Monet Clark

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

Invocation Democracy, Episode 303 curator Monet Clark’s walk through, CatSynth TV (video)

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Art provides us with a liminal space wherein momentary suspensions from our patterned thoughts and identities can be experienced, allowing for us to align with new states of awareness. Art can reveal cultural biases and their impacts, function as a catalyst for change, and it builds culture. As we nationally and globally navigate through this time of political, social, environmental and health crises the voice of the artist is needed now more than ever. With a nod to Holistic Theory and Intersectional Feminism or what I like to refer to as Holistic Intersectionality, and through the synergy of the sum of its parts, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides a virtual space to reflect on and envision the preservation and repair of our democracy. Joining together painters, performance, video, interdisciplinary and recording artists from across the nation, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides an interstice for grief, a necessary step for action, and suggests that all of our intentions, actions and our votes matter, especially during this time of transitioning power structures.

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY proposes that a healthy democracy protects not only all of the people within its borders, but also the land within its boundaries, through policies which promote proper land stewardship and management, which includes protections of animals with respect to local and global ecosystems. It maintains that healthy regional democracies engage in practices which contribute healthfully to the global climate both socially, politically and environmentally. It explores the links between Climate Change and misogyny, empire, white supremacy and cultural biases that are dismissive of indigenous perspectives globally, the mystic, the intuitive, the feminine, and the sentience of animals and nature. INVOCATION DEMOCRACY contemplates the impacts of all of these on our ailing democracy, and just what it may take to transform it. — Monet Clark, curator

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY Zoom webinar artist’s talk: The interplay between climate justice, human & animal rights, mysticism & a healthy democracy. Nov. 15 12 noon PST 3pm EST

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YOU ARE INVITED THIS SUNDAY TO ATTEND AN EXCITING FREE WEBINAR CONVERSATION, WITH 4 OF VIRTUAL EXHIBITION INVOCATION DEMOCRACY’S EXHIBITING ARTISTS.
Presented by Pro Arts Commons, moderated by its curator Monet Clark, this talk will revolve around the motivations behind the artist’s works and the show’s themes which include: the liminality of artistic practice, art as cultural activation, and the interplay between a healthy democracy, climate justice, human and animal rights, and mysticism.
Sunday, November 15, 2020 12noon PST.
 
Spend an hour with legendary, Indigenous American history interventionist Edgar Heap of Birds in OK, seminal British feminist performance artist, surrealist and mystic Penny Slinger in L.A., performance and video artist Jennifer Locke in S.F. whose physically intense sculptural actions in relationship with specific architecture draw from her experiences as a dominatrix and wrestler, and ecological performance artist, filmmaker, and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism John DiLeva Halpern in NYC.
Images from INVOCATION DEMOCRACY, A Political and Mystical Virtual Exhibition: Mariee Sioux music video “Black Snakes”; Penny Slinger, Heavy Lifting-2; John DiLeva Halpern, video still from For George Floyd the Martyr –A Meditation Pause From the Sacred Grounds of Minneapolis; Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds, Proud Brave Brutal.
 
 

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY: A Political & Mystical Virtual Exhibition

curated by Monet Clark for Pro Arts Commons, Oakland OPENS 10/30/20 – Inauguration Day 1/20/21

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To enter the exhibition’s 3D galleries please click this link: proartscommons.org/invocationdemocracy and be sure to visit all 3 galleries for the full experience.

CURATED BY MONET CLARK FOR PRO ARTS 

October 30, 2020 – January 20, 2021, Inauguration Day holding vigil for a peaceful transition of power and the democracy we envision. Accessible worldwide through multiple 3D galleries embedded into this website.

