Curating And Coordinating
Founder and Curator MacArthur b arthur Gallery and Project Space
MacArthur b arthur aims to provide a noncommercial community arts space for emerging artists to engage with the residents of North Oakland through social, visual and performative projects.
Curation at MacArthur b arthur
2010: What’s Missing Makes It Better: Negative Space As Subject
2010: Trifecta (A collaborative art walk with WE Artspace and Royal NoneSuch)
2010: Traveling Medicine Show
2010: Top Ten: Ten artists reinterpret the top ten list.
Founder, Million Fishes Art Collective
Kevin Clarke founded the Million Fishes Arts Collective in San Francisco in 2003. Million Fishes was created to give artists an opportunity to live and collaborate with other artists of different trainings, backgrounds and mediums; as well as diverse economic, national, and cultural origins. Since its inception 6 years, Million Fishes has housed over 50 resident artists who have collaborated and expanded their artistic practice with the ability to display and perform their art. While 16 people regularly live at the collective it is also a place for the community to gather, take classes, display art and build installations. Million Fishes is a living, breathing response to market driven art production, and an attempt to break down medium exclusivity for the individual while providing encouragement and support for collaborative projects.
Creator and Curator, ‘The Small Gallery’
Group Shows in ‘The Small Gallery’
2005 CCA Undergraduate Painting dept, 49 Geary sidewalk
Solo Shows in ‘The Small Gallery’
2005: Miriam Blackman, 49 Geary sidewalk
2005: Gaby Wolodarski, 49 Geary sidewalk
2005: Kyle Mock, 49 Geary sidewalk
2005: Michael Shankman, 49 Geary sidewalk
2005: Wei Wang, 49 Geary sidewalk
2006: Ashley Neese, 49 Geary sidewalk
2006: Anne Reagan, 49 Geary sidewalk
2006: Kyle Mock, 49 Geary sidewalk
2007: Kendra Mastain, Red Ink Gallery
2008: Zachary Royer Scholz, Oakland Art Murmur
Collaborative Works in ‘The Small Gallery’
2006: Kevin Clarke and Biba Bell, Biba Bell: Gallery Girl
2006: Kevin Clarke and Katie Kurtz; War: The Ultimate Spectacle
Published Art Reviews
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Colter Jacobsen – “Light Falls” at Jack Hanley Gallery, June 2007.
Stephen Slappe – “Increasing In Significance” at Artists’ Television Access, June 2007.
Ben Shaffer – “With signs following” at Silverman Gallery, June 2007.
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Matteo Bergamesco – “Other Worlds (The Way Vision Becomes Hyper Space)” at MM Galleries, May 2007.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010: The Lab’s Silent Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2007: The Big Tiny, Red Ink Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007: Mapp Retrospective, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2006: Million Fishes Group Show, John Natsoulas Gallery Annex, Davis, CA
2006: ‘The Box Show’ Gallery Route One, Point Reyes, CA
2006: ‘I Follow A terrible Profession’ Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005: ‘Shelter Exhibition’ Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005: ‘Barbie Speed Graffiti’ Kathleen’s Fifth, Shanghai, China
2004: Restored, San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco CA
2004: Restoration, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
2004: “Submerge” Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco CA
2004: “MAPP” Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco CA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010: “Against Parallel”, Ampersand International Arts, San Francicso, CA
2006: ‘Paint Concept and Wood’ BFA Exhibition, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003: “New Work” Urban Knitting Studio, San Francisco, CA
2002: “Figures of Imagination” Café Tartine, San Francisco, CA
2002: “Landscapes” Café Tartine, San Francisco, CA
2001: “Beginnings” international café, San Francisco, CA
Education
Fall 2005 : Graduated With Distinction, BFA, California College of The Arts.
Spring 2001: Coursework in fine art at City College of San Francisco
2000: Multimedia Studies Program, San Francisco State University. Web Design Intensive Certificate received.
Fall 1992 – Spring 1994: Coursework in Social Sciences, Evergreen State College, Oregon
Spring 1992: High School graduate, Colorado Rocky Mountain School
Employment
December 2005 – Present: Independent Furniture designer and fabricator.
August 2003 – Present: Building manager and onsite maintenance person for 18 unit multi use residential and commercial property
March 2002 – February 2003: Creative consultant and partner, Learning Resources, LLC. Instructor for Mt. Diablo Unified School District After School Program. Taught students and faculty how to use multimedia applications and design web pages.
2001 – 2002: Assistant instructor and lead instructor, Expressions Center for New Media. Designed and taught Macromedia Flash to adults.
2000 – 2002: Independent Web Designer
Volunteer Positions
Director Million Fishes Arts Collective Fall, 2003 – Spring 2006.
Summer, 2002. Volunteer art teacher at Creativity Explored, a center for developmentally disabled adults.
