Jodi Clark, Untitled II – Bright and Bold Exhibition

Description

Jodi Clark Untitled II Acrylic on canvas 200 x 250 mm 

Jodi Clark is a Whanganui based artist, she spent three years at Whanganui School of Fine Arts and graduated from Elam, Auckland in 2002. She uses line and composition to make strong statements of form and the complexities of visual language. Current works are an exploration of colour, modernism, decoration and the syntax of shapes. Her work process is intrinsic to the end product, hundreds of sketches are made in a fairly un-calculated, free-flowing way – each one informing the next – and are edited down to a select few as a starting point for either gouache or acrylic paintings to be born. ‘I love the idea that symbolism shape and colour can be interpreted depending on the viewers life experience. Shape and composition are fascinating in the sense that they are trans-cultural and trans-historical. When the viewer asks what they should be seeing, I would rather they decide what they are seeing.’