Past, Current, and Future Exhibitions
“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin
Artist, Alisa E. Clark's Exhibition Statement
9th Annual Trinity Art Show: National Juried Exhibition, 2025
In this work, I carry a strange, grounding journey—one I remember step by step, still sensing His touch, His presence, His message. Though my faith has been deconstructed, this encounter remains a truth I cannot deny. Aligned with the call to explore the Christian experience in contemporary life, this piece reflects a faith drawn not from certainty but from lived encounter. Rooted in mercy more than sacrifice, it reveals that even in brokenness, grace endures.
From Where I Glean My Faith, 2022
Exhibition Dates: October 4th through November 9th, 2025
@ The Lexis Gallery at Trinity Cathedral, Sacramento, CA
“Off Center: Art that Pushes Boundaries” 2025 National Juried Exhibition
In Story Box and Peek Inside, ordinary relics become vessels of memory, embodying the “ghosts” that linger within the objects we keep. A nest, chair, crucifix, and fragments of music and time are reimagined as shrines where nostalgia, faith, and identity converge. These assemblages transform the familiar into something uncanny and poetic, revealing how personal histories dwell in material things and asking us to consider what lingers—and what speaks—through the objects that surround us.
Story Box, 2024
Peek Inside, 2024
Exhibition Dates: October 3rd through November 1st, 2025 @ the South Haven Center for the Arts
“The Ghosts that Linger” 2025 National Juried Exhibition
In Enshrined and Infant of Prague, I transform familiar devotional objects into assemblage shrines that move beyond traditional boundaries of sacred art. By reimagining wooden boxes as altars, layering rosaries, flowers, music, and icons with found elements, these works expand devotion into spaces of memory, story, and contemporary reflection. Both pieces push the boundary between personal and communal faith, blending reverence with reinterpretation and inviting viewers to encounter devotion in unexpected, off-center ways.
Enshrined, 2024
Infant of Prague, 2024
Exhibition Dates: October 3rd through November 1st, 2025 @ the Northville Art House
Uncanny 2025 National Juried Exhibition
@ the Indiana University Art Gallery, Kokomo, IN
Octi Eye blends humor and the uncanny—his single eye peers out from rusted metal. His limbs are like antennae searching for a signal. He’s meant to spin but sits eerily still. Part toy, part relic, part watcher, Octi lingers in the mind, unsettling in his desire to make us laugh uncomfortably.
Octi Eye, 2025
Exhibition Dates: June 4th through June 25th, 2025
Misinformation 2025 Regional Juried Exhibition, Adrian Center for the Arts
Fooled By Some Fool is about disinformation and blind choices. Two doorknobs invite selection, but truth remains uncertain. Letters spiral the frame, warning: “You pick a door and believe it’s truth… but what if you have been fooled by some fool?” Are we “choosing” or are we deceived?
“Scrambled Brains and Toast” is a sculpture about misinformation. Two identical toast slices—one labeled “Truth”, the other “Lies”—show how deception mimics fact. A mixer scrambles “brains,” symbolizing confusion in a world where fake news looks real and real news looks fake.
Fooled By Some Fool: Recipient of the “Juror’s Choice Award”
Scrambled Brains and Toast and Fooled By Some Fool, 2025
Exhibition Dates: April 14th through May 17th, 2025
Shrines, Altars, and Spiritual Things, By Alisa E. Clark, 2025
In “Shrines, Altars, and Spiritual Things,” Alisa guides readers on a transformative journey through the intersection of art and spirituality. This book delves into three-dimensional explorations, encouraging us to navigate life’s liminal spaces by crafting personal “shrines, altars, and spiritual things” imbued with sacred meaning. Alisa shares her own creative journey, offering images of her assemblage altars, shrines, and spiritual works, along with QR codes linking to YouTube videos for a more immersive experience.
Stories in Stiches National Juried Exhibition 2025 @ Northville Art House
More than fantasy, “Je Vois La Vie: I See Life” holds history and memory. Vintage crochet doilies, fabrics, and linens from my childhood home (stiffened with textile medium) form the fairies and the orb. The illuminated fibers cast a warm glow, linking past and present. With a simple spin, viewers enter a realm where the impossible feels within reach and stories of the past come to life.
