Monet Clark

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

Artist Exploring Illness/Disability: Monet Clark, Juli Watson

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“The subtitle of Clark’s show California Girl (A Retrospective Debut) can be read as a symptom of the human condition. Our identities are made up of a retrospective lineage of past experiences, language and memories which our ever-changing physical body constantly debuts in the present moment.”–Hyperallergic

The Fine Line Between Sexy and Sickness, —Hyperallergic, Peter Dobey

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“Tall & thin Clark easily embodies the current beauty ideal, which is part of what makes it so effective when she ruptures the continuity of the illusion which she has created…she indicts the viewer for objectifying her, but desire is a double edged sword as she is complicit in this objectification.”–Hyperallergic 

Monet Clark: California Girl at Krowswork

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“…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

Monet Clark: California Girl at Krowswork, Stretcher, Dale Hoyt

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“…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