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June Clark

Through her art practice, June Clark’s search for her place in the world is intensely personal but opens out onto the increasingly alienated world that we all share. Growing up in Harlem gives her a unique understanding of the contemporary world. The events of her life shape new understandings of the past. It is this encompassing self which gives her work its depth and relevance. Photographs, etchings, collage and 3D lead her to formulate methods of expression in order to communicate the intertwining of her past and her present. Clark’s practice has many levels and is never didactic. Clark pushes to integrate the direct knowledge and passion of her personal life with the public concerns of our time. Making art is a life commitment. Through her unique manipulation of materials she attempts to come to terms with the dimensions of personal experience. June Clark has earned a national and international reputation for her photo-based image works, installations and interventions. As an Artist-in-Residence she has spent more than a year in Paris, two years in New York City which included the Studio Museum in Harlem, and six months at OCAD. She has exhibited widely throughout Canada and abroad, including exhibitions in Ecuador, Austria, Paris and New York. She has taught studio and academic visual arts courses at a number of art schools, including York University, the University of Guelph, and the Ontario College of Art and Design. Clark has an MFA in visual arts from York University.
Creator Id: 128
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Virtual Collection: Original CCCA
Country of Birth: USA
Province of Birth: New York
Year of Birth: 1941
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Type of Creator: Artist
Gender: Female
Mediums: collage, photography, sculpture
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Work by June Clark

Untitled

Work ID: 22267

Measurements: 25.5 x 33.5 cm

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Shrine for the Men, [detail]

Work ID: 22271

Measurements: 14.4 x 10.4 x 10.4 cm

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Shrine for the Men

Work ID: 22268

Measurements: 14.4 x 10.4 x 10.4 cm

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Untitled

Work ID: 22272

Measurements: 8 x 5.6 cm

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Shrine for the Men, [detail]

Work ID: 22269

Measurements: 14.4 x 10.4 x 10.4 cm

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Shrine for the Men, [detail]

Work ID: 22270

Measurements: 14.4 x 10.4 x 10.4 cm

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Untitled

Work ID: 22273

Measurements: 11.2 x 15 cm

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Grandma said…

Work ID: 22274

Description: Text reads: Grandma said, "when you pick your husband, think of what your children will look like."

Measurements: 16 x 23 cm

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Untitled

Work ID: 22287

Description: Text reads: I used to think that they didn't like us because they thought that we were dirty. I developed the habit of washing four times a day.

Measurements: 53.9 x 42.1 cm

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Untitled, [detail]

Work ID: 22288

Description: boxwork

Measurements: 53.9 x 42.1 cm

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Formative Triptych ( Diptych I )

Work ID: 22275

Description: Text reads: I remember the day that, with the dictionary, Valerie showed me the word nigger. "So if anyone ever calls you that..."

Measurements: 48 x 60 cm

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Untitled, [detail]

Work ID: 22290

Description: boxwork

Measurements: 53.9 x 42.1 cm

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Formative Triptych ( Diptych II )

Work ID: 22276

Description: Text reads: "I always imagine that I never received anything as a child but I do remember being disappointed that the chocolate Easter Bunny was hollow...and then, of course, there was the red dustpan and broom set."

Measurements: 48 x 60 cm

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Formative Triptych ( Diptych III )

Work ID: 22277

Description: Text reads: "I decided that I must become so famous and so recognizable so that they could never let me die in an emergency room."

Measurements: 48 x 60 cm

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Untitled, [detail]

Work ID: 22289

Description: boxwork

Measurements: 53.9 x 42.1 cm

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22303

Description: boxworks (15 of 19 boxes)

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22301

Description: boxworks (15 of 19 boxes)

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Family Secrets, [installation view]

Work ID: 22293

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22298

Description: boxworks (15 of 19 boxes)

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22302

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22300

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22299

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22305

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22307

Description: boxworks (15 of 19 boxes)

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22297

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22295

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For When We Go Downtown, [Box with Table, detail]

Work ID: 22312

Measurements: 30.5 x 22 x 16 cm

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22296

Description: boxworks (15 of 19 boxes)

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22304

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For When We Go Downtown, [Box with Table, detail]

Work ID: 22310

Measurements: 30.5 x 22 x 16 cm

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22294

Description: boxworks (15 of 19 boxes)

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22308

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Circa Late 20th Century

Work ID: 22291

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Family Secrets, [detail]

Work ID: 22306

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Circa Late 20th Century (in situ)

Work ID: 22292

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For When We Go Downtown, [Box with Table, detail]

Work ID: 22311

Measurements: 30.5 x 22 x 16 cm

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For When We Go Downtown, [Box with Table]

Work ID: 22309

Measurements: 30.5 x 22 x 16 cm

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Untitled Triptych, [detail]

Work ID: 22315

Description: Text reads: And when she decided to break up with him he poured gasoline on her apartment door and set fire to it. In court, before letting him go, they said that it was because he had been in Viet Nam.

Measurements: 126.4 x 161.8 cm

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Whispering City, [detail 4 of 11]

Work ID: 22324

Description: Text reads:
The person we think we are; the person others think we are; the person we really are.

Measurements: 42.1 x 53.9 cm

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Whispering City, [detail 11 of 11]

Work ID: 22331

Description: Text reads:
Grey Saturday mornings remind me of when Mrs. Clark was stabbed underneath Mamay's window.

Measurements: 42.1 x 53.9 cm

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Whispering City, [installation view]

Work ID: 22320

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Whispering City, [detail 8 of 11]

Work ID: 22328

Description: Text reads:
She said, "If you put your menstrual blood in a man's food, he'll love you forever."

