Art professor Clary has exhibit at Myrtle Beach Art Museum
Charles Clary's Infect[ious] Installations
Through Thursday, April 21
Franklin G. Burroughs-Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum of Myrtle Beach
Charles Clary of Morristown, Tenn., assistant professor of art at Coastal Carolina University, teaches studio art. Using hand-cut, layered paper to build intriguing land formations that mimic viral colonies and concentric sound waves, Clary challenges viewers to suspend disbelief and venture into his fabricated reality.
In 2013, Clary lost his parents, two weeks apart, to smoking-related cancers. Clary channeled his grief into creating conceptual ideas for his art. Thinking of cancer, a disease that is a perfectly structured killer, beautiful in its architecture but grotesque in its eventuality, and also of nostalgia, the longing for childhood and for his parents, Clary was inspired to explore drywall and discarded wallpaper as a medium. Incorporating wallpapered drywall into his colorful, hand-constructed paper landscapes, Clary presents us with the ideas of order from chaos, beauty from destruction and hope for more joyous times.
Clary was born in 1980 in Morristown. He received his BFA in painting with honors from Middle Tennessee State University and his MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design.
He has shown in exhibitions at Galerie EVOLUTION-Pierre Cardin in Paris, France, completed a three-week residency in Lacoste France, completed a painting assistantship with Joe Amrhein of Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn NYC, and had work acquired by fashion designer Pierre Cardin and gallery owner James Cohan. Clary has been featured in numerous print and Internet interviews including, This is Colossal, WIRED magazine (US and UK), Hi Fructose, Beautifuldecay.com and Bluecanavs Magazine. He has also been featured in publications including 500 Paper Objects,Paper Works,Paper Art,Papercraft 2,PUSH: Paper and The New Twenties.
Clary has exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally in numerous solo and group shows, is represented by Diana Lowenstein Gallery in Miami, FL, and Patrajdas Contemporary Gallery in Ogden, Utah. Clary currently lives and works in Conway.
