John Clem Clarke is a celebrated artist from Bend, Oregon, with pieces in museum collections around the world including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Modern Museum of Art. His work references the formalist tradition of painting and vintage illustration, and demonstrates its evolution into the digital age. These digital pieces that he has been creating for nearly 20 years build on the body of work, primarily oil paintings, that he had been producing since the 1960s. Themes of nostalgia, impermanence, and the deeply personal relationship one has with ephemeral art run throughout his work in seemingly unrelated subjects. The subject matter has ranged from Old Master Works, comic book inspired backgrounds, and reenactments of classical Greek myths. He began working with Adobe Photoshop in the early aughts as he began to phase out use of stencils.