Monet Clark

A performance, video and photographic artist working on both sides of the camera in wryly humorous, semi-autobiographical, feminist pieces.

INDYBAY.ORG, EAST BAY WOMYN, MONET CLARK, CALIFORNIA GIRL a RETROSPECTIVE DEBUT

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“The retrospective features two videos in which Clark, as both director and performer exposes herself in ways ostensibly meant to engage the (male) gaze. Yet in each of them there is a built-in revulsion, and the expectation of a purely sensual, one-sided show is soon thwarted.”

Krowswork show indybay

SOLO SHOW: MONET CLARK: CALIFORNIA GIRL A RETROSPECTIVE DEBUT, KROWSWORK GALLERY, Oakland, CA

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“The most recent group of works, then, provides an aesthetic and energetic catharsis. Titled the “Look Book” series, these bold videos date from 2011…Set in austere, yet jewel-like environments, Clark embodies and employs the visual language of the fashion world to perform acts from the sacred to the mundane, creating moving video portraits iconographic of 21st-century California culture. The resultant pieces are sumptuously spare, raw and honest, wickedly humorous, and hold a powerful intimacy, all emanating from this one-of-a-kind California Girl.” –Krowswork Gallery

Krowswork Nov 2011

RADICAL LIGHT, THAT LITTLE RED DOT, CINEMATHEQUE, San Francisco

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“Join us for an evening of the early works and rarities of some of the field’s major artists”

photo: still of Monet Clark’s Convulsive Stripper

BUDDHA CAT PRESS, Monet Clark’s Thanka Prayer Blessing Incantation Medicine Spells

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Four images from Clarks drawings series have been masterfully printed in 11 color hand silk screens, by Karen Fiorito. To order: click contact.

 

The thing about esoteric work is that each culture’s mystic practices speak to the same truths that now neuroscience & sub-atomic physics are addressing, as science is finally understanding many things which indigenous peoples & many culture’s across millennia have known all along. Its all coming to the forefront now as humanity faces its own extinction if the dominant mindset doesn’t open to understand a few basic things…

At mystic painter Hilma af Klint’s magnificent exhibition at the Guggenheim NYC, with their largest attendance: 600,000 visitors! This painting…