Nothing sparked my imagination like the spinning whirligigs above my nursery, filling my earliest memories with movement and wonder. This nostalgic sculpture weaves fiber and craft elements—macrame, yarn, pom-poms, pipe cleaners, buttons, beads, and found objects—capturing the textures and joyful creativity of “Childhood.”
I See Life and Childhood, 2025
Exhibition Dates: May 30th through June 28th, 2025
Water Ways: Reflect and Connect 2025 at the South Haven Center for the Arts
The monoprints of the frogs and the happy tortoise connect to Water Ways: Reflect and Connect by highlighting different relationships with water. The frogs, in a dry place where they need water to thrive, appear unhappy, emphasizing their reliance on it for survival. In contrast, the tortoise, requiring little water, is content in its dry, sunny environment. Together, they reflect on water’s essential yet varied role in sustaining life and water’s power to connect and nurture all living beings.
Waiting for Rain and Basking in the Balance, 2024
Exhibition Dates: May 10th through June 14th, 2025
Ofrendas 2024, Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA)
My final ofrenda includes memorabilia from “Ottillie’s Basket,” this allowed me to interlace our family narrative (on my father’s side) within this vessel. My Ofrenda also honors Yaya, my deceased Greek grandmother (on my mother’s side), inspired by her portable shrine, the iconostasis. These two altars spoke to me of our history (both familial and spiritual) and inspired me to include them in my Ofrenda. Combining elements from family memorabilia, the Greek iconostases, Ottillie’s Basket, and traditional Ofrendas—marigolds, candles, photos, butterflies, skulls, perforated paper, bread, water, salt, grapes and wine, prayer beads, photographs, and other tokens of remembrance—allowed me to adopt new symbolism and connect it to my own spiritual and artistic roots, within my shrine. Through creating this altar, I explore cross-cultural connections while celebrating love and honoring the deceased through a shared act of remembrance.
My Ofrendas 2024 @ the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA)
Exhibition Dates: September 28 – November 3, 2024
Some Assembly Required Juried Exhibition, 2024
@ the Suzanne Haskew Arts Center
Owl Be Looking at You, 2024 (Honorable Mention)
Presenter for the Three Day Immersive “Some Assembly Required” Assemblage Art Workshop, 2024
2024 Small Works All Media National Juried Exhibition
Created to merge functionality with humor, Hairy Harry holds a toilet paper roll, Multitasking Mom sharpens a pencil, and Boring Bob holds a writing implement when it’s not in use. This series of three assemblage sculptures invites viewers to step into a world where art and humor coexist, where the unexpected can bring joy and provoke thought. These sculptures are an exploration of the boundaries between functionality and artistic expression, blending practicality with a touch of the absurd. They seek to amuse those who delight in the unconventional and who appreciate the courage to create something different.
Multitasking Mom, Boring Bob, and Hairy Harry, 2024
Exhibition Dates: November 15 – December 14, 2024 at the Northville Art House
Sacred and Liturgical 2024 National Juried Exhibition
@ the M.G. Nelson Gallery, Springfield, IL
I paint the shores on which I walked with Him. It’s where I learned that I would completely mess everything up upon my return from this surreal and magnificent place. I saw that I could be my broken self, and that would be enough. I see that I didn’t fully capture this experience. I really bit off much more than I can chew here. Visions are wholly intangible. I’m glad for my attempts anyway. They seared this experience, that transcended my brokenness, into my heart with my paintbrush.
Exhibition Dates: May 3rd to May 31st, 2024
Every Picture Tells a Story 75th Annual Themed Exhibition
For the member’s call Every Picture Tells a Story, I created five works inside picture frames, removing the original 2D images and using the frames to inspire new narratives. I didn’t stay within their borders; instead, I expanded outward, turning the frames into vessels for 3D reliefs. Choosing two for the exhibit was difficult, but I selected Good Saint Ann and Number 3 for their shared voice, unity, and their assemblage echoes of times past—inviting viewers to remember and retell their own stories.
