Ty Nathan Clark

2024 Work

All work created in 2024

Works on Paper.

Selected works on paper from various years.

Of Warm Impermanence. 2023

These works are from the 2 person museum exhibition with artist Vy Ngo in 2023.

Selected Poems from 1995-2020

A selection of work based on poetry written by the artist from 1995-2020. A large group of the work was shown in the artists solo exhibition at Vaughn Gallery in Austin, TX 2022.

Small Works 2024

A collection of studies and small works on canvas under 24"

Lessons in Remembering Part 1 and Part 2. 2018/2019

This body of work is from two separate solo exhibitions. Part one exhibited in Charlotte, NC at SOZO Gallery in 2018 and Part two exhibited in Waco, TX at Cultivate Gallery in 2019.

Memory Lives in the Hand that Writes.

This body of work emerged from the intimate geography of recollection—those formative moments when pencil first met paper in careful cursive loops, when the red margins and blue lines of composition notebooks became sacred boundaries for an emerging voice. What began as childhood handwriting practice in those familiar notebooks evolved into a decades-long conversation with poetry, a practice I've maintained since 1987.

In these works, fiber transcends its traditional supporting role to become language itself. Through deliberate acts of sewing, gluing, and weaving yarns of varying weights and textures, I've created a tactile vocabulary that speaks to both the fragility and persistence of memory. Each piece originates from my own poetry—sometimes fractured into essential phrases, sometimes presented whole with yarn highlighting specific words to reveal secondary poems hidden within the primary text. These highlighted threads create a palimpsest of meaning, where multiple narratives coexist in a single visual field.

For over a year, I've built this collection in deliberate solitude, sharing only glimpses as the work evolved. This privacy felt essential—a return to an era when art could gestate without the constant gaze of screens and feeds, when ideas could mature in shadow before meeting light. The work itself demanded this quietude, this space to breathe and become.

These pieces map the territory between written word and visual form, between the boy practicing letters and the artist still searching for the perfect line. They are love letters to language, monuments to the muscle memory of writing, and testimonies to the enduring power of putting pen to paper.