CLARK DERBES presents new work in wood. Derbes uses a multitude of materials and surfaces to create paintings, sculptures, and installations, ranging in size from the miniscule to the monumental. He sources architectural and biological elements to create works of art that are both primitive and futuristic using an approach that matches intuition with strength and deliberation. His art conveys themes that are both whimsical and epic.

Derbes' sculpture uses a vocabulary of forms & shapes adapted from urban architecture translated these into sculptures of carved wood, rendered by chainsaw and finished with a complex patina process which can include ashes, pigment, mud, and other organic materials to address the object's life as an artifact prior to its own history. This method of achieving the beautiful colors in his work also serves to match playfulness with form and flirts with Trompe-l'œil and Op-art .

Clark Derbes was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1978. He earned a BFA at Louisiana State University, and currently lives and works in Vermont, Louisiana, and Texas..