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Catharine Clark

Catharine Clark is a San Francisco native deeply connected to the world of art. She is the owner and founding director of Catharine Clark Gallery, a space that celebrates contemporary art of all genres. Her relationship with the artists she works with is a testament to her passion for connection and community. Of the twenty or so artists she works with regularly, more than a third of them have been with the gallery for more than twenty years. This trust allows artists the freedom to experiment with their mediums and techniques. The Schneider Museum of Art’s winter exhibition What’s at Stake was curated by Clark. Featured artists include Al Farrow, Masami Teroaka, and Zeina Barakeh, all of whom have had shows in the Catharine Clark Gallery before. Learn more about Clark and her dedication to artist’s voices with the link below, and see her curation in the Main, Heiter, and Treehaven Galleries of the Schneider Museum of Art.

https://lenscratch.com/2021/06/focus-on-gallerists-catharine-clark-of-catharine-clark-gallery/

Masami Teraoka

Teraoka’s work is colorful, provocative, and steeped in cultural references. His work in What’s at Stake blends Renaissance triptychs (work that spans three panels) with traditional Ukiyo-e inspired images. The blending of east and west is at the heart of Teraoka’s work. Many of his pieces touch on subjects like religion, commercialization, and sexuality. Teraoka has been represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery since 1998, with various solo and group exhibitions shown in the space. Visit the link below to learn more about Teraoka, and see his work in its element in What’s at Stake at the Schneider Museum of Art.

https://cclarkgallery.com/artists/bios/masami-teraoka

The Schneider Museum of Art is located within the ancestral homelands of the Shasta, Takelma, and Latgawa peoples who lived here since time immemorial. These Tribes were displaced during rapid Euro-American colonization, the Gold Rush, and armed conflict between 1851 and 1856. In the 1850s, discovery of gold and settlement brought thousands of Euro-Americans to their lands, leading to warfare, epidemics, starvation, and villages being burned. In 1853 the first of several treaties were signed, confederating these Tribes and others together – who would then be referred to as the Rogue River Tribe. These treaties ceded most of their homelands to the United States, and in return they were guaranteed a permanent homeland reserved for them. At the end of the Rogue River Wars in 1856, these Tribes and many other Tribes from western Oregon were removed to the Siletz Reservation and the Grand Ronde Reservation. Today, the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (https://www.grandronde.org) and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians (http://www.ctsi.nsn.us/) are living descendants of the Takelma, Shasta, and Latgawa peoples of this area. We encourage you to learn about the land you reside on, and to join us in advocating for the inherent sovereignty of Indigenous people.

Catharine Clark

Zeina Barakeh

Masami Teraoka

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