This exhibition was on display at the South Haven Center for the Arts
Exhibition Dates: May 11th through June 15th, 2024
Fantastical 2024: National Juried Exhibition
I create magical places with a tear, a drip, a brushstroke, and a pencil line. This imaginary world is curious and strange. Bees dance, the sun shines, and a strange city lies ahead in the distant valley. Imagination fuels my creation and invites the viewer to step into a fantastical world.
Exhibition Dates: August 17th through September 21st 2024 at the South Haven Center for the Arts
Layers of Hope: Episcopal Church and Visual Arts (ECVA), 2024
Following the loss of my parents, I became the keeper of our family’s past, collecting memorabilia in a basket that traces its origins back to my grandmother’s journey from Straubing, Germany to Ellis Island in 1918. This memorabilia turned into a collection of iterations and a final altered book (which includes those same iterations). My creative process evolved into a collaborative journey, inviting perspectives from a wider circle to expand the narrative, a testament to the power of community in shaping our stories. In a world that sometimes feels overshadowed by darkness and chaos, I searched for hope in life’s unfolding moments. In “Ottillie’s Basket,” I wove together fragments of family history into a narrative of expectancy and promise.
This Exhibit was on Display through ECVA in 2024
Holy Presence: Episcopal Church and Visual Arts (ECVA), 2024
I created two assemblage pieces to connect myself to some of my earliest spiritual experiences. My Aunt Julie, and avid Catholic, has several little religious shrines in her room. They had little doors and inside those doors I met Mary and Jesus for the first time. Remaking these little shrines make me feel connected to God. I look at these pieces, and I feel I captured the wonder I found in Aunt Julie’s little shrines. It is my hope that others who might otherwise miss the “wonder” will look at these works and feel pulled towards God. I hope they inspire people to ask questions, seek, and be fascinated by spiritual things. May they want to open the doors, peek inside, and meet Him.
This Exhibit was on Display through ECVA in 2024
Fields of Vision Regional Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, 2024
Not thrilled by the coming of winter. I don’t like to be cold. It is beautiful, though. Capturing the beauty offsets the chill. I do like the way things settle down during the wintry months. January and February come with a quieting. This year, maybe I’ll embrace the ground frost.
The exhibition will be on display in CTAC-Petoskey’s Gilbert Gallery
Exhibition Dates: January 13 to February 24, 2024
32nd Annual Milford Memories: Art in the Village Exhibiting Artist, 2024
I was honored to be an Exhibiting Artist at the 32nd Annual Milford Memories: Art in the Village (2024). My booth featured a vibrant collection of mixed media works, from colorful abstract paintings to layered textural pieces, celebrating memory, mystery, and the spiritual. It was a joy to connect with the community, share my creative process, and showcase artwork that invites conversation, imagination, and reflection.
Exhibition Dates: August 9th through August 11th, 2024
Faith in Motion: Episcopal Church and Visual Arts (ECVA), 2023
I’ve never done much in the way of video editing. I played around with the software and accidentally made discoveries that said it better than I intended. I set out to weave a “collection” of still images together- starting with the images and video and then adding the audio. When I started layering other sounds with the audio track (the sounds of the birds, the wind, and other creatures) my theme, This Is God,” became clear
This Exhibit was on Display through ECVA in 2023
International Society of Experimental Artists’ International Juried Exhibition:
ISEA Utterly Unfathomable and Powerfully Profound, 2023
I enshrined several pieces of memorabilia on my painting surface- atypical choices driven by nostalgia instead of aesthetics: a timepiece, a button from my mother’s jacket, and a pin that was in my father’s memory box. Normally, I paint on a canvas, but this time I used multilayered cardboard. I peeled back the top layer from sections of the cardboard to reveal a layer of “honeycombs” underneath. I experimented with epoxy resin by filling the “combs” with dripping epoxy “honey.” I found some bee corpses inside my yellow jacket traps. I was glad for the loss of the jackets (I’m highly allergic), but I mourned the carpenter bees. This “mourning” triggered my first attempt at taxidermy and the subsequent incorporation of this experimentation into my work. I successfully removed the remaining debris from the abdomens of the carpenter bees, preserved them in resin, and placed them in and around the honeycombs. They are now a much-needed sign of hope amidst nostalgia and mourning.
