JR
Born	(1983-02-22) 22 February 1983 (age 29)
Nationality	French
Field	Street art, photography, graffiti

JR (born 22 February 1983^[1]) is the name of a photographer and artist whose identity is unconfirmed.^[2] He has described himself as a "photograffeur", he flyposts large black-and-white photographic images in public locations in a manner which is similar to the appropriation of the built environment by the graffiti artist.^[2] He states that the street is "the largest art gallery in the world."^[3][4] He started out on the streets of Paris.^[5] JR's work "often challenges widely held preconceptions and the reductive images propagated by advertising and the media."^[5]

JR's work combines art and action and deals with commitment, freedom, identity and limits.^[6] He has been introduced by Fabrice Bousteau as: "the one we already call the Cartier-Bresson of the 21st century".^[7] On 20 October 2010, JR won the TED Prize for 2011. "The TED Prize is awarded annually to an exceptional individual who receives $100,000 and, much more important, 'One Wish to Change the World.' Designed to leverage the TED community's exceptional array of talent and resources, the Prize leads to collaborative initiatives with far-reaching impact."^[8]

Life and career[link]

JR began his career as a teenage graffiti artist who was by his own admission not interested in changing the world, but in making his mark on public space and society. His graffiti often targeted precarious places like rooftops and subway trains, and he deeply enjoyed the adventure of going to and painting in these spaces. After finding a camera in the Paris Metro, JR and his friends began to document the act of his graffiti painting. At 17, he began applying photocopies of these photographs to outdoor walls.^[9]

JR later travelled throughout Europe to meet the people whose mode of artistic expression involved the use of outdoor walls.^[10] Then, he began wondering about the vertical limits, the walls and the façades that structure cities.^[6] After observing the people he met and listening to their message, JR pasted their portraits up in the streets and basements and on the roof tops of Paris.

Between 2004 and 2006, JR created Portraits of a Generation, portraits of young people from the housing projects around Paris that he exhibited in huge format. This illegal project became official when the City of Paris put JR’s photos up on buildings.^[11] At the beginning of his projects, JR wanted to bring art into the street: "In the street, we reach people who never go to museums."^[12]

In 2007, with Marco,^[13][14][15] JR put up enormous photos of Israelis and Palestinians face to face in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities on either side of the Separation Barrier. Upon his return to Paris, he pasted these portraits up in the capital. For the artist, this artistic act is first and foremost a human project: "The heroes of the project are all those who, on both sides of the wall, allowed me to paste the portraits on their houses."^[16][17]

In 2008, JR undertook an international tour for Women Are Heroes, a project in which he highlights the dignity of women who are often targets during conflicts.^[18]

JR calls himself an "urban artivist",^[19] he creates pervasive art that he puts up on the buildings in the Paris area projects, on the walls of the Middle East, on the broken bridges of Africa or in the favelas of Brazil. During the pasting phase, community members take part in the artistic process. In Brazil, for example, children became artists for a week.^[20] In these artistic acts, no scene separates the actors from the spectators.^[21]

After having exhibited in the cities from which JR’s subjects came, the photos traveled from New York to Berlin, Amsterdam to Paris ^[6][22] As JR remains anonymous and does not frame his huge portraits, he leaves a space for an encounter between a subject/protagonist and a passerby/interpreter, and this is the essence of his work.^[23]

Critical reception[link]

In 2010, during a radio program in San Diego, California, artist Shepard Fairey stated: "JR is the most ambitious street artist working."^[24] The newspaper le Monde has described his work as "revealing humanity."^[25]

In 2011, he received a prize from TED for his work.^[26]

Works[link]

[edit] 28 Millimetres

JR considers himself as "neither a street artist nor a photographer".^[27] To carry out his projects, he uses photography but also video, prints on paper or tarpaulins, urban spaces, books and especially social links.^[28] JR noted "I would like to bring art to improbable places, create projects so huge with the community that they are forced to ask themselves questions. I want to try to create images of hot spots such as the Middle East or Brazil that offer different points of view from the ones we see in the worldwide media which are often caricatures."^[27]

