Julianne Clark

Title: Milkweed

Artist Statement: In my studio practice, I tell stories about natural spaces and home through the lens of memory. I combine collected photographs, created images, videos, and objects into vignettes in order to bring forth narratives about generational family relationships in context with The Southern landscape. Using both the past and present, real and fabricated, I invoke comparisons between people and nature, life and decay, creation and destruction. I represent both shared and individual dreams and memories. I use the natural world, domesticity, and industrial landscapes as stages for incantation to call forth these memories and dreams. On a broad scale, my work asks the viewer to consider how degradation of the land relates to erosion of family and community.

Bio: Julianne Clark is a teaching artist and 2020 graduate with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the University of Tulsa. She previously achieved a Cum Laude Bachelor of Arts in Photography at the University of Arkansas, with minors in Art History and Psychology. Julianne taught Visual Art and Photography in the Oklahoma public school system for seven years, and was recognized as the Oklahoma State Art Educator in 2016. In 2019-2020, she served as an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, facilitating interdisciplinary after-school activities for junior high and high school gardening club students in order to increase health and well-being for participants. Julianne volunteers with many regional and national arts organizations, including the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition and the Society for Photographic Education. Her personal work often questions the reality of photography as a representation of truth.

Artist’s Website: www.julianneclark.com

Work Location: Tulsa People Magazine, June 2020, p. 23