Lon Clark, Dean
Lon Clark is a San Francisco artist working in painting and photography. His painting engages the resonance between light and color, drawing and the visual equivalence of directly observed experience. His photography concentrates on the dynamic between subject, the formal language of photography and its narrative character.
Clark was one of the early group of students founding The New York Studio School with Mercedes Matter. He also studied at the Art Students League of New York with Edwin Dickinson, as well as at the Silvermine Guild of Art and Pratt Institute where he studied with Philip Pearlstein and Charles Cajori. He was founding faculty of the Woodstock School of Art. Upon moving to San Francisco he worked closely with the photographer Ruth Bernhard and has taught at colleges in the Bay Area for many years. Most recently he was Director of Graduate Photography at the Academy of Art University. His paintings, photographs, and publication design are represented in various collections and have won many awards. He is cofounder and Dean of the San Francisco Studio School.