Gallery Information
Clark Gallery exhibits contemporary art in all media by emerging, mid-career and established artists from the Northeast and nationally. The gallery's exhibition program reflects a broad range of twentieth century ideas appealing to collectors and institutions with diverse interests.
Clark Gallery is a full service contemporary art consulting company finding artwork for new and established collectors, museums, public and private corporations, museums, architecture firms, real estate agents, developers, non-profit art organizations, restaurants, interior decorators, art auctions and other art related organizations. To see additional images of artwork, or for information about purchasing artwork exhibited on this site contact Dana Salvo, Dawn Southworth or Kristen Zeiser.
Established in 1976, Clark Gallery is one of New England's leading art galleries and a member of the Boston Art Dealers Association. Located just outside Boston in Lincoln, MA, an area known for its rich cultural offerings, Clark Gallery is minutes from the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park and the Walter Gropius House in Lincoln, as well as the Rose Art Museum in neighboring Waltham.
The Directors
Dawn Southworth and Dana Salvo have a long history of a shared life in the arts. They have been married for twenty-five years, and have two daughters, Jahna and Simone. As a family and as artists, their lives have been a true collaboration.
Dana Salvo has been the recipient of two awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and has twice received the Fulbright Scholar Award. A nationally recognized photographer, his work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions throughout the United States. He has also received grants from the Lila Wallace Fund; the Asian Cultural Council; the Massachusetts Cultural Council; the Berkshire Taconic Foundation's Artist Resource Trust; the LEF Foundation; and several other awards which assist artists in mid-career. His work is represented in numerous collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fogg Art Museum, San Francisco MOMA, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts and the Addison Gallery of American Art.
Dawn Southworth is equally recognized for her mixed media works and installations. She has been awarded artist fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council in both painting and drawing and is a recipient of a NEA/NEFA Fellowship in sculpture. She also is represented in museums, and public and private collections including the Addison Gallery of American Art, the DeCordova Museum, Fidelity, Wellington Management and the Boston Public Library. Southworth, a passionate collector, has the extraordinary ability to combine a vast range of materials and processes. Her use of found objects, drawing, sewing, pyrography, and construction are unified in emotionally charged imagery laden with metaphor and symbol grounded in a strong conceptual base.
Salvo is the author of Home Altars of Mexico. Published simultaneously by University of New Mexico Press in the United States as well as Thames and Hudson in Great Britain, the book is a result of his family's experience examining how people evoke sacredness in their everyday environments in the creation of devotional altars and household arrangements which sanctify and personalize the places in which they live.
Kristen Zeiser has been at Clark Gallery four years as Gallery Director. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Smith College in 2004, majoring in Visual Anthropology. Subsequently, Kristen entered the Museum Studies Program at Tufts University where she received a Certificate in Museum Studies in 2006. While at Tufts, Kristen was curator and programming director of artWork at the Tufts University Art Gallery. She also pursued an opportunity at the Montserrat College of Art Gallery to assist with exhibitions for an academic year and initiated Frame 301, a series of site-specific art installations hosted in expansive window fronts on Cabot Street in Beverly, MA. Kristen was awarded two grants by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Beverly Cultural Council to fund, in part, the two year project for which she served as Project Manager and Curator.
Additionally, Kristen was an administrative assistant at Sotheby's New England in 2005 and an Illustrations Researcher at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in 2003. While at the Smithsonian, Kristen conducted extensive research for The Handbook of North American Indians and developed the website for Picture Puzzles: Red Cloud's Manikin and His Uncle's Shirt, an exhibition at the Natural History Museum. Kristen's scholarly research also includes the Horace Poolaw Photography Project. She thoroughly analyzed the 5" x 7" and 4" x 5" photographs of Horace Poolaw, a pioneering Kiowa Indian photographer from the 1930's, in association with Smith College, The University of Arts and Sciences of Oklahoma in Chickasha, OK, and the Poolaw Family.
In her capacity as a curator and exhibitions director, Kristen has worked with many collectors, institutions, and artists with the selection and installation of works in a wide range of media.