Kevin Clarke, Genetic Reveries

February 25th - March 22nd, 2003

Genetic Reveries assembles New York based photographer Kevin Clarke's most recent works on portraiture and genetics. By interweaving genetic sequences with interpretive portraits, the exhibited photographs reference individuals in the artist's life while exploring the structures of personal relationships. These structures are both biologically inscribed and socially crafted, relating to heredity and sexuality as well as the connections articulated among people who share space and history. In addition to considering the interface of art and science, the artist explores the nexus between individuals, their environments, and lived human experience.

Kevin Clarke's work is currently on view in How Human? Life in the Post-Genome Era at the International Center of Photography, New York, through June 8; From Code to Commodity, at the NY Academy of Science, through April 11, and in Four Plus: Writing DNA at the Wellcome Trust, London, until July. From June 28 to September 7, 2003, Kevin Clarke, Portraits of the Future—an overview of the artist's work since 1989—will be exhibited at The Hecksher Museum of Art in Huntington, Long Island (paralleling a series of events hosted by the nearby Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Watson and Crick's discovery of the double helix shape of DNA.)

Kevin Clarke's recent exhibitions in Europe include The Invisible Body, Museum Wiesbaden; Kevin Clarke, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart; American Photography, Museum for Concrete Art, Ingolstadt; Blood: Power, Politics, and Pathology, Schirn Kunsthalle and Museum for Applied Art, Frankfurt; Under the Skin—Biological Transformations in Contemporary Art, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg; Gene Worlds, Portrait of John Cage, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, and The Promise of Photography, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Kevin Clarke, Galeria de Arte Pillar Parra, Photo Espagne'02, and ARCO Madrid. In the U.S., Clarke recently exhibited Dust to DNA, Kevin Clarke and Mikey Flowers 9/11 at the International Center of Photography, New York, and Paradise Now, Exit Art, N.Y. and the Tang Art Museum, Saratoga, N.Y.