*PUBLICATIONS*
Lightleaks Magazine
Montecito Journal
Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara Magazine
Santa Barbara News Press
Seasons Magazine
THE Magazine of and for the Arts
Montecito Journal
Santa Barbara Independent
Santa Barbara Magazine
Santa Barbara News Press
Seasons Magazine
THE Magazine of and for the Arts
*GIRLZ OF THE RAINBOW ROOM*
Ladies’ Night
Photographer to Debut Collection of Images Featuring S.B.-based Drag Queens
Thursday, May 28, 2009
By Indy Staff
To celebrate the upcoming Rainbow Room Drag Revue in June, award-winning photographer Patricia Houghton Clarke will display a collection of images depicting a subculture in our area few have had access to: S.B.’s fabulous and extraordinary drag queens. Her photos capture the girls in intimate and public settings, at home and at shows, and most everywhere our town has taken them. Don’t miss the opening reception on June 7 at 5 p.m. at SOhO (1221 State St.).
Photographer to Debut Collection of Images Featuring S.B.-based Drag Queens
Thursday, May 28, 2009
By Indy Staff
To celebrate the upcoming Rainbow Room Drag Revue in June, award-winning photographer Patricia Houghton Clarke will display a collection of images depicting a subculture in our area few have had access to: S.B.’s fabulous and extraordinary drag queens. Her photos capture the girls in intimate and public settings, at home and at shows, and most everywhere our town has taken them. Don’t miss the opening reception on June 7 at 5 p.m. at SOhO (1221 State St.).
*Santa Barbara Drag Artists Step Out of the Shadows*
It’s a typical afternoon on State Street. A mix of locals and visitors amble along the sidewalk gleefully burdened with bags bearing the designer labels of their contents while others inhabit the restaurants and coffee shops that line either side of the downtown thoroughfare. But on this particular day, it’s not the snake handler or a live animal pyramid that are soliciting the public’s attention — it’s three majestic figures waltzing through the throng turning heads. While pretty people might not be that unusual for Santa Barbara, the realization that these lovely ladies were actually men was certainly turning most heads.
FOR MORE GO TO : http://www.independent.com/news/2008/may/28/santa-barbara-drag-artists-step-out-shadows/
By Brett Leigh Dicks
FOR MORE GO TO : http://www.independent.com/news/2008/may/28/santa-barbara-drag-artists-step-out-shadows/
By Brett Leigh Dicks
*SENTIMENTO - IMAGES FROM ITALIA/ IN HOMAGE OF MY GRANDFATHER*
NOVEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 17, 2008
ART RESOURCES GALLERY
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
Patricia Clarke is returning to the photographic scene in Santa Barbara after her successful "Correspondences" show in the fall of 2007 with a new collection of images from Italy shot between 2005 - 2007. Again using her Holga camera to create strong and visually complex single, double and triple images, her photographs tell heartfelt stories of her beloved Italia." THE Magazine, Los Angeles
ART RESOURCES GALLERY
SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA
Patricia Clarke is returning to the photographic scene in Santa Barbara after her successful "Correspondences" show in the fall of 2007 with a new collection of images from Italy shot between 2005 - 2007. Again using her Holga camera to create strong and visually complex single, double and triple images, her photographs tell heartfelt stories of her beloved Italia." THE Magazine, Los Angeles
*Art Review: All work, some play - Local photographers capture a slice of work life in exhibit*
By Josef Woodard, Santa Barbara News Press
April 11, 2008
Exhibitions landing at the Channing Peake Gallery, nestled in the ground floor of the County Administration Building downtown, have often tended to be more socially-charged than other quarters of the art-for-art's-sake scene in town. That tendency reaches a new high with a new show called "The Essential Worker," a model show in terms of satisfying the interests of art, reportage and social commentary from the streets where we live....
For Patricia Clarke, the construction job site offers a fascinating source of personalities and faces, sometimes obscured by masks, but generally posed and aware of the camera's probing eye..."