[edit] Portraits of a Generation

The Portraits of a Generation project constitutes the first stage of the 28mm project. After the first unauthorized exhibit on the walls of the Cité des Bosquets housing project, JR returned and set himself up of this housing project and the neighbouring one, the Cité de la Forestière, both in the epicenter of the 2005 riots in the French suburbs. The first portraits were rapidly exhibited on the walls of the last popular neighbourhoods of the capital, in the east of Paris. These photos provoked the passerby in as much as they questioned the social and media representation of a whole generation that for some is only to be seen relegated to the outskirts of the capital.^[29][30]

[edit] Face2Face

The Face2Face project tried to show that beyond what separates them, Israelis and Palestinians are enough alike to be able to understand one another. Israeli and Palestinian men and women who have the same jobs accepted to laugh or cry, to scream or pull faces in front of JR’s lense. The portraits created were pasted up face to face, in monumental format on either side of the Separation Wall and in several surrounding towns. JR photographed and Marco wrote, together succeeding in creating the largest unauthorized 20 urban art exhibit in the world.,^[31] la plus grande exposition d'art urbain au monde.^[15] The project’s goal was to show through images that art and laughter combined can break down prejudice.^[15]

The film Faces, directed by Gerard Maximin, about this artistic undertaking carried out in the Middle East by JR and Marco has won numerous prizes.^[32]

[edit] Women are Heroes

For this project, JR slipped into fantasmatic places, the ones you see on TV when there is violence, the ones you might go close to but never enter and that you will not find on any tourist guidebook tour.^[6] Women are Heroes introduces women who sometimes look death in the face, who go from laughter to tears, who are generous, have nothing and yet share, who have had a painful past and long to build a happy future. In seeking what is common in their gaze, JR tried to get closer to what is universal: the human being.^[6] This project allowed him to keep the promise he made to these women: faire voyager leur histoire.^[6][33][34]

[edit] Los Surcos de la Ciudad

The Los Surcos de la Ciudad project (The Wrinkles of the City) is based on the encounter between JR, the city of Cartagena, Spain, and its oldest inhabitants who are taken as the memory incarnate of the city, marked by the scars of its history, economic expansion and socio-cultural mutations. While meeting and photographing the elderly, JR imaged their wrinkles, the furrows of their brows, as the marks of time, the traces of their lives that are linked with the history of the city.^[35]

For JR, these older people are the living memory of a city changing faster than they themselves age. For him, every one of their wrinkles and each day that goes by are inscribed in the buildings and in the streets of old Cartagena that provided JR with a heterogeneous architecture.^[35]

In 2010, The Wrinkles of the City project reached Shanghai, China, as part of the Biennial at the Shanghai Art Museum.

[edit] Inside Out

The "Inside Out Project" is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work, black and white photographic portraits. The images are uploaded digitally and made into posters and sent back to the project’s co-creators for them to exhibit in their own communities.^[36][37] The project derived from the impulse to be collaborative. JR stated: "I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out." ^[36]

Feature film[link]

JR transferred his Women Are Heroes project to the cinema in directing a feature film made up of images of the pasting phase of the installations and interviews of the women. Through this documentary film, the artist shows us how he installed the portraits of the women in urban spaces and the reactions of the inhabitants. He explains "this film gathers the images and the words of the women he met, the day to day flow of their lives and experiences to create, through art, a reality different from the one shown in the media".^[7]

This first film was part of the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival in 2010.^[38] It was programmed in during La Semaine de la Critique (International Critics’ Week), and competed for the Caméra d'Or.^[39] In May 2010, JR was invited to present his film on Le Grand Journal on Canal+ in Cannes during the festival.^[40]

Exhibits[link]

• Exhibition "Encrages" at Gallery Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris, France ^[41]

• Exhibition and evening show (Théâtre Antique Arles) at Rencontres d’Arles, France.^[42]

• Exhibition and Inside Out Project Photo Booth Installation at Georges POMPIDOU museum Paris, France ^[43]

2007[link]

• Artcurial, Paris, France.
• Venice Biennale, Arsenal, Italy.
• Foam - Fotographiemuseum Amsterdam.
• Rencontres d'Arles, Photography, Arles, France.
• Artitud, Berlin, Germany.

