Melissa F. Clarke is a Brooklyn NY based multi-media artist. She was born in Syracuse NY, and has also lived in Washington D.C. a large part of her life. Her video, photography, sound, and installation work has exhibited at places such as the Queens Museum of Art Gallery at Bullova Center and Issue project Room. Clarke co-produced, art directed, and designed for two feature length films. She has also produced videos and sound pieces for collaborations and commissions.

Clarke re-contextualizes and often layers material to create sharply honed pieces that portray perceptually fluctuating moments. Often her work breaks into the physical chaos beneath the story, and the poetical, in conceptually divertive ways. The evoked experience - morphing place and time with seemingly infinite transition, into a sublime, strange, and fragmented world. Her work consistently delves into the juxtaposition of the surreal, fantastical, poetic and ordinary. Emerging without protagonists, is a shifting place between sense memory and temporal traces of physical events. Clarke challenges, permeates and breaks apart the surfaces that she builds within her compositions, to belie our perception of honesty, validity being in the resolved.

 

   
 



 
   
All Images, video and sound / Copyright Melissa Clarke