SECRET SOLITUDES – PAINTINGS BY SALLY CLARK
Opening Thursday October 16, 2025 7-9pm
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Meeting the Artist: Tuesday October 21, 2025 6-8pm
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Exhibition: October 16 – November 6, 2025
Mon-Fri 10am-5pm or by appointment here.
Lipont Gallery is delighted to present “SECRET SOLITUDES,” a new exhibition featuring paintings by established Vancouver-based artist, Sally Clark. The exhibition opens on October 16th, 2025, with a public reception from 7 PM to 9 PM.
The exhibition “SECRET SOLITUDES” presents a captivating body of work by artist, Sally Clark, offering an intimate yet expansive exploration of the contemporary human condition, filtered through the lens of ancient myth, art historical homage and the raw, untamed landscape of British Columbia and the Canadian North. Clark, an accomplished painter, playwright, and filmmaker brings a multi-layered, narrative sensibility to her canvases, developing her rich, vibrant colours through the meticulous, layered techniques of the Old Masters, where light is formed optically by passing through underpainting and overpainting.
A cosmic drama unfolds in her new paintings ‘Miss Universe and the Big Bang’ and ‘Miss Universe Chooses’ where a central female figure is depicted not as a passive ideal, but as an active creator of her own reality and solar system. This figure can be seen as a powerful contemporary analogue to mythic creation deities; highlighting a desire for agency amid universal chaos. The theme of forging one’s own path continues in ‘Les Demoiselles du Canada,’ which nods to Picasso’s revolutionary figures. Here, three women are locked in an “ancient dance,” an eternal inscription, while a fourth chooses to “unhook herself” to seek a “blank canvas,” powerfully illustrating the tension between tradition, fate, and radical self-determination.
Clark’s figurative paintings, born from the “present moment” of life drawing, transcend their immediate source material to become surreal dreamscapes. The artist’s aim is to capture moments of sudden, disruptive societal and personal shift—an “eternal present” where we feel disassociated from our past.
The exhibition title, “SECRET SOLITUDES,” finds its emotional anchor in the numerous works dedicated to the wilderness. Clark’s native British Columbia landscape is not merely a setting but a repository of quiet contemplation and mysterious energy. The works ‘Symphony of Trees,’ ‘Jewel in the Forest,’ and ‘The Silent Cacophony of the Forest’ celebrate the intricate patterns and profound, almost deafening, silence found in nature—the artist’s personal source of beauty and meditation.
Through “SECRET SOLITUDES,” Sally Clark invites the viewer into a compelling dialogue between past and present, myth and modernity, and the personal quest for presence within an ever-shifting reality. Her masterful technique and narrative depth create an unforgettable experience of contemporary figurative painting.
Exhibition Dates: October 16 – November 6, 2025
Hours: Monday – Friday, 10 AM – 5 PM, or by appointment. Visit here to book.
Address: Lipont Place, Room 218 (no elevator), 4211 No. 3 Road, Richmond, BC, V6X 2C3
Admission: Free
Parking: Free on the south side of the building only.
Transit: Aberdeen Station
Contact: www.lipontgallery.ca, 604-285-9975
秘密的孤独——莎莉·克拉克绘画展
开幕：2025年10月16日星期四晚7:00 – 9:00时
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艺术家见面会：2025年10月21日星期二晚6:00 – 8:00时
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展览日期：2025年10月16日至11月6日
展览时间：周一至五10:00 – 5:00免费开放，或点此预约。
地址：Lipont Place, Rm218 (无电梯), 4211 No. 3 Road Richmond BC, 604-285-9975
温哥华力邦美术馆荣幸推出展览【秘密的孤独】，展出温哥华知名艺术家莎莉·克拉克的油画作品。展览将于2025年10月16日开幕，公众接待时间为晚上7点至9点。
