Bella Arianna Clark (b. 1995, Louisiana) is an oil painter based in Norman, Oklahoma. They graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2017 with a BFA in Film/Animation/Video. Their background in sequential media deeply informs their current painting practice, which examines the visual and emotional logic of car-centric American sprawl, surveillance, and geographic displacement through cartoon logic and whimsical world building.
In their invented worlds, figures emerge from the tamed and controlled greenspaces of parking lots to get their footing on the crosswalk, their life’s work a continual crossing, caught in the permanence of transition without any clear destination. Rather than fleeting events, Clark treats grief and the loss of identity as environmental conditions of suburbia’s architecturally imposed isolation.

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