“Our history takes place in obscurity and the sun I carry with me must lighten every corner.” - Franz Fanon
A Place in The Sun features a collection of paintings and quilted works that illuminate the narratives of Sean G. Clark’s family members as means of documentation and agency building. The subjects in the show investigate the lives of matriarchs in his family with the intention of establishing a historical record for his daughter to inherit.
Sean G. Clark is a Black Southern artist grounded in an artistic practice that surveys themes of health and African-American history. His practice involves a deeper consideration of a person's internal landscape and how we think, feel, and act due to the impacts of unresolved grief. At the center of his creative practice are abstract and figurative works that seek to capture internal narratives, specifically of Black lives, Black bodies and Black family histories.
Sean grounds his work initially in the abstract. He centers scale in his work, using size and detail to inform viewers of the enormity of impact that small things have. As he continues to develop his work, Sean aims to blur the line further between abstraction, quilting, and figurative works, while maintaining themes of the unseen, internal narratives of people in his community and family.
