Multi-disciplinary artist and performer, mother of two wild-spirited young boys, Adjunct Art Professor of many, Clarissa Gregory’s roots began in rural Wisconsin and northern Minnesota, where summers were spent barefoot on the rocky shores of Lake Superior. Today Clarissa resides in Baltimore (Maryland Institute College of Art, MICA, 2009 MFA).
Clarissa’s work exists at the intersection of movement and drawing. How does breath, rhythm, pacing and personal narrative inform a drawing or a dance? How does one capture the sense of life in the inanimate? Attempting to explore these fundamental questions have led Clarissa through a variety of research practices: from hand drawn animation to painting and performance.
The work that has come out of her research has been exhibited and performed widely: As a visual artist and two-time Sondheim Artscape Semi-Finalist, Clarissa’s exhibited at Maryland Film Festival, Silber Art Gallery, Center for the Arts Gallery, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, School33, International Arts Movement in NYC, Rhizome DC.
As a dancer/choreographer Clarissa’s performed at Church on the Square, and NY’s Triskelion Arts Aldous Theatre. Highlights include: 2012’s Pull/Drift – choreographed and directed by Clarissa Gregory; 2019’s High Zero Festival, in which Clarissa improvised with sound artists Le Quan Ninh and Susie Kozawa; and 2023’s Mother Nature, directed by Judy Kurjan-Frank, assistant directed by Clarissa Gregory.
You can view more of her work at http://www.clarissagregory.com.
Clarissa will present At Home Her Name is Mommy at Small Plates Newburgh.
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