Monet Clark

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

BUNNY GIRL is screening from 1-5pm at Krowswork Gallery every Saturday through 6/4/16; and on 6/3, from 5-9pm for First Friday’s art walk; or by appointment (click contact to schedule).

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Running time 28 min 50 sec: Driven by the crises state of our eco-systems and social unrest, the title character Bunny Girl combines an eroticized Playboy “bunny” with the animal of the same name and traverses landscapes that point to our dystopian present. With wry humor Bunny Girl ties the mentality which destroys our wild places without conscience,  which marginalizes and threatens women and indigenous people, and which disregards human and animal suffering, to the suppression of the feminine. This work maps a range of bodily and spiritual awarenesses that women both suffer from and thrive under in an evolving earth consciousness, that nonetheless is blossoming in the face of attack.

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Krowswork Gallery’s writing on BUNNY GIRL my performance/video film debuting 5.6.16 for First Friday, at The Fates Residency!

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“For her residency, Monet has immersed herself in the completion of her latest video work, Bunny Girl. This piece follows in the spirit of her previous performance vignettes that take a wry and wide view of women’s self image whilst they navigate social stereotypes. Bunny Girl, however, is an experimental narrative in which Monet’s character performs in sweeping landscapes, driven by the crises state of our planet’s eco-systems and social unrest. Bunny Girl conflates an eroticized Playboy “bunny” with the animal of the same name, tying in the link between environmental degradation and the suppression of the feminine. This work maps a range of bodily and spiritual awareness that women both suffer and thrive under, in an evolving earth consciousness that nonetheless is blossoming in the face of attack.” –Krowswork Gallery

“Any real quest for enlightenment is a dark and dirty business full of suffering as you unbind layers, that lighten you up as you go.
The yin and the yang are parts of the same whole. And to me EVERYTHING is spiritual and life in all its dimensions is a constant practice.
I’ve walked this edge in my work and my life for a long time.” – MC

Announcing The Fates evolving exhibition and residency at Krowswork Gallery, with Monet Clark, Kally Williams & Nicole Shaffer  4.22 to 6.3 2016

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From Krowswork: “This exhibition/residency represents a clearing of space and an announcement of a new destiny, woven by three artists on their own terms. Each is dealing more or less directly with healing in her work: a repairing of trauma through ritualized art space and practice, a radical reimagining and re-imaging of what is possible for the natural world and our relationship to it, and a reclaiming of all parts of the female, who has historically been parted out by the patriarchal systems, into a single, powerful whole.”

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From Krowswork Gallery “Director DALE HOYT with his lead actress MONET CLARK, at the premier of FARM”

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1/1/16. FARM is screening again this weekend 1/8th,9th, 10th at Krowswork Gallery in Oakland.

Screenings start every 45 minutes, starting at the opening of each day: FRI 4-8, SAT 1-4, and closing SUN 2-4. Also this Friday, as part of the Krowsworkerwork exhibition, there is a SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY PALOMA MODUPE at 8 p.m. Be there or be square.

 

HUFFPOST ARTS and CULTURE, “Screening Printing Survey Spans the Streets to the Sublime”

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Piece on Buddha Cat Press, including one image of ‘Pretty Revolutionary’ collaboration by Monet Clark and Karen Fiorito