Much Needed Signs of Hope and New Life, 2023
Honored to Share My Art with the First Presbyterian Church of NYC
My works Beneath It All and Much Needed Signs of Hope and New Life were featured in various bulletins and publications by First Presbyterian Church in the City of New York. Selected for their contemplative and uplifting themes, these pieces supported the church’s visual ministry during seasons of reflection and renewal.
Beneath It All and Much Needed Signs of Hope and New Life, 2023
2023 Small Works All Media National Juried Exhibition
I would never have imagined that I would find myself on the outside. My old beliefs gave me a sense of belonging and my beliefs were validated by the people around me. That was when I was thinking inside the box. Now, I am “Outside the Box”: a misfit, outlier, dissenter, and even a bit of a deviant. I could have kept the box closed, folded all the simmering thoughts away, and locked the box tight. Instead, I let it open, and I let myself try life outside of it. The bud represents the unfurling of new thoughts, beliefs, and convictions lying within me and on the precipice of being released. The burgeoning flower in the box represents the unfolding of my mind. This unfolding is a flourishing of what was once buried. “Old Me” and “New Me.”
Old Me, New Me, 2023
Outside the Box, 2023
Exhibition Dates: November 10th through December 16th, 2023
South Haven Center for the Arts Guest Juror
Experimentation, Exploration, and Exuberance: Give It a Try!
Alisa E. Clark, Juror for “Give it a Try!”, is an avid acrylic painter, sculptor, collage maker, and experimental assemblage artist who believes all artists can all benefit from stepping outside of their comfort zone and plunging into the experimental. With the opportunity to share exploratory works with other artists and the community, new discoveries sprout. The call to “Give it a try!” is an invitation to share new ideas and techniques through the creation and sharing of experimental works. Artists can answer this call by creating with a new medium, trying an unfamiliar artistic discipline, or creating something for a brand-new purpose: the possibilities for multi-media experimentation are endless. You get to decide how you will “Give It a Try!”
Exhibition Dates: September 30 through November 4, 2023 at the South Haven Center for the Arts
Guest Artist & Presenter at Suzanne Haskew Art Center:
“Things to Consider When Art Making” (2023)
On Wednesday, June 28, the Village Fine Arts Center in Milford, Michigan hosted an inspiring art workshop open to the public. The evening began with a casual mingle at 6:30 p.m., followed by a thought-provoking presentation at 7:00 p.m. The speaker, Alisa E. Clark, explored “Things to Consider When Art Making,” encouraging artists to trust their creative process, let go of self-judgment, and create with confidence. Attendees left feeling more connected, motivated, and open to the possibilities within their own artistic journeys.
Alisa E. Clark: Artist of the Year Juror at the Suzanne Haskew Art Center
Muskegon Museum of Art 94th Michigan Contemporary Juried Art Exhibition
My first experience scuba diving left me wanting to touch everything I saw. Touching, however, is not allowed. I added 3D fiber elements to this 2D painting to rediscover the wonders I saw in the deep waters and allow myself to finally touch them.
Beneath It All, 2022
Exhibition Dates: September 28th through November 8th, 2023 at the Muskegon Museum of Art
Under the Big Top National Juried Exhibition
From the “Right Now,” I explore memories of “Yesterday” while reaching for possibilities within “What’s Next.” My liminal creations invite people on little adventures through time and space: fantastical journeys with the power to reach into the past, release imagination to the present moment, and explore imaginative possibilities in tomorrow. “Ten Rides on the Carousel” is a liminal journey back to one of my earliest recollections: my first trip to Central Park. No child would forget one ride on the park’s intricately carved, colorful creatures rising up and down in tandem upon the spinning, bejeweled platform. For me, it wasn’t just one ride. I got ten rides. These moments are quite ubiquitous: if not of a carousel, then it’s the memory is of some other primary, magical experience that’s seared into memory. The piece de resistance of “Ten Rides on the Carousel” is grasping the handle of the hand drill and driving the gears to make the carousel spin. I’d like to believe this creation would fascinate young children while simultaneously igniting memories of circuses, amusements parks, and other enthralling possibilities for people of all ages. Spanning time, “Ten Rides on the Carousel” is a gateway backwards and forwards from “Right Now” thus making all moments in time “in tandem.”