Measurements: 42.1 x 53.9 cm

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Untitled Triptych

Work ID: 22314

Description: Text reads: And when she decided to break up with him he poured gasoline on her apartment door and set fire to it. In court, before letting him go, they said that it was because he had been in Viet Nam.

Measurements: 126.4 x 161.8 cm

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Whispering City, [detail 2 of 11]

Work ID: 22322

Description: Text reads:
I always experienced overwhelming frustration when they began to spell.

Measurements: 53.9 x 42.1 cm

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Whispering City, [detail 10 of 11]

Work ID: 22330

Description: Text reads:
Also, going around the corner would be delicious in itself because we were forbidden to do so.

Measurements: 42.1 x 53.9 cm

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Untitled, [detail]

Work ID: 22318

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Whispering City, [detail 6 of 11]

Work ID: 22326

Description: Text reads:
You can't repent too soon for you don't know how soon it will be too late.

Measurements: 42.1 x 53.9 cm

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Whispering City, [detail 1 of 11]

Work ID: 22321

Description: Text reads:
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene I

Measurements: 53.9 x 42.1 cm

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Untitled Triptych, [detail]

Work ID: 22316

Description: Text reads: And when she decided to break up with him he poured gasoline on her apartment door and set fire to it. In court, before letting him go, they said that it was because he had been in Viet Nam.

Measurements: 126.4 x 161.8 cm

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Whispering City, [detail 9 of 11]

Work ID: 22329

Description: Text reads:
Janet Gardner was a great fascination for all of us because she had gotten her period.

Measurements: 42.1 x 53.9 cm

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Whispering City, [detail 7 of 11]

Work ID: 22327

Description: Text reads:
When she said, "You dirty little wench." I ran home to look it up in the dictionary.

Measurements: 42.1 x 53.9 cm

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Whispering City, [detail 5 of 11]

Work ID: 22325

Description: Text reads:
Even then I knew that people mistook kindness for weakness.

Measurements: 42.1 x 53.9 cm

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Whispering City, [detail 3 of 11]

Work ID: 22323

Description: Text reads:
Fine thank you. And you?

Measurements: 53.9 x 42.1 cm

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Untitled Triptych, [detail]

Work ID: 22317

Description: Text reads: And when she decided to break up with him he poured gasoline on her apartment door and set fire to it. In court, before letting him go, they said that it was because he had been in Viet Nam.

Measurements: 126.4 x 161.8 cm

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Tradition

Work ID: 22332

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Tradition, [detail]

Work ID: 22333

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Untitled

Work ID: 22337

Measurements: 14 x 5 cm

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Mon Mari

Work ID: 22335

Measurements: 14 x 7.8 cm

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Untitled

Work ID: 22336

Measurements: 14 x 7.8 cm

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ecnarF ne sergéN ed proTFrench Graffitti 1996

Work ID: 22338

Measurements: 11 x 18 cm

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Untitled

Work ID: 22339

Measurements: 23 x 2.5 cm

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Harlem Quilt, [detail]

Work ID: 22342

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Streetwise, [detail]

Work ID: 22347

Description: with Vladimir Cybil

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Streetwise, [detail]

Work ID: 22345

Description: with Vladimir Cybil

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Streetwise, [installation view]

Work ID: 22343

Description: with Vladimir Cybil

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Harlem Quilt

Work ID: 22340

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Streetwise, [detail]

Work ID: 22346

Description: with Vladimir Cybil

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Streetwise, [installation view]

Work ID: 22344

Description: with Vladimir Cybil

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Harlem Quilt, [detail]

Work ID: 22341

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Charlotte in red suedes

Work ID: 69346

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [installation view]

Work ID: 22370

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22373

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22389

Description: in studio

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Once…After, [installation view]

Work ID: 22350

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22377

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22381

Description: in studio

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22378

Description: in studio

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Once…After (Wall 1)

Work ID: 22351

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22382

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Once…After, [installation view]

Work ID: 22349

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22379

Description: in studio

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22387

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [installation view]

Work ID: 22369

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [installation view]

Work ID: 22365

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [installation view]

Work ID: 22366

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22374

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22385

Description: in studio

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22386

Description: in studio

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22384

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Once…After, [detail]

Work ID: 22363

Measurements: 12 x 12

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22383

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Once…After, [installation view]

Work ID: 22348

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [installation view]

Work ID: 22368

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22388

Description: in studio

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Psalm 103: Verse 16, [detail]

Work ID: 22380

Description: in studio

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Dirge 2003

Work ID: 55288

Measurements: 91.4 x 161.5 cm

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pur laine

Work ID: 55287

Measurements: 27.3 x 22.9 cm

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You, decide

Work ID: 69347

Measurements: 15 x 85 cm

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All Some Many

Work ID: 69349

Description: Wine and Tea Series.

Measurements: 40 x 40 cm

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Eclipse after Atget

Work ID: 69351

Description: Wine and Tea Series.

Measurements: 40 x 40 cm

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This American Flag, alas

Work ID: 69352

Description: Wine and Tea Series.

Measurements: 40 x 40 cm

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Invective Apology

Work ID: 69348

Description: Wine and Tea Series.

Measurements: 40 x 40 cm

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Tines of A

Work ID: 69353

Description: Wine and Tea Series.

Measurements: 40 x 40 cm

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Swingin’

Work ID: 69354

Description: Wine and Tea Series.

Measurements: 40 x 40 cm

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Cette petite piece

Work ID: 69350

Description: Wine and Tea Series.

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Poubelle Lune

Work ID: 69355

Description: Wine and Tea Series.

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