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Juror's Statement When an artist puts finishing touches on a painting, it is still only partially completed. The addition of an audience is the catalyst which gives it a new and dynamic life of its own. Occasionally, the artist is both creator and his or her own audience. But many artists have an audience grow to include family and friends, classmates, and sometimes local, regional and national exhibition viewers. For those artists who submitted paintings (more than a thousand), I am honored to have been your audience. Every work offered some special view of who the artist was. In the work of those of you who were selected for the exhibit, something resonated -- perhaps a mood, a strong design, the drawing, the use of color, and most important, that indefinable magic called art. The show is grand and the spirit of all the participants makes it so. People who paint make the world a better place. Thank you, artists, and thank you, audiences. Timothy J. Clark is an internationally recognized artist with studios in California and Maine. Clark is known for his landscapes, portraits, and interior studies. Widely collected throughout North America and Europe, Timothy J. Clark's work has most recently been acquired for permanent collections at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, the El Paso Art Museum in Texas, and the Mission San Juan Capistrano Museum in California. Clark's juried exhibitions include the National Academy shows in New York City. The artist's unique viewpoint and style is recognizable in a variety of subjects including portrait and figure studies, Mediterranean and California gardens, cityscapes, and tropical and woodland scenes. His poetic portrayal of the Sherman Gardens in Corona Del Mar, California and the historic Missions California and their European antecedents in Sp~in have fostered a painting language that captures the positive of West Coast living. A graduate of Chouinard Art Institute and the California Institute of Arts, Clark is on the faculty of Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, has lectured at the Art Students League in New York City, and is Professor of Fine Arts at Coastline College in Southern California. He is also a frequent contributor to art magazines including Watercolor (see his Winslow Homer's Watercolor Techniques, Fall 1998) and (What Collectors Need, April1999). Clark had a solo exhibition, Missions of the El Camino Real & Their Spanish Roots, in the San Juan Capistrano Mission Museum in Southern California in March and April, 1999. In the brochure for this show, Jean Stem, Director of the Irvine Museum and a noted authority on American Art, wrote, "Timothy J. Clark, one of the finest artists of this time, is among my favorite painters. With a fidelity to his own artistic vision, he paints in the rich tradition of Sargent and the American Impressionists. His masterful drawing, heightened sense of color and light, and comprehensive compositions testify to decades of dedication as an artist. His sen.sibilities range from quiet and poetic to vigorous and emotional." Several of Clark's figure pamtmgs are included in a group show, Figures, from March 27 until May 29, 1999 at MD Modem in Houston, Texas. This exhibition also showcases works by Will Barnet, Philip Pearlstein, John Marin, and Edward Hopper.