April 11, 2008
Exhibitions landing at the Channing Peake Gallery, nestled in the ground floor of the County Administration Building downtown, have often tended to be more socially-charged than other quarters of the art-for-art's-sake scene in town. That tendency reaches a new high with a new show called "The Essential Worker," a model show in terms of satisfying the interests of art, reportage and social commentary from the streets where we live....
For Patricia Clarke, the construction job site offers a fascinating source of personalities and faces, sometimes obscured by masks, but generally posed and aware of the camera's probing eye..."
The Essential Worker - Photographic Exhibition Celebrates Santa Barbara's Workforce
Santa Barbara Independent, March 6, 2008 - Darian Bleecher
... In The Essential Worker, 10 regional photographers capture images of laborers in the service industry and trades, those whose tasks include keeping us housed, safe, and fed....Patricia Clarke, whose background in construction and design inspired her coverage of construction workers, said "The reaction I saw on their faces was - 'Wow - you noticed me?' Construction workers...are so taken for granted, though they're creating where we live and work....."
... In The Essential Worker, 10 regional photographers capture images of laborers in the service industry and trades, those whose tasks include keeping us housed, safe, and fed....Patricia Clarke, whose background in construction and design inspired her coverage of construction workers, said "The reaction I saw on their faces was - 'Wow - you noticed me?' Construction workers...are so taken for granted, though they're creating where we live and work....."
CORRESPONDENCES: Review by Joseph Woodard, Scene Magazine/ Santa Barbara News Press
ARTS : Worldly Words, poetic images : Photographer Patricia Clarke's images of Laos, Thailand are explored by poet Ellen Chavez Kelley in Correspondences
By Josef Woodard, NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT
November 23, 2007 11:34 AM
Correspondences, photographs by Patricia Clarke and poems by Ellen Chavez Kelley
For the full review please go to :
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=SCENE&ID=565126776796348541
By Josef Woodard, NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT
November 23, 2007 11:34 AM
Correspondences, photographs by Patricia Clarke and poems by Ellen Chavez Kelley
For the full review please go to :
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=SCENE&ID=565126776796348541
"THE ESSENTIAL WORKER"
CHANNING PEAKE GALLERY
SANTA BARBARA, CA
MARCH - NOVEMBER, 2008
The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission selected ten professional photographers for the exhibition of black and white and color photography curated by Brett-Leigh Dicks.
The exhibition, "The Essential Worker", is intended to focus on and highlight "service industry" workers. Patricia Clarke will document construction workers around Santa Barbara County, focusing on the Granada Theater Restoration project.
SANTA BARBARA, CA
MARCH - NOVEMBER, 2008
The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission selected ten professional photographers for the exhibition of black and white and color photography curated by Brett-Leigh Dicks.
The exhibition, "The Essential Worker", is intended to focus on and highlight "service industry" workers. Patricia Clarke will document construction workers around Santa Barbara County, focusing on the Granada Theater Restoration project.
CORRESPONDENCES - A PHOTOGRAPHY/POETRY COLLABORATION
Casa Magazine
November 2, 2007
I. MurphyLewis, Ph.D.
"Two of Santa Barbara's own artists: photographer, Patricia Clarke and poet, Ellen Chavez Kelley are inspired by one another, swept into the swirl of corresponding imagery. As Clarke traipses through Laos and Thailand, Holga camera in hand capturing the chaotic collision of ancient civilizations and post-modern globalization, Kelley receives the lilting images and transforms them into poetic words. Through their intimate exchange, we find ourselves there, standing on the edge of the Mekong, hand in hand with Clarke and Kelley...both poet and photographer capture this world where old collides, then merges with new. Collaboratively, their images restore hope in humanity, its richness, its resiliency. Author Paul Hawken affirms their view: "In the chaos engulfing the world, a hopeful future resides because the past is disintegrating before us......"
