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| EN FOCO | Photographers | |
 Cybèle Clark-Mendes, Amalgamation, Amalgamated Signifiers series, 1999 Gelatin silver print.  Cybèle Clark-Mendes, Mulberry, Amalgamated Signifiers series, 1999 Gelatin silver print.  Cybèle Clark-Mendes, Irony of Sorts, Constructed Identities series, 2005. Gelatin silver print. |
Cybèle Clark-Mendes Born: 1975 Los Angeles, CA Resides: Newark, DE Heritage: African-American/ Anglo-American Selected Exhibitions: George Walters Gallery at Elmira College, Elmira, NY 2005, 2007 John Hartell Gallery at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2005 Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Tjaden Experimental Studio at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 2004 FLATFILE Galleries, Chicago, IL 2004 Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL 2004 The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA 2004 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 University of Toledo Center of the Visual Arts, Toledo, OH 2004 Gallery 402, New York, NY 2003 Images Cinema, Williamstown, MA 2003 Art in General, New York, NY 2003 Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA 2002 Galerie se Arte Fotographico Meliton Rodriguez Instituto de Artes de Medeillin, Medellin, Colombia 2002 L.A. Art Association, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Williamson Gallery at Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA 2002 Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2002 Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba 2002 Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI 2002 Exit Art, New York, NY 2002 Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI 2002 The Workspace Gallery at University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 2002 Space Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI 2001 C-Rock, Miami, FL 2001 Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL 2001 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 2000 Education: MFA, Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, 2000 BFA, Cornell University, 1997 Awards: En Foco's New Works Photography Awards #12, Honorable Mention, 2008-2009 Strategic Opportunity Stipend, NYFA, 2005 Project Grant, Cornell University of the Arts, 2005 Dean's Fund, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cornell University, 2005 Pamela Joseph Fellowship, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 2005 Honorable Mention, 78th Annual International Competition: Photography, The Print Center, 2004 Faculty Development Grant, Department of Art, Western Michigan University, 2001, 2003 Support for the Preparation and Publication of Papers and Exhibitions of Creative Works Fund, Western Michigan University, 2002 Faculty Research Travel Fund, Western Michigan University, 2002 Faculty Laptop Initiative, Western Michigan University, 2002 Dean | Provost Fund, Western Michigan University, 2002 Research Development Award, Western Michigan University, 2001 Residencies: Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT 2006 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE 2006 Weir Farm Art Center, Wilton, CT 2006 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA 2005, 2006 Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO 2006 Publications: Nueva Luz photographic journal, Volume 10#1 (En Foco: Bronx, 2004) Byrd, Cathy. " Is there a 'post-black' art? Investigating the legacy of the 'Freestyle' show."Art Papers Magazine 26 no.6, November/December, p.37., 2002 Talley, Dan R. Color, Culture, Complexity, Catalogue. p.12, 2002 Green, Roger. "A Quarter Century: UICA celebrates 25th anniversary." The Grand Rapids Press, February 24, p.F4, 2002 Sult, Amy. "Exhibit Explores Link Between Language and Racism." Kalamazoo Gazette, October 28, p.C5, 2001 Artist's Statement: My interests as an artist have centered on issues of identity. I have explored my bi-racial background, as well as the meaning within the dynamics of my family history. The older I’ve gotten and the more life I’ve lived, the more that my interest in personal identity has expanded to also include womanhood. As I’ve explored many factors or characteristics in what it means to be a woman, including archaic or more traditional roles of woman, these images seem to recall a past that I am less familiar with. Photography is a vehicle for personal expression, that I have utilized in an effort to better understand myself, as well as figure out my role in this world. In the past, my work came from a place of self-interest, as it served me first. Now that I have fewer questions about who I am or what that voice is, my work comes from me instead of being about me. Overtime, I’ve realized that change can occur when one projects what they feel and see. This way, the work becomes more influential and accessible to a wider audience. In my current approach, I feel that I can be less literal in what to do, and more subtle and perhaps suggestive. Where I am now, although my exploration of racial identity and womanhood will and must continue, there is a desire and need to explore the world from the perspective in which I now find myself. A woman without anger and frustration, filled with happiness. I now possess the very thing I’ve desired for so long. There’s a foreshadowing effect in my previous work of event to come that I now find myself experiencing. For the first time, these things are within my reach. My dreams and reality have coalesced to form a life that I could have only imagined. My mindset has shifted to anything is possible. With so much psychic space, clarity, and happiness, there are infinite possibilities to expand upon my work. Website: |
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