Art provides us with a liminal space wherein momentary suspensions from our patterned thoughts and identities can be experienced, allowing for us to align with new states of awareness. Art can reveal cultural biases and their impacts, function as a catalyst for change, and it builds culture. As we nationally and globally navigate through this time of political, social, environmental and health crises the voice of the artist is needed now more than ever. With a nod to Holistic Theory and Intersectional Feminism or what I like to refer to as Holistic Intersectionality, and through the synergy of the sum of its parts, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides a virtual space to reflect on and envision the preservation and repair of our democracy. Joining together painters, performance, video, interdisciplinary and recording artists from across the nation, INVOCATION DEMOCRACY provides an interstice for grief, a necessary step for action, and suggests that all of our intentions, actions and our votes matter, especially during this time of transitioning power structures.

INVOCATION DEMOCRACY proposes that a healthy democracy protects not only all of the people within its borders, but also the land within its boundaries, through policies which promote proper land stewardship and management, which includes protections of animals with respect to local and global ecosystems. It maintains that healthy regional democracies engage in practices which contribute healthfully to the global climate both socially, politically and environmentally. It explores the links between Climate Change and misogyny, empire, white supremacy and cultural biases that are dismissive of indigenous perspectives globally, the mystic, the intuitive, the feminine, and the sentience of animals and nature. INVOCATION DEMOCRACY contemplates the impacts of all of these on our ailing democracy, and just what it may take to transform it. — Monet Clark, curator

Featured artists in this exhibition:
April Bey • Karen Finley • Edgar Fabián Frías • Frightwig and Timothy Crandle • Guillermo Gómez-Peña • John DiLeva Halpern • Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds • Jamil Hellu • Dale Hoyt • Merritt Johnson • Monet Clark  with music by Mia Kaneen • Facing West Shadows / Lydia Greer and Caryl Kientz • Minnette Lehmann • Sang Chi Liu • Jennifer Locke • Darrin Martin • Ann McCoy • Lady Monster • Linda Montano • Shalo P • Charles Schneider • Christine Shields • John Sims • Mariee Sioux and Kacey Johansing • Penny Slinger • Emily Harris and Dano Wall • Liz Walsh

HABITAT CALIFORNIA: Flora and Fauna is opening Sat. 2/8/20 6-9pm thro 4/18/20 with over 80 pieces of art including Monet Clark’s Bunny Girl, at Palos Verdes Art Center 5504 Crestridge Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes curated by Artillery’s Tulsa Kinney

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HABITAT CALIFORNIA: Flora & Fauna
February 8 – April 18, 2020 opening Feb. 8th 6-10pm
Invitational and Juried Exhibition
Juror: Tulsa Kinney, Editor of Artillery
For more information on all of the artist’s exhibition see: For a list of artists see: https://habitatcalifornia.net/artists/

Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education 5504 Crestridge Rd., Rancho Palos Verdes, CA pvartcenter.org

Palos Verdes Art Center is pleased to announce HABITAT CALIFORNIA: Flora & Fauna, an invitational and juried exhibition featuring the plants and wildlife of California in the shifting ecosystems they inhabit. The exhibition presents over 100 works of art in wide-ranging styles and media, including plein air landscape paintings, botanical drawings, and sculpture as well as installation art, video, film, and internet art. Topics include:

• Continuing the California Landscape and California Impressionist traditions
• The intersections of urban, suburban, and wildlife habitats
• The effects of climate change on wildlife and botanical habitat and species
• Explorations in new media featuring California flora and fauna and their ecosystems.

Contemporary works are accompanied by loans from private collections of 18th and 19th-century botanical prints and ornithologies as well as landscapes by noted early California artists, including William Wendt, Charles Reiffel, Edgar Payne, Clark Hobart, Theodore Robinson, and Ansel Adams.

Juror: Tulsa Kinney is the editor and co-founder of Artillery, a contemporary art magazine based in Los Angeles established in 2006. She received her MFA at USC in 1988 and has been in numerous solo and group art exhibitions for over two decades. Tulsa started writing about 20 years ago and her articles have been published in the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly. She continues to write about art and stay deeply immersed in the contemporary art world