2008[link]

• Tate Modern Museum, London, Great Britain.
• Cartagena, Spain.
• Musée Rath, Geneva.
• Brussels, Belgium.

2009[link]

• Paris, France, Ile Saint-Louis, Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Mairie du 4e arr.^[44]
• Arles, France, Les Rencontres de la Photographie.
• Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, Casa França Brasil.

2010[link]

• Shanghaï, China – Contemporary Art Biennal.
• Shanghaï, China – 18 Gallery - Magda Danysz - 'The Wrinkles of the City'^[45]
• Vevey, Switzerland, Elysée Museum – Festival Images.
• San Diego, USA MCASD Museum of Contemporary Art.
• Los Angeles, USA, Pop up Gallery, Downtown.
• Düsseldorf, Germany, Springmann Gallery.
• Cannes Film Festival, May 18 – Projection of Women Are Heroes.

Publications[link]

Books by JR[link]

• Carnet de Rue, Edition Free Presse, 2004.
• Portraits of a Generation, Editions Alternatives, 2005.
• Face 2 Face, Editions Alternatives, 2007.
• JR / 28 Millimeters, a journey through JR's 28mm projects, Editions Lazarides Gallery, London, 2008.
• JR, Editions Pyramyd, 2009.
• Women are Heroes by JR, Editions Alternatives, 2009.

Books featuring JR[link]

• Outsiders, Art by People, Compiled by Steve Lazarides, Editions Century, 2008.
• Qu’est ce que la photographie, Beaux Arts / TTM Editions, 2009.
• 60 Innovators Shaping our Creative Future, Editions Thames & Huston, 2009.
• Beyond the Street, The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, Editions Gestalten, 2010.

Prizes and awards[link]

JR is the winner of the 2011 TED prize. The prize of US$100,000 will be used to grant JR a "wish", which he has stated he would use to create a new project.^[46]

Prizes attributed to the film Faces by Gerard Maximin on the Face2Face project by JR and Marco:

References[link]

External links[link]

• JR official site
• Carnet2rue (Book of the street)
• Official project Site for 28 millimètres
• Women Are Heroes Official site for the film.
• Galerie Lazarides JR profile
• Galerie Springmann, Dusseldorf
• Galerie Magda Danysz, Shanghaï
• "The Lithographies" (work by JR) on the site Social Animals
• Le Blog Libération
• "The street art of JR" The Guardian, 7 March 2010.
• "JR: The hippest street artist since Banksy" The Times, 15 February 2009.
• In your face for peace! - Lens Culture, 7 July 2007.
• "JR uses images to challenge stereotypes" The Washington Post, 23 October 2006.

For the football player of the same name see Ed Beard (American football).

Ed Beard, or Edward Beard, aka Edward "Red" Beard, (18??-1873) was a gambler and saloon keeper of the Old West.

Beard is the son of the man who first settled Beardstown, Illinois. Originally from Illinois, Beard settled in Virginia, and was for a period a man of wealth, having married well. In 1861 at the outbreak of the Civil War, Beard promptly left his life behind and moved west. Traveling through California, Oregon and Colorado he developed a nasty reputation as being good with a gun, and having a bad temper.

