Sylvia Lark best known as an Abstract expressionist painter and printmaker.
11 Facts About Sylvia Lark
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Sylvia Lark went to high school at Nardin Academy in Buffalo.
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Sylvia Lark taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1977 until 1990.
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Sylvia Lark was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award for teaching studio art by the College Art Association posthumously in 1991.
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Sylvia Lark's early work used symbols and patterns, and there was a shift in her later career with more abstraction and overlapping colors with delicate textured surfaces.
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Sylvia Lark painted in oils and encaustics and printed monotypes.
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Sylvia Lark's 1983 painting series Jokhang, featured many textures and layers of colors painted over or under black leaves.
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Sylvia Lark was curator of the exhibition, Prints: New Points of View at the Open Ring Galleries in Sacramento.
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Sylvia Lark had served on the National Board of the Women's Caucus for Art from 1978 to 1984; and was the Regional Coordinator for the Coalition of Women's Art Organization from 1978 to 1990.
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Sylvia Lark died on cancer at the age of 43 in Berkeley on December 27,1990.
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Sylvia Lark's works are in the museum collections at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Crocker Art Museum, Sheldon Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.