Joseph M Bravo

Cosmic Connections Joseph M Bravo

This catalog is a companion to the retrospective exhibit held at the International Museum of Art and Science in McAllen, Texas in 2020. The exhibit featured artworks produced by Kirk Clark throughout a sixty year period. Over this time, Mr. Clark has engaged in a life long practice of art making as well as collecting an enviable body of work. He has been a prolific artist by any measure having created over a thousand mono-prints, hundreds of paintings and dozens of sculptures and other artworks in various media. This book contains over sixty works of Clark's artwork including paintings, prints and sculpture and is presented in full color plates with labels and essays in both English and Spanish. The notion of transcendence is central to his process and to a fuller appreciation of his artworks which carry cosmological narratives that extend beyond their formal design. They are records of transcendent phenomena that are visual analogues which reveal universal relationships between chaotic forces and corporeal experience. Ultimately, such artworks defy comprehensive description and are conceived to be experienced subjectively as oracles for personal illumination.