About the Artist

Emery Clark was born in New Orleans and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Newcomb College studying painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, and printmaking and a Master of Fine Arts from Tulane University studying painting and environmental art and design.  She also attended Boston University School of Fine Arts and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture where she studied classical drawing and painting and printmaking. 

Emery has received numerous awards including the Thomas J. Watson Traveling Fellowship to study art, architecture and environmental design in the Near East, all Western European countries, Scandinavia, North Africa, Central America, and Mexico and the Society for the Arts in Healthcare 1^st Place in International Healing Arts Competition Award for her work in Ochsner Health Center, their Hospital for Children, and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. She has executed innumerable public works of art including the “NOMA Nile” for the New Orleans Museum of Art, “Treasures of Tutankhamen” exhibition.

Her work is in museums, as well as over 100 public corporate collections, including Citicorp, Coca-Cola, the Virlane Foundations, New Orleans Museum of Art, IBM and Chase Manhattan Bank and thousands of private collections.

She has focused most of her recent work in health care, using all of the arts at Ochsner Health System, the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery, and the St. Charles Surgical Hospital, Children’s Hospital, Touro, and in numerous other healthcare facilities around the country. Her work uses the vocabulary of landscape and seascape to bring peace and calm as well as a celebration of nature and as an acknowledgement of a need to revere and preserve the environment.