By 1873 he had settled in Delano, Kansas, then a bustling town across the Arkansas River from Wichita, Kansas. He opened a successful saloon which for a time prospered. On October 27, 1873, he became angry with a prostitute who was in his saloon, but who worked across the street at the saloon owned by "Rowdy Joe" Lowe. He chased the girl outside, shooting at her. After chasing her across the street, still shooting, they entered the Lowe Saloon, where he accidentally shot and wounded a patron and another girl. Lowe opened fire, wounding Beard, who died on November 11.

References[link]

• Ed "Red" Beard
• Tihen Notes: 1873 Wichita Eagle

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Vickie Winans (born Viviane Bowman on October 18, 1953) is an American Gospel recording artist.

Biography[link]

The seventh of twelve children, Vickie was born in Detroit, Michigan to Mattie A. Bowman, a housewife, and Aaron Bowman, a father who worked at various times as a laborer, contractor, carpenter and mason. She began singing in church – the International Gospel Center – at the age of eight, and as a teenager she sang with a group known as the International Sounds of Deliverance. Some of her siblings include Beverly Bouldes, Sandi Tyler, Irma Crockett, Annette Tharpe, Aaron Bowman, Jr. (deceased), Carleen Riley, Cathy Williams, Tim Bowman, Mary Sturdivant, Bryan,and Lorne Bowman.^[1]

After high school, she married Bishop Ronald Brown of Faith Tabernacle Deliverance Temple in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Together they had a son, Mario Brown, now known as Mario Winans.^[1] In June 1978, she married Marvin Winans of the popular gospel group, The Winans. With Marvin she had a son, Marvin Jr. (Coconut). At the end of 2003, Vickie married businessman, Joe McLemore.^[1] Vickie lost her mother, Evangelist Mattie Bowman, on December 12, 2006.^[2]

Divorce[link]

In 1995 Vickie and Marvin Sr. divorced after almost 17 years of marriage. The stress of the divorce caused her to develop ulcers on her esophagus, diabetes and to gain weight. "I was sick from the stress of the divorce." Eventually, Vickie regained her health and re-energized her career.^[3]

Career[link]

It was her marriage to Marvin that led Vickie to consider a career in music. She was asked to, and joined, Winans Part II, a group that included then in-laws BeBe and CeCe Winans and brother Daniel Winans. However, the group never took off as BeBe and CeCe left to join the PTL Singers of the long-running Christian television show, The PTL Club.

Light Records: 1985–1990[link]

The Winans became the best selling act on their record label, Light Records, and this enabled husband Marvin to secure her a recording contract.^[1] Her solo album, Be Encouraged was released in 1987 and became a major gospel hit. The LP included a cover of Dottie Rambo's, "We Shall Behold Him", as well as "First Trumpet Sound," a gospelized remake of Gladys Knight & The Pips' "Midnight Train To Georgia." Be Encouraged netted a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album, a Stellar Award for Album of the Year, and an Excellence Award for Best Female Contemporary Artist.

Her followup album, Total Victory was markedly less successful, due in part to the financial floundering of Light Records after its flagship group, The Winans, left to join Quincy Jones' Qwest Records.

MCA Records: 1990–1991[link]

In 1990, Vickie signed, not to a gospel recording company but to Geffen Records. Unfortunately, Geffen was bought by Universal Records and Vickie's contract was shifted to sister label MCA Records. Dealing with a company that hadn't signed her, she found herself being subtly pushed to tone down the Christian message in her music. "They don't tell you, but you get the vibe," she said in 1999. "I don't ever, ever, ever want to be in that predicament again. It's one thing when you just sing a song where you don't use the actual name of Jesus, but it's a whole 'nother thing when you TRY not to use the name. For me, the name of Jesus will never be distasteful in my mouth. He's always the answer".^[4]

Her 1991 MCA release was The Lady which included production by R. Kelly, husband Marvin Winans, and her son Mario. The nine-song album was missing the name Jesus and controversially contained a rendition of West Side Story's "Somewhere". MCA then sent Vickie to that year's Stellar Awards television broadcast with dancers – a move that shocked the conservative Christian community, leading to the Winans having to issue a public apology.^[1]

This controversy led to the Gospel community not backing the album, and after also failing to break through on contemporary R&B radio, MCA eventually dropped Winans from their roster.

