Timothy J. Clark (born 1951) is an American painter known for his watercolors, oils, and drawings of modern still lifes, landscapes, interiors and portraits. He was born and raised in Santa Ana, California and attended Otis Art Institute and then the Art Center School of Design where he worked with Harry Carmean in 1969. He graduated from the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (CFA '72) and the California Institute of the Arts (BA 1975) where he worked with Harold Kramer, Emerson Woelffer, and Donald W. Graham. Clark received his Masters Degree from California State University, Long Beach in 1978 where he worked with Joyce Tremain. He currently serves on the CalArts Alumni Board of Directors.
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Clark is noted for his poetic interpretations of everyday scenes and activities, merging post-modern painting styles. His drawings, oils and watercolor paintings are included in the permanent collections of the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, the El Paso Museum of Art in Texas, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, the Museum of the City of New York, the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery, the Library of Congress Works on Paper, The Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri, and the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, Massachusetts, in addition to numerous private collections. A sketchbook of the artist's drawings of Ground Zero created at the still-smoldering site within days of the attack were acquired for the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
In 2008 a mid-career retrospective exhibition of Clark's work was organized by the Pasadena Museum of California Art and guest-curated by Jean Stern. More than forty drawings, oils and watercolors created over four decades were shown in Pasadena from January 20 – April 13, traveled to the Butler Institute of American Art from June 19 – August 3, and moved to the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, Massachusetts August 27 – October 19. A book,Timothy J. Clark, was published by Pomegranate Communications in Petaluma, California in January 2008. With a biographical essay by Mr. Jean Stern, director of California's Irvine Museum, and a critical essay by art historian and author Dr. Lisa E. Farrington, the book also served as a catalog for Clark's retrospective.
In 2009 Clark had a solo exhibition at Hammer Galleries in New York City which was reviewed in the March 2008 issue of Art Times. Another solo exhibition, Expressive Luminescence, opens at the Nevada Art Museum in Reno on December 18, 2010 and will be shown through April 24, 2011. The artist's work is represented by Hammer Galleries in New York City and was profiled in the July/August 2008 issue of Fine Art Connoisseur magazine.
Clark's awards include the William A. Paton Award at the National Academy's 175th Exhibition, the President's Award in 2003 and the Salzman Award in 2004 in the National Arts Club's annual exhibiting members show, and the Watercolor Award in the Allied Artists annual exhibition in 2005, all in New York City.
Paintings by Clark have been exhibited in international exhibitions at the Allied Museum in Berlin, Germany, the Danubiana Museum in Bratislava, Slovakia, the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, Turkey and the Rosenfeld Galleria in Juarez, Mexico.
Clark maintains studios in Southern California and Maine and has taught at the National Academy of Design in New York City, at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, and at the University of Hawaii in Hilo. Currently he teaches seasonally at the "Art Students League in New York" and at Yale University's Graduate School of Architecture's Continuity and Change program in Rome. "Watercolor magazine" named him one of the "20 Great Teachers in America" in Fall 2006.
The artist has three daughters, Regina Marie, Ginevra Ann, and Katherine Megan, from his first marriage. In 1991 he married Marriott Small Kohl, an executive in book publishing prior to partnering with Clark. Her image is often seen in Clark's interiors. Her inspiration and organizational skills have supported the focus and refinement in Clark's vision and direction.
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