My work examines the tension between structural discipline and material fluidity. Hand-shaped wooden frames, rooted in a multigenerational woodworking tradition, establish a controlled architectural foundation. Within and across these structures, hand-dip dyed textiles introduce rhythm, tonal variation, and subtle movement. The work considers how stability and change can coexist within a single form, and how process remains visible in the finished object.
Spencer Clark (b. 1983) is an Atlanta-based artist whose practice combines fine woodworking and hand-dyed textile through minimal wall-based sculpture. Working primarily with hardwoods including walnut, ash, and maple, he constructs precise architectural frameworks that hold dyed cotton in tension, emphasizing proportion, surface, light, and material restraint.
Raised within a multigenerational lineage of woodworkers, Clark approaches fabrication as both formal structure and inherited language. Before turning fully toward studio practice, he spent nearly two decades as a professional photographer, an experience that continues to inform his sensitivity to composition, spatial rhythm, and light.
Clark’s work has been exhibited at the Atlanta Art Fair, the Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Gallery Chimera, the Southeast Fiber Arts Alliance, and the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts, where he was awarded second place in sculpture in 2026. He is represented by Dunwoody Gallery, a 2026 resident at the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, and a 2026–2027 Juried Studio Artist at Spruill Center for the Arts. He lives and works in Atlanta.