Intersound/CGI: 1994–2002[link]

After 3 years without a recording contract, former Word Records executive James Bullard signed Vickie to Intersound Records, an Atlanta-based classical recording label, for which he was forming a gospel music division. Her label debut Vickie Winans rose to #10 on the gospel charts, spawning the hits Work It Out and We Shall Behold Him. However, she developed nodes on her vocal cords, causing her to fail to hit all the right notes in her re-recording of We Shall Behold Him.^[1]

[edit] Live in Detroit

She ran across a James Cleveland classic tune from the 1960s called As Long As I Got King of Jesus and used it as the lead single and megahit for a traditionally-styled album in 1997 titled Live In Detroit. Recorded live at Bishop Andrew Merrit's Straight Gate Church, Winans recorded simple arrangements of "Great Is Thy Faithfulness", Bill Gaither's "Because He Lives" and Candi Staton's "The Blood Rushes". Another James Cleveland classic, "No Cross, No Crown", was also a hit from the album.

Intersound/CGI financed a video for "Long As I Got King Jesus", that boosted the sales of the album. It eventually sold 200,000 units.^[1] The album earned Winans a Grammy nomination for Best Soul Gospel Album and two Stellar Award nominations for Best Female Vocalist and Best Video ("Long As I Got King Jesus").

[edit] Live in Detroit II and Share the Laughter

Intersound/CGI realized and capitalized on Winans' star quality by planning to release three Vickie Winans albums in 1999; a May release of Live In Detroit II, followed by the Share The Laughter comedy album in July and capping the year with an October release called "Woman To Woman: Songs Of Survival. They launched their most expensive marketing campaign ever to promote the project^{[citation needed]}. They bought full page color ads in magazines, shot a concept video for the song "Already Been To The Water" and hired Capital Entertainment (which handled CeCe Winans and Bishop T. D. Jakes at the time) to handle Winans' press coverage. They were able to book Vickie on Queen Latifah, various BET shows and Jenny Jones, among other high profile television programs and got her the most press coverage she'd had since she toured with the Winans Family Tour in 1992.^[1]

Live in Detroit II was a major success, reaching #3 on the gospel charts, only failing to top the charts because of Kirk Franklin's success with The Nu Nation Project in the same year.

Share the Laughter did not do as well, but for a standup comedy album, its sales were far from disappointing considering Intersound/CGI was on its last legs and soon closed.^[5]

Hiatus: 2000–2002[link]

Vickie Winans troubles with recording companies continued after Intersound/CGI closed and released her from her contract. In early 2000, she signed with Tommy Boy Gospel. Woman To Woman was scheduled as the third album in the trilogy, but the label folded before the album could be released.

In 2002, she signed with Verity Records at the invitation of her longtime friend Max Siegel who had assumed leadership of the label.^[5]

Verity Records: 2003–2006[link]

After a four-year hiatus, in 2003, Winans released Bringing It All Together which featured "Shake Yourself Loose", written and produced by her son, Mario. Leaving nothing to chance, she dipped deep into her own pockets to create a marketing strategy that most gospel labels would never spend on a project. She spent well over $200,000 creating five music videos, hiring independent radio teams, promotional marketing teams and creating a 50 city-promotional concert tour to launch the CD.^[5]

The strategy paid off as the album debuted at #1 on the Billboard gospel music charts. It spent nine weeks at #1 and a full year in the Top 10.^[6] The album also garnered 8 Stellar Award nominations, winning 5, and a Grammy nomination.

