Joshua R. Clark received his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He lives and works in Las Cruces New Mexico where he is the Assistant Professor of Ceramic Art at New Mexico State University. Clark has exhibited nationally and internationally including exhibitions at the Yingge Ceramic Art Museum in Taiwan, The CICA Museum in South Korea, The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza Italy, The Museum of Ceramics in Fiorano Italy, The Museum of International Design and Ceramics in Laveno Mombello Italy, The Arizona State Museum of Art in Tempe Arizona, and The Zanesville Museum of Art in Zanesville Ohio. Clark’s research focuses on the generation of meaning through object making. Clark’s artworks are concerned with concepts of beauty, the collective unconscious, and the associative potentials of materials. As an antidote to “the will to power” Clark uses play in his studio to create artworks which do not seek any preconceived end, but rather follow a revelatory process. By creating ceramic objects through a wide range of technical expertise, Clark creates artworks that can appear hand-crafted, commercially produced, representational, abstract, controlled, and chaotic.