【秘密的孤独】呈现艺术家莎莉·克拉克一系列引人入胜的作品，透过古代神话、艺术史以及加拿大卑诗省和加拿大北部风景，对当代人类境况进行了深入而广阔的探索。克拉克是一位技艺精湛的画家、剧作家和电影制作人，她为画作注入了多层次的叙事感，运用古典大师细致的层次技巧，将光线通过底色和覆盖色的叠加，形成光学效果，从而展现出丰富鲜艳的色彩。
在她的新作【环球小姐与宇宙大爆炸】和【环球小姐的选择】中，一场宇宙戏剧展开。作品中，中心女性形象没有被描绘成一个被动的个体，而是她自己的现实和太阳系的积极创造者。这个形象可以被看作是神话中创世神灵的当代对应物，凸显了在宇宙混沌中寻求自主的渴望。“开辟自身路径”的主题在【加拿大少女】中延续，这幅作品致敬了毕加索笔下的人物。作品中，三位女性被困于一场“古老的舞蹈”中，如同永恒的铭文；而第四位女性则选择“解脱”，去寻找一块“空白的画布”，有力地展现了传统、命运与彻底的自我决定之间的张力。
克拉克的具象绘画源于写生的“当下”，超越了其直接的素材，成为超现实的梦境。艺术家旨在捕捉突如其来、颠覆性的社会和个人转变——一个让我们感到与过去脱节的“永恒的当下”。
展览标题“秘密的孤独”在其众多以荒野为主题的作品中找到了情感的锚点。克拉克的家乡加拿大卑诗省的风景不仅仅是一个场景，更是静谧沉思和神秘能量的宝库。作品【树木交响曲】、【森林中的珍宝】和【森林的无声喧嚣】颂扬了自然中错综复杂的图案和深邃、近乎震耳欲聋的寂静——艺术家个人的美与冥想之源。
通过【秘密的孤独】展览，莎莉·克拉克邀请观众参与一场引人入胜的对话，探讨过去与现在、神话与现代，以及在不断变化的现实中寻求存在感的个人探索。她精湛的技艺和深刻的叙事深度，为当代具象绘画带来令人难忘的体验。
开幕活动将于10月 16日星期四晚7:00时至 9:00 时举行。10月21日星期二晚6:00 – 8:00时, 观众将有机会在艺术家见面会上与莎莉·克拉克见面，听她讲述画布背后的故事。
展览日期：2025年10月16日至11月6日
时间：周一至周五，上午10点至下午5点，或点此预约。
地址：Lipont Place 218室 (无电梯)，4211 No. 3 Road, Richmond, BC, V6X 2C3
门票：免费
停车：仅限楼南免费停车。
交通：Aberdeen天车站
联系方式：www.lipontgallery.ca 604-285-9975
Sally Clark – Artist Biography
Born in Vancouver Canada, Sally Clark has been painting in oils since she was twelve. She completed her B.F.A. degree at York University in Toronto. She lived in Toronto for thirty years and her paintings were exhibited in several galleries during that time. As an accomplished and prolific artist with an extensive exhibition history, she has had solo exhibitions sponsored by the Granville Island Cultural Society, the Vancouver East Cultural Centre and North Vancouver Arts Council. An artist of multiple talents, she is also a celebrated playwright and filmmaker, her plays having received a Governor General’s Award nomination. Her novel, “Waiting for the Revolution” was published by Cormorant Books in 2010. Her paintings have been in many FCA group shows, receiving four Honourable Mentions. She received the 2nd Prize at the FCA POTE (Painting on the Edge) Exhibition in 2016. Sally Clark was one of the Finalists for the Kingston Portrait Prize in 2017.
萨利·克拉克 – 艺术家简介
莎莉·克拉克出生于加拿大温哥华，自十二岁起开始创作油画。她在多伦多约克大学获得艺术学士学位。她在多伦多生活了三十年，其间她的画作在多家画廊展出。她是一位成就卓著、作品丰硕的艺术家，拥有丰富的展览经验，曾举办过由温哥华格兰威尔岛文化协会、温哥华东文化中心和北温哥华艺术委员会赞助的个人画展。她是一位多才多艺的艺术家，同时也是一位著名的剧作家和电影制片人，她的戏剧作品曾获得总督奖提名。她的小说《等待革命》于2010年由Cormorant Books出版。她的画作曾多次参加FCA联展，并获得四次荣誉奖。她在2016年FCA POTE（边缘绘画）展览中荣获二等奖。莎莉·克拉克是2017年金斯顿肖像奖的决赛入围者之一。
Sally Clark – Artist Statement on New Works 2025
One of things I love about Life Drawing is that it puts me in the present moment. Online life wants me to be in someone else’s moment but when I sit down and draw a human being, I am living in present time. My time. I take my day’s haul of drawings and hang them on the wall and live with them for a while. Some of the models take poses that are so evocative, they inspire me to dream into them and invent environments for the pose. My new figurative paintings are the result of these dreams. – Sally Clark 2025
萨利·克拉克 – 关于 2025 新作
我喜欢人体素描的一点是它让我活在当下。网络生活让我活在别人的当下，但当我坐下来画一个人时，我活在当下，活在我自己的时间里。我把一天画下来的作品挂在墙上，和它们一起生活了一段时间。有些模特的姿势非常动人，它们激发我去想象，并为这些姿势创造环境。我的新具象绘画就是这些梦想的结晶。
PLAY! A Retro-Speculative – Paintings by Sally Clark
Opening July 23rd, 2024 7-9pm
Exhibition: July 23 – August 31, 2024
Lipont Gallery is honoured to present PLAY! A Retro-Speculative, an exhibition of oil paintings by Vancouver-based artist Sally Clark.
This year, we were pleased to discover a group of oil paintings created by Clark in the late 1970s. These works are astonishing. There’s a joy in these paintings that elicit a yearning in people and inspire curiosity about that era. As stated in Wong Kar-wai’s film In the Mood for Love: “That era has passed, and everything belonging to that era no longer exists.” Every era has its own qualities that define it. With her unique painting style, Sally Clark provides us with an amazing perspective on those times.
