June Clark, Untitled, c. 1983. Courtesy of the Artist and Daniel Faria Gallery.
June Clark, Untitled, 1976. Courtesy of the Artist and Daniel Faria Gallery.
June Clark, Franno, 1982. Courtesy of the Artist and Daniel Faria Gallery.
Life’s Fugue
Untitled, c. 1983
On view March 14 – July 21, 2025
Untitled, 1976
On view July 25 – November 24, 2025
Franno, 1982
On view November 28, 2025 – March 9, 2026
Working across photography, text, collage, sculpture, and installation since the late 1960s, June Clark has poetically woven her personal experience with the larger public concerns of our time. Her practice persistently investigates the ways in which history and memory, both individual and communal, unite to shape identity. The black-and-white images presented on the GreyChurch Billboard in rotation over the course of a year are three of many images Clark made in the 1970s and 1980s in Toronto, her adopted hometown, where she moved after she immigrated to Canada in 1968 from Harlem, New York. Documenting friends as well as those she encountered in the street, parks, barbershops, and diners, Clark’s carefully composed, lucid, and affecting images offer evidence of her witnessing of the world around her. A close-up of her friend Franno’s hands, an image of a bicycle messenger stopped and craning to peek through a hole in construction hoarding, and a depiction of the joy on the faces of those in a choir all represent the quotidian encounters and folks Clark made significant by photographing. In turning her lens on those who surround her, she makes visible and gives importance to her lived experience.
The GreyChurch Billboard is generously supported by Jane Irwin and Ross Hill.