Ten Rides on the Carousel, 2023
Exhibition Dates: July 15th, 2023 at the Vestige Concept Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA
2023 Genesis International Juried Exhibition
In Partnership with the Jewish Art Salon and CARAVAN, NYC, NY
My most recent body of work explores the theme of liminality. This theme, in great part, is concerned with the passing of time. “Time and Space” is about inception: when nothing became something. I tried to capture “the beginnings” that came from what, I imagine, was a completely empty space. This is what I see when I close my eyes and imagine that the clock just started ticking.
Time and Space, 2019
Exhibition Dates: May 1st, 2023 at the Interchurch Center in NYC, NY
Regional Juried Exhibition at the Kavanagh Gallery: From the Earth
My father was a scientist. He supplied me with a microscope and a rotating supply of slides to study: cells, algae, and other snippets from nature. We’d dig for slide samples from the earth or in the pond. “Under the Microscope” is inspired by all the strange and wonderful things I discovered. We also scraped the bottom of the pond with a strainer. We brought up tadpoles, and I studied their growth under various conditions. Arms and legs sprouted. Sometimes, a mutation emerged. “Look What Crawled Out of the Earth” is influenced by my many strange discoveries. I will often hunt for natural elements that interest me: unusual finds that remind me of my nature studies with Dad. “From the Earth” is a call that provided an opportunity to pick from my “finds” and then recreate my past discoveries. Artistic license freed me to add a twist of imagination to my creations. My unconventional choices were fueled by the surprises unearthed beneath the lens of my old microscope.
Under the Microscope and Look What Crawled Out of the Earth, 2023
Exhibition Dates: Opens June 29th, 2023 at the Kavanagh Gallery
The Art of a Story ~ 13th Annual National Juried Exhibit
I used a book I had written about my painting process to create “Memories.” The chance to capture “Memories” in 3D required me to alter the original text to add depth and dimension. I had to put aside my 2D canvases and find a new way to move in and out of space. Similarly, I decided to use a book that I once wrote about my art process as my canvas. “Journey” was made from this personal story. I altered it and embellished it with dimensional elements holding deep personal meaning. 3D expressions of my story let the viewer move through moments that have happened, are happening, and are to come. This creates an awareness of time shifting and changing: a liminal experience. This new process helps me better journey to Back Then, Right Now, and towards Tomorrow. Altering my autobiographical stories helped me express myself from many perspectives simultaneously.
Journey and Memories, 2023
Exhibition Dates: Opens on June 9th, 2023 at the Village Theatre Art Gallery, Danville, CA
Journey was Featured on the Carousel at the Top of the Gallery Page
ECVA: The Power in Creating a Series
I imagined the world as it began. Beauty springing forth from nothing. Time nonexistent and then existing. Liminality birthed. I then made several attempts at recreating it: what happened “in the beginning.” The first piece, Genesis 1, was intended to be five individual sculptures of angels in a series culminating in a final piece incorporating all the angels poised around a glowing “new earth.” Genesis 2, Genesis 3, and Genesis 4 incorporated angels into different “lighter” interpretations of Earth’s beginning. The butterflies in all four pieces are a reference to creatures “that may fly above the earth.” Genesis 1-4 are all on rotating bases made from wood and stained to appear as though covered in water. I have spent most of my life painting, but my new explorations in sculpture allowed me to capture more of what I imagine when I read Genesis 1. My favorite 3D part of all these pieces is the “glow.” The use of literal LED “light” (for me) captures a greater sense of God’s presence and power “in the beginning.”
Genesis 1-4, 2023
Genesis 4 was featured inside the Episcopal Journal and Cafe
This Exhibit was on Display through ECVA in 2023
Great Northern Art Explosion International Juried Exhibition
Genesis 2 is on a rotating base made from maple wood and finshed to look like sky and water. The “glow” of literal “light” (for me) captures a greater sense of creation and its power “in the beginning.” “Plastic Menagerie” depicts a variety of plastics mixed with underwater life. Despite the dangers of plastics, “Plastic Menagerie” is teeming with life. Danger looms, but the message is, “It’s not too late.” “Plastic Menagerie” points to reusable options to slow climate change.
