Painting by Cathleen Clarke of four children in the snow

Drifters

Painting by Cathleen Clarke of two people in blue tone

Blue Angels

Painting by Cathleen Clarke of a person with a snow scoop and three trees in the background in blue

A New Path

Painting by Cathleen Clarke of a person sitting in the snow in blue

The Green Glove

Painting by Cathleen Clarke of a woman leaning into the wind with a blue and purple background

Troublesome Waters

Painting by Cathleen Clarke of a woman with a red scarf holding a wooden stick with a blue background

Whispering Wind

Painting by Cathleen Clarke of a woman lying down in a landscape

Winter's End

Painting by Cathleen Clarke of Northern lights with a face in

Northern Sky

Painting by Cathleen Clarke of a person in the dark and three trees in the background

Sparrow Nights

Workplace is pleased to present A New Path, the first UK solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based painter Cathleen Clarke.

Exhibited through midsummer, the show brings together a new body of work that looks back to the Midwestern winters of Clarke’s childhood. Isolated figures surface from vast immersive landscapes of glowing, hallucinogenic colour, holding the viewer between observation and recollection.

Clarke’s paintings are shaped by a preoccupation with the fragmented nature of memory, in particular how certain fleeting moments can imprint themselves vividly in the mind, whilst others recede into obscurity. Her intuitive and spontaneous approach echoes this process, with forms concurrently emerging from and retreating into the pictorial plane with equal intensity. Her ethereal subjects appear faintly remembered, held together by the slippery materiality of the oil paint.

In these quiet crepuscular scenes the everyday sits alongside the surreal; A lone figure shovelling snow or the fleeting impression of a snow angel are counterpointed with a face mysteriously hovering in the flickering green glow of the aurora borealis. Presenting these vignettes together casts the ordinary in an otherworldly light.

Clarke’s work is presented alongside a newly commissioned text by New York based writer Alja Zoe Freier.

Workplace is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn based artist Cathleen Clarke.

Installation views of Cathleen Clarke's solo exhibition 'A New Path' at Workplace London

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Experience Cathleen Clarke's first UK solo exhibition, showcasing ethereal paintings that blur memory and reality with vibrant colors and surreal figures.

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