Alex Clark

Area of Instruction at CPCC: Basic Acrylic Painting

About me: I love painting and people who enjoy painting; and I love helping people improve their ability to express themselves through painting.

Career accomplishments:

• BFA, Syracuse University (Painting)
• Work appeared as a featured artist in "New American Paintings," Volume 22, Open Studio Press, Wellesley, M.A.

Experience in your field:

• Formerly with Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, N.C. (15 years)
• McColl Center Residency (2000)
• Published "Great World Writers" (Marshall Cavendish, 2004)
• Artist Residency, Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, N.C.
• Painting Instructor, Tryon Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, N.C.
• Painting Instructor, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, N.C.

Additional areas of interest:

• Writing and illustration
• Proud father to the cutest little girl on the planet- ever!

Affiliations/recognitions:

• Charlotte Magazine "Best of Charlotte" issue, May 2000
• Charlotte Magazine, Charlotte Celebrity, "Best of Charlotte" issue
• Cloninger Ford/Toyota Merit Award, Waterworks 6^th Annual Regional Exhibition, Salisbury, N.C.
• Numerous private collections in the U.S. and abroad