Jason Clark
2014                                                  (PRINTS)

Jason Clark grew up in a rural town at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and has lived and worked many places throughout the United States.
He was raised near the Tule River Indian Reservation in central California, but with his family’s Algonquin traditions and legends from the eastern part of the country. He entered college in Hawaii and studied with a Maori artist schooled in Northwest Coast Native art.  He resides in Missoula, Montana as a printmaker, Adjunct Professor and the 2-D Technician in the School of Art at the University of Montana. From 2006 -2012 he taught and ran the printmaking studio first at the University of Louisiana in Monroe and then at Bemidji State University in Minnesota. His prints have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, The Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, Montana, The Turner Art Center, Centenary College, Shreveport, Louisiana, the William Wipple Gallery, Southwest Minnesota State University, Marshall, Minnesota, the Hillstrom Museum of Art, Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, Applestick Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia, the Warepuke gallery, Bay of Islands, New Zealand, and The 15th International Print Biennial, Varna, Bulgaria. His prints have also been collected in various collections including the Boise Art Museum, the Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas University, West Virginia University, Morgantown, the Junt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, Spokane, The Museum of Arts and Culture, The University of Montana, Missoula, and the Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana. 
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Funding for this project provided by MATRIX press.
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With additional support from The Montana Museum of Art & Culture.

​Education:
2004  M.F.A.,  The University of Montana, MT
2001  Boise State University, ID
2000  B.F.A., The University of Montana, MT
2014 (February)


I would also like to thank the great print assistants Tressa Jones, Beth Huhtala and Eva Stone that worked on this project.  - James Bailey, Professor & Director of MATRIX Press.
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2014 (September)
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Jason did a second project with MATRIX.
In which we printed 160 relief prints.  Prints were designed with continuous patterns, so that when assembled into groups of four they created large icons influences by Tibetan Mandelas.

The series, called “Repeat Offenders” references things happening in world culture that Clark finds tragic and disturbing. From oil spills and fracking to the Tibetan conflict, he said too often, they happen, cause a splash, then are forgotten until they happen again.  “We go ‘Oh, that’s terrible.’ And then the next sentence is ‘What’s for dinner?’” he said.

Link to Missoulian Article on Jason's exhibition.

I would also like to thank the great print assistants Tressa Jones, Beth Huhtala, David Tarullo, Eva Stone, Michael Workman and Stephanie Reiman that worked on this project.  - James Bailey, Professor & Director of MATRIX Press.
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