Genesis 2 and Plastic Menagerie, 2023
Exhibition Dates: AuSable Artisan Village, from August 25th to September 10th, 2023
Merged: d'Art's Third National Juried Exhibition of Collage and Assemblage
I used both collage and assemblage to create my way through “My Journey.” I have included Yesterday, Right Now, and Tomorrow all at once through my creative process. I used gelli plate collage papers to cover the flaps and doors that open and close. I also incorporated hand drawings on paper and a reimagined lamp base, so the assemblage can spin with the turn of your hand. I wanted the viewer to move through time, place, and space. Doing this three dimensionally and interactively creates an awareness of time shifting and changing: a liminal experience.
My Journey, 2022
Exhibition Dates: January 7, 2023 through Saturday, February 4, 2023 at the D’Art Center
Small Works Juried All Media National Juried Exhibition
Using color, form, and line, I create in the present while wondering about Yesterday. I also seize “Right Now” while peeking into “What’s Next.” My liminal creations in this exhibit invite you to join me on creative, imaginative journeys through time and space. These works are little adventures in the “Here and Now.”
“Swimming Deeper” and “Unexpected Choices,” 2022
Exhibition Dates: Northville Art House from November 12th through December 17th, 2022
Muskegon Museum of Art 93rd Juried Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition
The paper flowers that wrap around this sculpture are meant to evoke a feeling of life bursting from the earth in spring. They are covered with a light dusting of snow which appears to be melting. This sculpture spins on its base and has a wind-up music box that plays the song “Edelweiss.”
Edelweiss, 2022
Exhibition Dates: Muskegon Museum of Art from October 6th through November 3rd
Innovations 2022 Annual International Open Juried Exhibition
International Society of Experimental Artists (ISEA)
I wanted to paint myself from the inside out. Working in 3D was a must. I also needed portals: doors, sky, air, water, and a way to move in and out of space. Experimenting with 2D and 3D expressions of these gateways was wholly necessary. This is my “old style” mixed with a new execution.
Self Portrait, 2022
Exhibition Dates: Art Gallery of St. Albert, in St. Alberta, Canada from August 18th through October 1st, 2022
Everything Folds and Unfolds Regional Juried Exhibition
These two sculptures represent the unfurling of new thoughts, beliefs, and convictions lying within me and on the precipice of being released. The burgeoning flower in one box represents the unfolding of my mind. This unfolding is a flourishing of what was once buried: “Old Me” and “New Me.” My old beliefs gave me a sense of belonging and my beliefs were validated by the people around me. That was when I was thinking inside the box. Now, I am “Outside the Box”: a misfit, outlier, dissenter, and even a bit of a deviant. I could have kept the box closed, folded all the simmering thoughts away, and locked the box tight. Instead, I let it open, and I let myself try life outside of it.
“Outside the Box” and “Old Me, New Me,” 2022
Exhibition Dates: South Haven Center for the Arts from September 23rd through November 5th, 2022
(re)bound: the altered book International Juried Exhibition
I painted my way through my journey. I have included Yesterday, Right Now, and Tomorrow all at once. The flaps and doors that open and close let the viewer move through time, place, and space. Doing this three dimensionally creates an awareness of time shifting and changing: a liminal experience.
My Journey, 2022
Exhibition Dates: South Haven Center for the Arts, June 10 through July 23, 2022
A2AC Juried Gallery Exhibit Open Call
The A2AC Gallery is in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The gallery exhibits works which support its goal to “emerge as a catalyst for connection, conversation, and creative exploration through participation.” Alisa E. Clark’s work will be on display and for sale at A2AC throughout the 2022-2023 exhibition year.
In the Ocean and Time and Space, 2022
Exhibition Dates: A2AC Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2022-2023
Composer and Pianist, Margin Alexander, Performs to Alisa E. Clark's Painting, "Funny Little Birds"
Performance Filmed from the South Oxford Theater in Brooklyn, NY in 2022
The entire Performance features several artist’s works combined with Margin Alexander’s musical compositions. It will be projected outside, at a future date, for the NYC community to experience.
