A performance, video and photographic artist working on both sides of the camera in wryly humorous, semi-autobiographical, feminist pieces.
“Monet Clark presents large-scale videos from her Look Book series. Set in austere, yet jewel-like environments, Clark embodies and employs the slick 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 embody the actual ritual potential of the medium.”
“She confronts the perception of differing women characters that are perceived in our contemporary world…accompanied with irony & mockery that provide a since of truth…” –Art in Limbo Blog 2011
“She confronts the perception of differing women characters that are perceived in our contemporary world…accompanied with irony & mockery that provide a since of truth…” –Art in Limbo Blog
“…A remarkable show…Collectively they tell a meta-narrative but each piece is also a free standing chapter that expertly practices a narrative minimalism worthy of Linda Montano or Cindy Sherman….She plays with looking directly at the camera/viewer and yet not accusingly, as a lesser feminist artist might. It’s more of a “better-not-tell” kind of look of collaboration. -Stretcher 2011
“…a remarkable show…Collectively they tell a meta-narrative but each piece is also a free standing chapter that expertly practices a narrative minimalism worthy of Linda Montano or Cindy Sherman….She plays with looking directly at the camera/viewer and yet not accusingly, as a lesser feminist artist might. It’s more of a “better-not-tell” kind of look of collaboration. -Stretcher
