WILL CLOUGHLEY

About the Artist

Will Cloughley is a mixed media artist, whose work encompasses drawing, airbrush, frottage, photography, and graphic design.  He has also taken these skills into the domain of media, specializing in original line art design, optical effects, animation, computer programming for multiple projection sources, and experimental site-specific staging for interdisciplinary forms of theatrical media.   He served on the board of directors for the San Francisco Multi-Image Showcase, a non-profit organization dedicated to the exhibition and advancement of multi-image as a fine art.  For 25 years he has owned and operated with his partner, Sondra Slade, the art-oriented production company, Synapse, featured in an article in Juxtapose magazine in 1999.

For the past 3 years, Cloughley has concentrated exclusively on fine art works on paper,  bringing to maturity his visual language and vision in a tactile medium.

Cloughley has created media shows that have appeared throughout the Bay Area, including the Zellerbach and Cowell theaters, Theater Artaud, the Mill Valley film festival, Marin Community Playhouse, and Camerawork Gallery.  Between 1988 and 1990 he produced four original works at Theater Artaud.  ARTWEEK MAGAZINE said: “Blade of Fire’s overall graphic design and effects were as articulate as they were stunning… Cyborg was dazzling in its clarity of graphics and motion design.”

Cloughley created three multi-image pieces for Dance Action and served as design and technical consultant to GEORGE COATES PRODUCTION WORKS, introducing computer control of projected images to GCPW.  He joined the PAUL DRESHER EMSEMBLE as multi-image designer for the sci-fi opera Power Failure, collaborating on the design of the set to integrate seven floating screens and creating all original photography and computer graphics for the visuals.

In 1991, Cloughley presented 3 original works in the INTERNATIONAL MULTI-IMAGE FESTIVAL IN MUNICH, receiving three Design Excellence awards.

In 1992 he premiered A.I.G.I. JOE at CYBERARTS in Pasadena, which KEYBOARD MAGAZINE called “an anti-war multi-image slide and laser show that stunned and amazed viewers.”

For 6 years he has been commissioned to design and stage environments for the SAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE’s annual gala banquet, featuring in 1998 the premier of his show called GEOTRON, a three-screen work that unfolds singular designs arising from the powers of the numbers one through ten.

Cloughley created immersive media environments for postmodernist theologian Matthew Fox’s ritual events called TECHNO COSMIC MASSES, and brought dense, high-impact light shows to the New Years concerts of the rock band PRIMUS at the Phoenix Theater, the Warfield, and  the Kaiser Auditorium.

His Gallery exhibitions include Greenwood Gallery, Seattle, 20 x 20 Gallery, San Francisco,  the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, and a Solo Exhibition at Gallery 276, San Francisco in 2006.