Past: Red Light Night - “Materiality within the Arts”

"Making Space for Myself"

March 15, 2018 at 7:00 p.m.

Conley Clark is the gallery manager at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri and an alumnus of Southeast Missouri State University, graduating with a B.F.A. in sculpture. Utilizing an interdisciplinary, concept-oriented approach that combines sculpture, performance, photography and digital arts as a means to interweave both personal and political messages, his work is a response to the societal constructs of masculinity and femininity within the LGBT communities. Often employing his own body as the subject, in combination with found materials and objects, Conley attempts to expose the absurdity of binarism, and to investigate the ideas power, gender identity, and sexuality.