Sylvia Lark (1947 – December 27, 1990) was an Seneca people visual artist,
Early life and education
Sylvia Lark was born in 1947 in Buffalo, New York.
She went to high school at
Nardin Academy in Buffalo.
Lark attended school at the University of Siena; University at Buffalo (formally State University of New York, Buffalo) where she received her B.A. degree in 1969;
Mills College; and the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she received her M.A. degree in 1970 and M.F.A. degree in 1972.
Career
Starting in 1972, Lark taught art at California State University, Sacramento where she remained until 1976.
In 1977, she received a Fulbright-Hays Program grant and traveled and study in Korea and Japan.
Lark taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1977 until 1990.
Her early work used symbols and patterns, and there was a shift in her later career with more abstraction and overlapping colors with delicate textured surfaces.
In 1992, she was the second inductee into Nardin Academy's Alumnae Hall of Fame.
Death and legacy
Lark died on cancer at the age of 43 in Berkeley on December 27, 1990.
Her works are in the museum collections at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,
Exhibitions
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1975 – Drawings and Prints by Howard Hack, Sylvia Lark, and Leonard Sussman, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
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1977 – Lark–Palmer Prints and Sculptures, included Sylvia Lark and Jon Palmer, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
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1977 – Look, Touch, Rub, Pull, Smell, and Hear, included Carlos Villa, Chisato Nishioka Watanabe, Phil Weidman, , Phil Hitchcock, Jock Reynold, Laureen Landau, Sylvia Lark, William Maxwell, Bruce Guttin, Paul DeMarinis, and Jim Pomeroy, Artspace, Sacramento, California
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1980 – Contemporary Trends in Presentation Drawings, curated by Roberta Loach, Linda Langston; including J.J. Aasen, Walter Askin, Gary Brown, Eleanor Dickinson, Bob Anderson, Harry Lynn Krizan, Judith Linhares, Roy DeForest, Robert Freimark, Sylvia Lark, Roberta Loach, Norman Lundin, Shane Weare, Vince Perez, Mary Snowden, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
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1980 – Bhirasri Institute of Modern Art, Bangkok, Thailand
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1983 – Galerie Akmak, Berlin, Germany
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1984 – (solo exhibition), Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, California
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1985 – Galerie Hartje, Frankfurt, Germany
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1986 – The 54th Hanga Annual, Japan-California Print Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
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1987 – The Ethnic Idea, curated by Andrée Maréchal-Workman, including Lauren Adams, Robert Colescott, Dewey Crumpler, Mildred Howard, Oliver Lee Jackson, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Joe Sam, Elisabeth Zeilon, Tom Holland, Celeste Conner, Jean LaMarr, Sylvia Lark, Leta Ramos, Judy Foosaner, Joseph Goldyne, Belinda Chlouber, Carlos Villa, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
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1991 – North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Fork, North Dakota
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2002 – Art/Women/California, Parallels and Intersections: 1950–2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
See also
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List of Native American artists
Further reading
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includes recipes by Lark.
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