Woman to Woman: Songs of Life, was released on August 8, 2006.^[7]

[edit] How I Got Over

How I Got Over (Destiny Joy Records) is the name of Winans' self-produced CD that was released on August 25, 2009. The eleven-song project is a well-blended collage of traditional and urban contemporary songs.^{[citation needed]} Her first radio single, “How I Got Over” is Winans’ personal testimony. Taking a line from an old hymn classic favorite, Winans creates a brand new song that celebrates her victories, faith and trust in God.^{[citation needed]} It opens with an upbeat, but old school church flavor and breaks down into a contemporary vamp before she slams a closing with her nephew, Tim Bowman Jr. who lays down some jazzy scats. The song's music video was shot in the basement of Winans' home.^[8]

Current activities[link]

Most recently, Winans requested and was granted a release from her recording contract with Verity Records in order to pursue her independent venture, Destiny Joy Records. The new label's name is very personal to Vickie Winans:

"Right after I had my son, Coconut (Marvin Winans Jr.), I got pregnant with a little girl. We were planning to name her Destiny Joy Winans. Unfortunately, however, I miscarried during my fifth month and lost my baby who only weighed one pound. I named that baby Marvlyn Loreal Winans after her father Marvin Lawrence Winans Sr and kept the name Destiny Joy alive - not knowing one day that I would start this label and name it after her".^[9]

Through Destiny Joy, she intends to release a fitness DVD titled Laugh While You Lose, a comedy DVD, and a Christmas album, in addition to releases from signees Denise Tichenor and Datisha Pickett^{[citation needed]}.

Her profile on BET's Sunday morning TV series "Lift Every Voice" remains the most watched episode in that program's history with over 800,000 viewers.^[6]

Recently, Black Entertainment Television (BET) signed Winans to host a new comedy TV series, “A Time to Laugh.” Winans has already begun taping and is signed on to tape 30 episodes that feature her plus other G-rated comedians and inspirational music. The show focuses on good clean family comedy. The series was supposed to debut on BET in January 2010. but never aired. Also In 2011 Winans premiered her new video for the song release it, from her mega hit album How I Got Over. In 2011 she was hired as the sarah/waters in the upcoming film Sparkle, staring whitney houston, jordan sparks and many other stars.

Albums[link]

• Be Encouraged (Light, 1985)
• Total Victory (Light, 1989)
• Best of All (Light, 1991)
• The Lady (Selah/MCA, 1991)
• Vickie Winans (Intersound, 1995)
• Live In Detroit (Intersound, 1997)
• Live In Detroit II (Intersound, 1999)
• Share the Laughter (CGI/Platinum, 1999)
• Best of Vickie Winans (CGI/Platinum, 2002)
• Bringing It All Together (Verity platinum, 2003)
• Greatest Hits (Light/Artemis, 2005)
• Woman to Woman: Songs of Life (Verity, 2006)
• Happy Holidays from Vickie Winans (Destiny Joy, 2007)
• Praise & Worship (Verity, 2008)
• How I Got Over (Destiny Joy, 2009)
• How I Got Over Remix (Destiny Joy, 2010)
• Radio One Family Comdedy Tour, Vol.1 (Destiny Joy, 2010)
• Vickie Winans "Unplugged and Hilarious" Comedy DVD Vol.1 (Destiny Joy, 2012)
• Vickie Winans Unplugged and Hilarious Comedy DVD Vol.2 (Destiny Joy, 2012)

Notable singles[link]

• "Don't Throw Your Life Away"
• "We Shall Behold Him"
• "Just When (featuring Marvin Winans)"
• "Work It Out"
• "Shake Yourself Loose"
• "It's Alright"
• "Special Day"
• "The Rainbow"
• "Kids Love Jesus Too"
• "How I Got Over"
• "Holiday Jam"
• "Release it"

External links[link]

• www.vickiewinans.com Vickie Winans official Internet site
• Vickie Winans at Allmusic

References[link]

Gary C. Clark (born May 1, 1962) is a former professional American football wide receiver in the National Football League who played for the Washington Redskins (1985–1992), Phoenix Cardinals (1993–1994) and Miami Dolphins (1995).

