Charles Clary

Charles Clary

Murfreesboro, TN

Best advice you’ve been givenWork hard everyday. No one owes you a chance, you've got to go out and get it, and always have two exhibitions ready to go at anytime.

Goals/AspirationsThat my career steadily keeps growing and garners more respect. I've never wanted a meteoric rise. Slow and steady and relevant is fine with me as it doesn't force the work to be anything that it's not.

Favorite artistDon't really have a favorite. Any artist that is meticulous and makes me wonder how their work was made is an inspiration.

What are you readingChroma phobia

Hope to learn how to Speak another language fluently

You spend a lot of time thinking aboutHow everything is so interconnected visually once the context is removed

Favorite musical artistHuge fan of Freddy Mercury

What do you do when not creating art Collecting medical oddities and art toys

This work questions the notion of microbial outbreaks and their similarity to the visual representation of sound waves, transforming them into something more playful. By layering paper I'm able to build land formations that mimic viral colonies and concentric sound waves. These strange landmasses contaminate and infect the surfaces they inhabit transforming the space into something suitable for their gestation.

Exhibitions

GroupFold, Paper, Scissors, 2014Mesa Contemporary Arts MuseumMesaAZ
GroupCut Paper2014Cornell Museum of ArtDelray BeachFL
GroupHugg-a-Diddle Serology2014Gadsden Museum of Art and HistoryGadsdenAL
SoloMicro-Diddlitis2014University of Mobile AlabamaMobileAL
SoloMeticulous Excavations2014The Rymer GalleryNashvilleTN
SoloEvery Angle: Paper Cut Formations2014Brett Wesley GalleryLas VegasNV
GroupART PAPERS Auction2014Saskia BenjaminAtlanta GA
GroupDogwood Arts Festival 2014Regional ShowKnowxvilleTN
GroupSan Diego Art Fair2013Patrajdas GallerySan DiegoCA
Group2013Nancy Margolis GalleryNew YorkNY
Flamanoma Stage 1 Movement #6
Flamanoma Stage 1 Movement #7
Drag-a-Diddle Hematoma
Drag-a-Diddle Carcinoma Movement #1
Drag-a-Diddle Workup #16
Flamanoma Stage 1 Movement #1
Paradiddleitis Movement #1
Patiflasmeobic Movement #4