CLARK BIOGRAPHY

Sandra Russell Clark, a native of New Orleans, began her photographic career in 1978. Ms. Clark was Director of Photography at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans from 1980 to 1985 and in the early 90's she taught photography at Loyola University. Clark's photographs have appeared in numerous magazines including Vogue, Elle, Mirabella, The Traveler and American Artist.

During the 1980's Clark's work was represented and exhibited by A Gallery for Fine Photography, NOLA, Benteler-Morgan Gallery, Houston, Texas, Witkin Gallery, New York ,N.Y. and Virginia Miller Gallery in Coral Gables, Fla. Her work was included in exhibitions at S.E.C.C.A, Winston Salem, NC, Guild Hall Museum, Easthampton, NY ,Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Museum of Art and Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans, and Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco, Ca.

In 1985 Clark received a grant from private sponsors to fund her European garden project "Gardens of Reflection". A solo exhibition from this series opened in New Orleans at Julia Gallery in 1987. Ms. Clark's "Garden" series was selected to represent the Houston Fotofest at the 1989 Torino Fotografia Biennale Internationale in Torino,Italy.

During the 1990's Clark's work was included in many important exhibitions, such as, "Inspired Visions 1840-1990,Master Photography from N.O.M.A." and "Figure/Ground; Louisiana Photography Today" at the New Orleans Museum of Art . Her work was also exhibited in "Touched by Man, Landscape Photographs from Around the World", Corpus Christi State University, Texas, and "Louisiana Contemporaries", University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana, as well as many group and solo exhibits.

Ms. Clark's exhibits abroad included the 1991 traveling exhibition "Bilder Lust", Erotic Photography from the Uwe Scheid Collection,which was presented at the Altes Museum, Berlin, Galerie Rhanitzgasse der Landeshauptstadt Sachsens, Dresden and Museum Ludwig, Koln. Later that same year,her work was presented at the Braga Fotofestival in Portugal. Ms. Clark had a solo exhibit of her Louisiana landscapes in 1993 at the Museu du Imagem e do Som in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Between 1993 and '94, under the sponsorship of patrons, both corporate and private collectors, Ms. Clark spent four months in Italy photographing "Venice, A Vanishing Light". An exhibition, sponsored by the Consul of Italy, opened in New Orleans at the Breeden Dawson Gallery. Clark has been working on a book from this series of photographs and is currently seeking a publisher.

While in Venice Clark was inspired by the haunting cemetery island of San Michele and in 1995 she turned her focus to the unique aboveground cemeteries of her native New Orleans. In the Fall of 1997 Louisiana State University Press published Ms. Clark's book of photographs,"Elysium, A Gathering of Souls, New Orleans Cemeteries." An exhibition, sponsored by a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, opened at the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans and has been traveling to museums and universities throughout Louisiana. In 1998 Clark was invited to lecture and exhibit "Elysium" at the William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Conn. Clark's work was also selected for presentation at Place du Forum for the 1998 edition of "Le Festival Off" which is presented at the Recontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles in France.

Ms. Clark is now working on a new series and book project "In Search of Eden”. Selected images were presented at A Gallery for Fine Photography in New Orleans, during the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition in 2000, and at AIPAD NY 2001 by Fay Gold Gallery from Atlanta, Ga. In Summer 2001, Ms. Clark’s new work was exhibited at the Mississippi Museum of Art's, Mississippi Invitational, a survey of contemporary Mississippi artists curated by Loius Grachos, Director of SITE Santa Fe.

Ms. Clark's exhibitions for 2003 include East End Gallery, Nantucket, MA, Work in Progress; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS; Tulane University; Carroll Gallery, New Orleans; Phototroph Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO.

Ms. Clark is represented by:
A Gallery for Fine Photography 241 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130 504-568-1313 ______________	Fay Gold Gallery 746 Miami Circle, Atlanta, GA, 30324 404-233-3843 ______________
Gallery 119 3017 N. State Street, Jackson, MS, 39216 601-366-5141 ______________	Southside Gallery 150 Courthouse Square, Oxford, MS, 38655 662-234-9090 ______________
Jayne Baum Gallery 26 Grove Street, New York, NY, 10014 212-255-9286 ______________	East End Gallery 3 Old North Wharf, Nantucket, MA, 02564 508-228-4515 ______________
Phototroph Gallery 218 West Colorado Ave., Suite 111, Colorado Springs, CO, 80903 719-442-6995 ______________	Fountainside Gallery 1900 Eastwood Road, Suite 44, Wilmington, N.C., 28403 910-256-9956 ______________

The photographs of Sandra Russell Clark are included in many museum, corporate, and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, La.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tx.
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS
Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tenn.
Guild Hall Museum, Easthampton, N.Y.
William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, Conn.
Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans, La.
Pennsylvania Art Conservatory, Pa.

Paine Webber, New York, Chicago, Florida, New Orleans
IBM, Washington, D.C.
R.J. Reynolds, N.C.
AT&T, Tx.
Prudential Insurance Company, N.J.
Atlantic Richfield
Banana Republic, Ca.
Saks Fifth Avenue, NY.

1983 "Artist Fellowship" Louisiana State Arts Council
1985 American Photographer magazine "New Faces" nominee
1988&1998 "Artist Profile" film from WYES-TV
1996 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities-Research and Publication Grant
1997 Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities-Mini Grant
1997 The Mary Ellen LoPresti Award for Excellence in Art Publishing from the Southeast Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America for "Elysium, A Gathering of Souls, New Orleans Cemeteries"

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Ms. Clark lectures and has given many private workshops in New Orleans and Venice, Italy. Workshops have been on Personal Vision, Infrared Photography and Handcoloring.
Please email: sandrarclark@bellsouth.net for more information .