BIO
Marsia Alexander-Clarke was born and raised in Valparaiso, Chile, and came to the United States to attend high school in 1952. She received her B.A. from Park College, Kansas City, Kansas, in 1962, after which she traveled to New York City to further her studies in art. In 1970 she came to California where she further developed her painting.
From 1972 to 1974, Alexander-Clarke attended Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, during which time her high relief paintings on paper gradually became three-dimensional. Marsia received her M.F.A. from CGU in 1974. A year later she was accepted at McDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire, for a two-month scholarship residency. Upon her return to California, Alexander-Clarke continued developing her sculptures, which she exhibited extensively in California and nationally.
In the late 1980’s, she attended video art workshops at the Pasadena Community Access Corporation in Pasadena, California. Since then she has worked with video as her primary medium. In 2001, she received an Individual Artist Grant from the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division for her choral video installation, 6 in 1 to 64 CHOIR, which was exhibited at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, California. In 2018 she became a Fellow in Film-Video from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundations.
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