# Clements Park

> Clements Park is the creative studio of Clem, a New York City-based sticker collage artist. Every piece is built from hundreds of hand-trimmed stickers sourced from daily life: product packaging, prescription bottles, luggage tags, corporate events, techno clubs. The materials are autobiographical. The process is entirely manual.

## Artist

Clem is a Korean American artist, NYU Stern MBA (Class of 2026), and former Gucci ecommerce operations associate. He is trilingual (English, Korean, Mandarin), was in foster care at 14, and built his art practice entirely from scratch with no inherited resources, no MFA, no gallery representation, and no institutional backing.

## Thesis

Every piece begins with something universally recognizable and embeds hidden layers of meaning: bilingual double meanings, subcultural stickers, insider signals legible only to certain audiences. The central question: who gets access to the full meaning of an object, and who only sees the surface?

## Works

### Port(rait) Authority Series
Three of the most famous faces in painting, remade from stickers.

- [Pirl with a Gearl Earring](https://clementspark.com/pages/pirl-with-a-gearl-earring): After Vermeer. 40 x 30 in. 2023. The earliest work and the seed of everything after.
- [Portrait of Krida Fahlo](https://clementspark.com/pages/portrait-of-krida-fahlo): After Kahlo. 40 x 30 in. 2024. The skin is built from tiny stickers of human bodies.
- [The Son of Businessman](https://clementspark.com/pages/son-of-a-businessman): After Magritte. 30 x 40 in. 2025. A faceless businessman made during business school, with brass grommet buttons.

### Clemfringements Series
Familiar logos hiding subcultures, jokes, and signals meant for a few.

- [Match My Intergalakteak](https://clementspark.com/pages/match-my-intergalakteak): NASA insignia parody reading NASTY, with resin pearl stars. 24 x 24 in. 2024.

### Lost & Found in Translation Series
Familiar objects with their words translated, revealing what changes and what doesn't.

- [MetroCard_KR](https://clementspark.com/pages/metrocard-kr): NYC MetroCard in Korean. Canvas cut to card shape with brass grommet. 36 x 24 in. 2024.

### United States of Clemerica Series
Flags for hyphenated identities, each at full strength on the same surface.

- [Korean American Flag](https://clementspark.com/pages/korean-american-flag): Hidden phone camera stickers in the black fields, stars built from many smaller stickers. 36 x 24 in. 2025.

## Medium

Hand-trimmed stickers on canvas. Each sticker is individually trimmed to remove white borders, then layered by hand. Materials are sourced from the artist's daily life. No digital generation in the construction of the work.

## Shop

Prints are available at [clementspark.com/collections/gift-shop](https://clementspark.com/collections/gift-shop):
- Giclee archival prints (editions of 25)
- Adhesive prints

## Links

- [About the Artist](https://clementspark.com/pages/about)
- [All Works](https://clementspark.com/pages/work)
- [Gift Shop](https://clementspark.com/collections/gift-shop)