University of North Carolina’s CAB Gallery National Juried Exhibition, 2022
It’s not what I thought it was. As the events of the past year have unfolded, I have had to refine what I believe. Now, I find myself where I don’t belong, and it’s a place that I once thought was home. I am leaving disillusioned.
Disillusioned, 2021
The last year has changed me. Everything I was taught, everything I believed to be true, and everything I once put my hope in no longer adds up.
It’s all one giant contradiction.
Contradiction, 2021
Protest Signs Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: February 24th through April 1st, 2022
Episcopal Church and Visual Arts 2022-2023 Exhibitions
This collage of works for three 2022 ECVA calls includes images for the Sacrament and Image, Everywhere I Look, and Praying the Hours exhibitions. Answering ECVA calls since 2010, I have been offered multiple ways to explore a deeper understanding of “of an ever-evolving, transcending spirituality” through my creative process. With each call, I make art that pushes me. The process always leaves me changed and connects me with art makers who aren’t afraid to explore hard questions and seek for deeper answers.
2023 Expectations and Epiphany Exhibit
2022 Praying the Hours Exhibit
2022 Everywhere I Look Exhibit
2022 Sacrament and Image Exhibit
ISEA Making Our Marks Exhibit, 2022
Getting 25 surrealistic approaches to work together on one canvas was daunting, but I was changed by the experience. Some of the elements got completely buried on my painting surface. Others remained front and center. As I played with the different approaches, I realized that my “usual” would never be the same again. The result feels odd to me. In the spirit of surrealism, this piece is strange. I don’t recognize this new artist. Is that really me?
Is That Really Me?, 2021
2022 Making Our Marks Exhibit with the International Society of Experimental Artists
ECVA Stories from the Road, 2022
I painted this vision from 2014 to sear its resulting epiphany into my heart with my paintbrush, so I will never forget. This, I attained to some degree. That is very good because this is what I have left at my spiritual bottom. This Christmas, and every Christmas to come, this will be the place from which I glean my faith.
From Where I Glean My Faith, 2022
I’m Sorry, 2022
I fell to my knees before Him and said, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
This Exhibit was on Display through ECVA in 2022
Rockland Visual Arts Festival, New York, 2022
130 Talented Artists and Performers
Look beyond the red door and see what you can find. There are little, hidden surprises here: buried in time and memory but, like magic, can be rediscovered on my canvas. I paint to dig it all back up and remember.
Beyond the Red Door, 2021
Live Festival Dates: January 22nd through February 7th, 2022
International Society of Experimental Artists’ International Juried Exhibition:
ISEA Utterly Unfathomable and Powerfully Profound, 2021
My choices are about expressing my inner experience. I could care less about being conventional. I need a color for all my uncertainty and a texture for all my grief. What can I find for my canvas that points me towards a new understanding? I have this jacket that was Mom’s. I slip pieces of it onto my canvas. I draw the front door from my childhood home, and I tuck it away in the shadows of my work. I draw these funny little birds that squawk, tumble, spin, and teeter on the surface of my creation. I see that each bird is me as I tumultuously try to find solid ground. I do this all for hours: choosing colors, shapes, objects, and significance. Words wrap the canvas, but they are garbled and seemingly senseless. I wonder if others will think I have lost my mind? These are odd choices, but I didn’t mean to do something out of the ordinary. I was just lost in the process. I guess you could say this works was one big experiment, but that wasn’t the plan. This is simply what came out of me.
Funny Little Birds, 2019
The Quarantine Artwork of the Artists of ECVA, 2021
Alisa looks back on a lifetime of art making, and she sees creativity’s gift of “flow” during the countless times of sitting and waiting for time to do its work within her. She sees that her creative process was with her whether the hands of time moved too fast or too slow. She also notices that in the most challenging times- the moments when time seemed to not move at all- her creative process was her great companion. When engaged in this process, Alisa has her most profound spiritual experiences. Art is a gift that provides her much connectedness, meaning, and joy.
