TY NATHAN
CLARK

ARTIST STATEMENT

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Life has a genesis and a resolution. Many of us struggle with an interpretation of the personal story we are creating. Ty Nathan Clark’s work takes a critical view of the human memory. In his work the artist deconstructs a collaboration of ideas and experiences that exist from childhood to adulthood.

 

Having lived and engaged in life around the world the artist has spent several years researching and studying subjects as diverse as civil rights movements, social, economic, and cultural studies, theology/philosophy, pop culture, music, and prose. Ty’s work engages the discovery of memory and its existence through a fury of movements and texture.

 

Each body of work revolves through a specific expression of one’s personal journeys and the tension that exists in those memories. By using a variety of layers, medium, marks, texture, and deconstruction the artist can share a story in the same way one’s life is lived, through memories and experiences, from youth to adulthood, at times using text to provide clues to content and interpretation.

 

Every piece has a specific message that speaks through the story of one’s life and human condition, becoming intertwined between the two. The artist’s hope is that the work drives the viewer to an internal conversation of memory and meaning giving them clarity amongst the tension in contemporary life.

BIOGRAPHY

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Ty Nathan Clark has been creating in multiple genres since he was 4 years old. His uncle Conway “Jiggs” Pierson, the world-renowned Sculptor and Raku artist impacted his passion for the arts at an early age. In 2021 he began the “Ty Nathan Clark Artist Mentorship Program”, a program for established and emerging international artists, made up of 44 alumni from 15 countries around the world.

 

The artist has traveled to 5 continents while living, creating, and learning in over 20 countries and cultures around the world. Culture Trip named Ty one of ten contemporary artists in Austin to watch in 2017 and 2019. In 2019, his Award-Winning film Jump Shot was an official selection for SXSW Film Festival. Ty is currently working on an episodic documentary series and just completed his first novel.

 

Besides the influence of his uncle “Jiggs” Ty has studied under American sculptor William Catling and renown Japanese American abstract painter Makoto Fujimura. He has spearheaded collaborations with other artists, organizations, and communities around the world for the past two decades, advancing support and dialogue around issues regarding arts, culture, community building and culture care.

 

Over the years Ty has mentored many artists and entrepreneurs, and is committed to sharing his experience, knowledge, and gifts with others. He lives and creates from his studio in Waco, Texas, with his wife Mande and is currently represented in Los Angeles, Houston, Austin, Las Vegas, and New York.