Early life[link]

Clark attended and played high school football at Pulaski County High School in Dublin, Virginia.

College career[link]

Clark played college football at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where he caught 155 passes for 2,863 yards and 16 touchdowns. He also had three punt returns for touchdowns, including 89- and 87-yard returns in a game during the 1983 season against the University of Virginia. Clark was at James Madison during the Dukes' first four Division I-AA seasons. He caught 46 passes for James Madison's 8-3 team in 1982 and had 57 receptions in 1983. He was the Virginia offensive player of the year in 1982 and an honorable mention All-American in 1982 and 1983.

Clark became the first person in James Madison history to have his jersey retired.

Professional career[link]

USFL[link]

After college, Clark played for the Jacksonville Bulls of the United States Football League after being picked in the United States Football League draft. He played for the Bulls in 1984 and 1985.

NFL[link]

Clark was selected by the Washington Redskins in the second round of the 1984 NFL Supplemental Draft of USFL and CFL Players.

In 1985, he signed with the Redskins and had a superb rookie season, recording 72 receptions for 926 yards and five touchdowns. Clark quickly established himself as one of the top receivers in the NFL. He followed up his superb rookie season in 1986 with a Pro Bowl year catching 74 passes for 1,265 yards and seven touchdowns. Clark set a Redskin record for receiving yards in a game during a Monday Night Football contest with the New York Giants. He caught 11 passes for 241 yards and a touchdown. The record still stands today as the "most receiving yards in a non-strike game" (Anthony Allen surpassed Clark's tally during the 1987 strike season). The Redskins went on to finish 12-4 and defeated the reigning Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears, 27-13, in a divisional playoff game but lost to the Giants in the NFC Championship game, 17-0.

In 1987, Clark again had a Pro Bowl year, catching 56 passes for 1,066 and seven touchdowns. He achieved these numbers in only 11 games, as a player strike shortened the season by one game and replacements played three games. No Redskin player crossed the picket line and the replacements went 3-0. Clark was only one of four NFL receivers to surpass 1,000 yards. By this time, he had caught the eye of CBS commentator John Madden. Clark's toughness, big-play ability and willingness to block made him a regular on the All Madden Team during his playing career. The Redskins went on to finish 11-4, winning the NFC East crown. In the playoffs, the Redskins defeated the Chicago Bears in the Divisional Playoff game for the second year in a row, 21-17. Clark caught three passes for 57 yards and a touchdown in the NFC Championship game against the Minnesota Vikings. The Redskins won, 17-10, to earn the right to play in Super Bowl XXII. Clark caught three passes for 55 yards and a touchdown, while also rushing for 25 yards in Washington's 42-10 rout of John Elway and the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XXII.

Clark's numbers dropped in 1988 as he caught 59 passes for 892 yards and seven touchdowns. The Redskins finished a paltry 7-9 and missed the playoffs. He returned to form in 1989, catching 79 passes (a career high) for 1,229 yards and nine touchdowns. The Redskins finished 10-6 but missed the playoffs again because of a 5-6 start. Clark, along with fellow receivers Art Monk and Ricky Sanders, surpassed the 1,000 yard mark in 1989. This was the first time in NFL History that three receivers from one team all went over the 1,000 yard mark in the same year.

In 1990, Clark had another Pro Bowl year and the Redskins made the playoffs. He caught 75 passes for 1,112 yards and eight touchdowns. The Redskins went on to beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 20-6, in an NFC Wild Card game. Clark caught four passes for 63 yards and a touchdown. The Redskins lost the next week to the San Francisco 49ers, 28-10.

