Untitled

1978-1980

Ed Clark employed a common push broom to manipulate globs of acrylic paint into broad and expressive strokes of color. Through his use of a cleaning tool that references labor and physicality, Clark, like many other postwar Black artists, transformed the possibilities of gestural abstraction. The resulting gradient bands of pigment reveal the movement of the bristles across the paint to create mesmerizing, tactile effects as the colors drip and spill into one another.