Unlike Clark’s recent series of paintings, ‘The Divine Insider,’ which focuses close-up on the human face, treating it as a landscape, in this series of works, ‘PLAY!,’ Clark investigates the zeitgeist of the era by presenting full-length portraits. Her subjects are juxtaposed with vivid colours and geometric shapes, emblematic of the 1970s and which, in a curious way, reflect and embody the sitters. Clark says: “I embarked on this series because I was inspired by my love of Manet’s early paintings and the way he challenged social stereotypes. Making a social statement was my plan.”
In 1970s, the art world had seen a burgeoning of ideas in art movements, including land art, performance art, feminist art, etc. Marginalized people continued their fight for justice and equality. And Clark’s works capture the spirit of her subjects and convey the beauty, vulnerability, glamour and joy of that time. Most of the paintings in the exhibition were created in Toronto in the late 1970s. The characters in the paintings are either personal friends, actors in costumes, or people exploring a fantasy. The exaggerated, patterned backgrounds, old furniture, the poses of the protagonists and the props they brought are like scenarios created in a film, making the atmosphere of each painting humorous, beckoning, relaxed, warm, or mysterious… urging us to enter the world of the person and engage in the stories that lie within.
The exhibition also includes a rare self-portrait of Clark that evokes a science fiction movie. It which allows us to have a deeper understanding of Clark, who is both a painter and an award-winning playwright. It is not difficult to see that Clark “performed” a series of “dramas” with her oil paintings in the 1970s. Half a century later, everyone’s life is still being played out like a drama. We ourselves are the characters in the drama, and it’s time for a retro speculative!
【戏!复古思辨】- 莎利·克拉克油画展
开幕：2024年7月23日星期二7-9pm
展览：2024年7月23日至8月31日
Lipont画廊很荣幸呈现【戏!复古思辨】展览，本次展览将展出温哥华艺术家莎利·克拉克 (Sally Clark) 的22幅油画作品。
今年，我们喜出望外地发现了克拉克在二十世纪70年代末创作的一组油画。这些作品令人惊叹并使我们对那个时代产生好奇和向往。正如王家卫电影【花样年华】中所说：“那个时代已经过去，属于那个时代的一切都不复存在了”。每个时代都有属于自己的特质。莎利·克拉克以其独特的绘画风格带领着我们一窥二十世纪70年代。
与克拉克的近期系列画作【神圣内幕】不同，她的这一系列作品【戏！】，不以特写的方式聚焦于人脸，将其视为风景，而是通过呈现全身肖像来探讨时代精神。她的人物与背景中生动的色彩和几何形状交相呼应，回应着70 年代，并反映和体现了画中的人物们。克拉克说：“我开始创作这个系列是源于我对马奈早期绘画的热爱，并受到他挑战社会刻板印象的方式的启发。发表社会声明是我的初衷。”
二十世纪70年代，各种艺术运动思潮不断涌现，包括大地艺术、行为艺术、女性主义艺术等。边缘人群继续为正义和平等而奋斗。克拉克的作品完美捕捉了她的主体精神，传达了那个时代的美丽、脆弱、魅力和欢乐。展览中的大部分画作都创作于70年代末的多伦多。画中的人物或者是画家的私人朋友，或者是穿着戏服的演员，或者是探索幻想的人。夸张的图案背景、古老的家具、主角的姿态以及他们带来的道具，就像电影场景一样，让每件作品的气氛或幽默、或诱人、或轻松、或温馨、或神秘…引领着我们走进主角的世界并参与其中的故事。
展览还将展出一幅罕见的克拉克自画像，仿佛科幻电影场景一般。让我们对她既是画家又是获奖剧作家的身份有了更深入的了解。不难看出，克拉克在70年代用她的油画“上演”了一系列“戏剧”。半个世纪过去了，每个人的生活依然如戏剧般上演。我们自己就是剧中人物，是时候来一场复古思辨了！
Sally Clark – Artist Statement
I believe that painting is about communicating to an unknown observer the feeling of stillness.
‘This is how it feels to be here in this moment of time.’
I paint to get at the essence of my subject, to understand its mystery. I paint in layers, through under-painting and over-painting so that the colour is formed optically, by the light passing through the layers.
I want to create the feeling one has, when light suddenly hits a surface and there is a moment of illumination. I wish to engage the viewer in this sense of mystery, these apparitions of light.
萨利·克拉克 – 艺术家陈述
我相信绘画的意义在于向未知的观者传达一种静谧的感受。
“这就是此刻身临其境的感觉。”
我绘画是为了探寻主题的精髓，理解它的奥秘。我层层叠加，通过底色和覆盖色的叠加，让光线在层层叠加中形成光学色彩。
我希望营造出一种感觉，当光线突然照射到表面，瞬间便会豁然开朗。我希望让观者沉浸在这种神秘感之中，沉浸在这些光的幻影之中。
