bio

Clements Park is a New York-based artist working at the intersection of consumer culture and cultural legibility.

His work begins with a simple observation: the same object can contain multiple complete realities simultaneously. Which one you experience depends entirely on what you bring to it.

His practice centers on large-scale sticker collages, each canvas built from hundreds of hand-trimmed stickers, white borders removed with precision, layered to create visual coherence while deliberately concealing trademarked and copyrighted imagery. The obstruction is the argument. The concealed trademark is not a workaround, but it's a comment on who owns a visual language, made from the very materials that saturate it.

Some pieces go further. MetroCard_KR contains a Korean-language double meaning that has been displayed publicly and never caught by anyone without the cultural key. The Korean American Flag constructs a hyphenated identity not by placing two flags side by side, the standard representation, but by merging them into a single surface made from the actual material of a lived life. No border. No hierarchy. No clean division.

The gap between what an outsider sees and what an insider knows is not incidental; it is the subject of the work.

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