Tomorrow’s Door, Coming and Going Right Now, Find Joy, Liminal Hope
This Exhibit was on Display through ECVA in 2021
St. Vincent College Verostko Arts Center, 2021
International Juried Exhibition
I am enraptured by the idea that Mary carried God incarnate inside her womb. I like to think that this supplied enough holy power to ignite a spiritual fire inside her. I painted “Madonna on Fire” with the same wonderment I had as a child. She’s not God but she birthed Him. How could she not glow from the inside out? I believe Mary was ablaze and that’s why, and how, I painted her.
Madonna on Fire, 2019
Exhibition Dates: September 6th through October 29th, 2021
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Edward A. Dixon Gallery International Juried Exhibition, 2021
I paint what fascinates me. I explore memories. I find joy in the present moment. I paint it all as I see it. It all makes my “Right Now” a good place to be.
I Find Joy, 2021
International Society of Experimental Artists International Juried Exhibition
Mission Point Resort, Mackinac Island, Michigan, 2021
I just can’t do it anymore. Impulse is telling me that it’s time to investigate, explore, and break the rules. I let loose when I made this painting. It will likely lead to little approval, but at least I am satisfied.
Go Back, Move Forward, 2020
Exhibition Opening: September 3rd, 2021
Alisa's Art Takes a Journey: Small Works National Juried Exhibition!
December 2019 through February 2020
323 Buena Vista, NY is about a door and the people who have entered it. Painting it helps me in my process of accepting—accepting that I won’t be able to use this door for very much longer. I paint to continue turning the knob of this door, and the knobs of the doors beyond this door, so I can see what was once on the other side. I am stuck here, so I paint it over and over and over again, so I can find my way back.
323 Buena Vista, NY, 2019
Portals- Small Works National Juried Exhibition: National Finalist, 2020
Portals- Alex Ferrone Gallery, Cutchogue, NY
2021 Small Works - Big Talent International Juried Exhibition at Las Laguna Gallery, CA
Stuff Long Forgotten, 2021
SHCA 2020 Artist and Artisan Holiday Gallery
Collection of Small Works by Alisa E. Clark,
2020
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Fantastical Flora and Fauna Regional Juried Exhibition, 2020
Space Between, 2020
South Haven Center for the Arts
Exhibition Dates: September 25th through November 7th, 2020
The Color of Music Art Exhibit:
A show of works from across the country that are no greater than 10 inches in any direction.
I Know My Song, 2020
d'Art Center National Juried Exhibition
Everyone, 2020
Norfolk, VA, National Exhibit (Exhibit Closed)
39th Annual Regional Juried Fine Arts Competition
Hello, Hope, 2020
39th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition: Finalist, 2020
Birmingham Bloomfield Arts Center, Birmingham, MI
ECVA Universal Christ Exhibit
Part of His Universe, 2019
This Exhibit was on Display through ECVA in 2020
Reflections Magazine Cover Art, Yale School of Divinity
Yale School of Divinity Shares “Joined Together”
ECVA Exhibition
Episcopal Church of the Visual Arts
Road Home, Acrylic on Canvas
Exhibiting Artist: Alisa E. Clark
Exhibition Archives
Episcopal Church of the Visual Arts Open Studio 2012 Exhibition
Episcopal Church of the Visual Arts Open Studio 2011 Exhibition
Episcopal Church of the Visual Arts Justice and Peace 2010 Exhibition
Michigan Literary Network and Dancing in the Doghouse
Dancing in the Doghouse Readings by Alisa E. Clark
MEA Art Acquisitions Juried Exhibit
2013 (East Lansing, MI)
Small Matters of Great Importance
2000 (Edward Hopper House, Nyack, NY)
Snow Den Gallery
Works on Exhibit, 1998 (West Dover, VT)
Art in Bloom Juried Exhibition
1996 (Hopper House, Nyack, NY)
Hayloft Gallery
Works on Exhibit, 1996 (West Dover, VT)
30 Bond Street
Works on Exhibit, 1994-1995 (New York, NY)
Art on the Common Juried Exhibition
Honorable Mention, 1995 (Highland Mills, NY)