia

FeckArt: Erotic Art Prize (as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival), Brunswick East, Victoria, Australia

There’s No Place Like Home: .M Contemporary Gallery, Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia.

Manning Art Prize: Naked & Nude exhibition 2015, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW, Australia

Little Things Art Competition, Saint Cloche Gallery, Paddington, NSW, Australia

Tim Olsen Drawing Prize 2015, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, NSW, Australia

Ink, Janet Clayton Gallery, Paddington, NSW, Australia

This, That, and The Other, LOWROAD, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia

Jenny Birt Award (finalist), AdSpace Gallery UNSW Art & Design, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia

Randwick City Council International Women’s Day Art Prize, Randwick Community Centre, Randwick and Bowen Library, Maroubra, New South Wales, Australia

Young Artist Initiative, .M Contemporary Gallery, Woollahra, New South Wales, Australia.  Winner of the Bresic-Whitney Emerging Artist Award

2014

UNSW Art & Design Annual 2014, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia

Kudos Emerging Artist + Designer Award (finalist), Kudos Gallery, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia

Performer in Michaela Davies’ Duty as part of Sonic Social, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Collaborating artist on Deborah Kelly’s No Human Being Is Illegal (In All Our Glory), 19th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

2013

Spatial Investigations, Kudos Gallery, Paddington, New South Wales, Australia

2010

V.03 Juried Exhibition, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Santa Monica Airport Art Walk, Open Studios, Santa Monica, CA

2009

Night Shift, Upstairs at the Market Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

117, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Santa Monica Airport Art Walk, Open Studios, Santa Monica, CA

Seminal Transmissions, McNish Art Gallery, Oxnard, CA

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I strongly believe in imperfection.  When I make my art I strive for it, and it’s through the organic process of my drawings that the distortions and imperfections of my subjects come to the surface.  I make art to challenge normalcy, to show that there is something fascinating about imperfection, outside of our perceptions of what is beautiful or what is normal.

It’s only on close inspection of a subject that its flaws become visible, and because my style of drawing necessitates detailed observation, the outcome is an often distorted, sometimes grotesque version of what we expect to see.  I want to challenge the assumptions that we make every day because we don’t pay close attention – we take shortcuts; we jump to conclusions based on what we’ve learnt, what we know, and what we’ve come to expect.  When I draw, I don’t expect to create a realistic rendering of the subject, and this allows the line to speak for itself, freeing me from the pressure of perfection.