November 2, 2007
I. MurphyLewis, Ph.D.
"Two of Santa Barbara's own artists: photographer, Patricia Clarke and poet, Ellen Chavez Kelley are inspired by one another, swept into the swirl of corresponding imagery. As Clarke traipses through Laos and Thailand, Holga camera in hand capturing the chaotic collision of ancient civilizations and post-modern globalization, Kelley receives the lilting images and transforms them into poetic words. Through their intimate exchange, we find ourselves there, standing on the edge of the Mekong, hand in hand with Clarke and Kelley...both poet and photographer capture this world where old collides, then merges with new. Collaboratively, their images restore hope in humanity, its richness, its resiliency. Author Paul Hawken affirms their view: "In the chaos engulfing the world, a hopeful future resides because the past is disintegrating before us......"
A BALANCE OF MEDIUMS - SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
CORRESPONDENCES
November 15, 2007
By Stephen T. Vessels
"When Patricia Clarke volunteered, in 1979, to teach English to Hmong immigrants living in Isla Vista, she never envisioned that, 28 years later, she would photograph an impoverished Hmong village in the remote hinterlands of Laos. The photographs she took, now on show at the Architectural Foundation Gallery, form one half of an unusual and powerful artistic collaboration between Clarke and her close friend, poet Ellen Kelley.
... An exhibit of 17 photographs Clarke took in Southeast Asia coupled with poems Kelley wrote in response to them...reverberate with personal trials and the pains of a troubled world, but they are also infused with an attitude of gentle acceptance...."
To read review on Independent website click here.
November 15, 2007
By Stephen T. Vessels
"When Patricia Clarke volunteered, in 1979, to teach English to Hmong immigrants living in Isla Vista, she never envisioned that, 28 years later, she would photograph an impoverished Hmong village in the remote hinterlands of Laos. The photographs she took, now on show at the Architectural Foundation Gallery, form one half of an unusual and powerful artistic collaboration between Clarke and her close friend, poet Ellen Kelley.
... An exhibit of 17 photographs Clarke took in Southeast Asia coupled with poems Kelley wrote in response to them...reverberate with personal trials and the pains of a troubled world, but they are also infused with an attitude of gentle acceptance...."
To read review on Independent website click here.
POET ELLEN CHAVEZ KELLEY AND PHOTOGRAPHER PATRICIA CLARKE COLLABORATE
"Artistic Correspondents"
Poetry Review - SB Independent - October 11, 2008
By Perie Longo
"Thirty years ago, two women met in a childcare co-op, and struck up a friendship....
Their work together has spanned space as well as time; while Patricia Clarke traveled extensively to photograph images in Europe, Africa, Israel, South America, and Asia, Ellen Chavez Kelley remained in Southern California...
... Something in Clarke’s “surreal, dreamlike images” called to Kelley. Then, in 2006, Clarke went to Thailand and Laos. When she returned, Kelley found the new direction for her poetry she had been looking for...
In entering someone else’s world, Kelley said, “We can become more awake, both individually and collectively, to those places within ourselves we all come from. My poems were like a doorway to hope..." for more, go to : http://independent.com/news/2007/oct/11/poet-ellen-chavez-kelley-and-photographer-patricia/
Poetry Review - SB Independent - October 11, 2008
By Perie Longo
"Thirty years ago, two women met in a childcare co-op, and struck up a friendship....
Their work together has spanned space as well as time; while Patricia Clarke traveled extensively to photograph images in Europe, Africa, Israel, South America, and Asia, Ellen Chavez Kelley remained in Southern California...
... Something in Clarke’s “surreal, dreamlike images” called to Kelley. Then, in 2006, Clarke went to Thailand and Laos. When she returned, Kelley found the new direction for her poetry she had been looking for...
In entering someone else’s world, Kelley said, “We can become more awake, both individually and collectively, to those places within ourselves we all come from. My poems were like a doorway to hope..." for more, go to : http://independent.com/news/2007/oct/11/poet-ellen-chavez-kelley-and-photographer-patricia/
