Monet Clark

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

In Memoriam, avant-garde video art master Dale Hoyt

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Dale Hoyt (MFA’80) passed away peacefully on April 12, 2022, just two weeks after being diagnosed with a terminal illness. He chose to keep his condition private with just a few close friends knowing, and he was surrounded by their love during his final days. His passing came as a shock to many and inspired an outpouring of remembrances collected here on the SFAA website. This link https://www.sfartistsalumni.org/dale-hoyt-memorial allows you to write a remembrance of your own and provides a 360 degree view of Dale Hoyt the man and avant-garde video artist, as written about and photographed by colleagues, his students, museum curators, gallery directors, collaborators, producers, friends and more.
 
His life story took place on the wild side of American subculture, within a confluence of the art world, music scenes, and pop-culture. Dale Hoyt was a great and rare talent and his contribution to the SFAI and Bay Area art communities is immeasurable.
–– Monet Clark
 
(SFAA wishes to thank Monet Clark, Lior Bar and Kathy Brew for collecting these remembrances to make this beautiful tribute page to Dale).
 
 
 

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CatSynth TV for Farm & Friends in 3D! An exhibition featuring Dale Hoyt’s film Farm where I play the lead, and works by cast members including my Bunny Girl, all at Telematic Gallery in SF!

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Telematic Gallery 323 10th St. at Folsom in San Francisco. Farm and Friends in 3D! is open during the Folsom Street Fair and runs through our closing party on Oct 12, 2019 2-4pm. My performance video movie Bunny Girl is screening on loop as part of this exhibition, along with Dale Hoyt’s 3D film Farm in which I play the lead.

Still from the protestors segment of BUNNY GIRL…& Bunny Girl philosophy

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I learned from the years of being so ill that I couldn’t lift my arms & legs, a dichotomy: to face the hard truth in the moment while still believing in positive possibilities to come & not getting jaded by the horrors of life. Our thoughts & beliefs assist in creating the future. We all need to remember what is possible & know with confidence that we will reform these racist corrupt systems, just like I rebuilt my body back from near death. We are powerful & it starts with “I have a dream” & not buying into the ugliness…

BUNNY GIRL protestors

Premier! DALE HOYT’s experimental narrative 3D film FARM with MONET CLARK in the lead role, accompanied by an all art-star cast, screens January 1st, 2016 3-7 pm at Krowswork Gallery, Oakland CA

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“…the tragicomedy invokes gentrification as a symbol for a greater fatalistic existential crises that faces the world and every personal soul.” –Krowswork Gallery

  • Monet Clark with her on screen dad Winston Tong

  • Mary Elizabeth Yarborough and Winston Tong
  • Helios Creed, Halo the dog
  • Monet Clark pictured with Farm’s writer & director Dale Hoyt

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.