In 1991, Clark and the Redskins tore through the NFL. He caught 70 passes for 1,340 yards and ten touchdowns. His 19.1 yards per catch was second in the NFL. Clark caught four passes for 203 yards and three touchdowns in Washington's 56-17 rout of the Atlanta Falcons in week 11. The Redskins finished 14-2, won the NFC East, and claimed home field advantage throughout the playoffs. Washington beat Atlanta, 24-7, and crushed Detroit, 41-10, to earn a berth in Super Bowl XXVI against the Buffalo Bills. Clark had a big day with seven catches for 114 yards and a touchdown in Washington's 37-24 defeat of the Bills. The Redskins led 24-0 early in the third quarter, but Buffalo cut the lead to 24-10. His 30-yard touchdown reception in the third quarter was instrumental in thwarting a comeback attempt by the Bills.

Clark, Monk and Sanders gave the Redskins one of the best receiving corps in the NFL during the late 1980s and early 1990s. They were known as The Posse. Clark was long known as the most fiery spirit of the bunch, and he was known to run laps around RFK Stadium after touchdowns and during Redskins comebacks. Clark signed with the Phoenix Cardinals as a free agent prior to the 1993 season, and the Redskins have only made the playoffs three times since.

Clark retired from the NFL after the 1995 season. In his 11 NFL seasons, he caught 699 passes for 10,856 yards and 65 touchdowns, while rushing for 54 yards and gaining 62 yards on nine punt returns. He also had twenty-seven 100-yard games wearing the Redskins uniform. Clark was a four-time Pro Bowl selection in 1986, 1987, 1990, and 1991. He was also a three-time All-Pro selection. He led his team in receiving seven times (1986, 1987, 1989–1992, 1994), and won two Super Bowls, Super Bowl XXII and Super Bowl XXVI, during his NFL career.

Clark was the first receiver in NFL history to catch at least 50 passes in his first ten NFL seasons. As of 2009, the only other players to do so have been Marvin Harrison and Torry Holt.

Notes[link]

Clark was the owner of the now closed South Beach Restaurant and Martini Lounge in Bethesda, Maryland.

He was inducted into the Redskins Ring of Honor on October 7, 2007 and concluded his speech with, "We are going to spank Detroit's butt." The Redskins won the game, 34-3.

In 2007, he was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.

External links[link]

• Clark's statistics
• More Career Stats
• Gary Clark Biography
• JMU Athletic Hall of Fame

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Philip Xenidis, better known as Phil X (born 10 March 1966), is a Greek-born Canadian ^[1] guitarist and co-founder of the Los Angeles-based turbo pop band Powder. He also has a second band, the Drills. He is best known as the guitarist who replaced Rik Emmett in the Canadian rock band Triumph, for the Edge of Excess album and tour and as the Guitar Reviewer of fretted americana^[2] on YouTube.

An early opportunity in Xenidis's career came when he was asked in 1990 to tour with Randy Coven, whom he met through Aldo Nova; in 1991, he toured the US with Aldo Nova.^[3]

Phil X is a prolific session guitarist, having played on albums by Tommy Lee, Methods of Mayhem, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Orianthi, Rob Zombie, Chris Daughtry, Alice Cooper, Thousand Foot Krutch and many others. He wrote the song "Tired" and also played guitar on Tommy Lee's Tommyland: The Ride album. He has appeared with Lee on Ellen and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Phil X was featured in the "making of" video for the movie Josie and the Pussycats. He, along with his Powder bandmates, taught the young actresses to appear as if they were actually playing their instruments.^[4]

He has performed with the band Frozen Ghost. Phil X is also the inventor of the "Flip Stick," an innovative replacement for the "whammy bar" on Floyd-Rose-equipped guitars.

Since 2008, Phil X has been a faculty member of Camp Rock, a camp in Ontario for aspiring musicians.^{[citation needed]}

In April and May 2011, Phil X substituted for Bon Jovi's lead guitarist Richie Sambora, who could not be present for the required dates. He played the last 13 American shows of Bon Jovi's 2011 world tour.

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External links[link]

• Official Web site of Phil X
• Camp Rock Faculty member since 2008
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