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General Ticket: $10
Members: Free, RSVP Required
Monica Banks invites you to an inside look at the process and inspiration behind her work Restless Things, 2024, which is included in The Ark. Drawn to contrast and dissonance, Banks’s porcelain sculptures of dead birds and insects reference the delicate beauty and tragedy found in birds and small winged creatures. For Banks, “birds are everything,” and her work contains a deep sense of spirituality and hope that she considers “essential in all of us corporeal beings.” Join us for an intriguing discussion followed by a Q&A and leave with insight into the world of birds and winged things, as well as the artist’s unique approach to the traditional technique of porcelain.
To explore Bank’s work stop by during our exhibition hours Thursday-Monday, 11 AM – 5 PM. More information about The Ark can be found by visiting our exhibition page here. Our exhibition is free and open to the public, no RSVP is necessary.
ABOUT MONICA BANKS
Monica Banks was born in New York City and lives and works in East Hampton NY. Her work is held in the permanent collections of The Parrish Art Museum, The University Museum of Contemporary Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, The Islip Art Museum, LongHouse Reserve, The Leiber Collection, NYC Department of Transportation, Peter Marino Art Foundation, Daura Gallery of Lynchburg College, and the Catherine Konner Sculpture Park. In addition to the public collections above, he has exhibited at the New Britain Museum of American Art, White Box in NYC, Spring Break Art Fair NYC, The Heckscher Museum of Art, The Carriage House at Islip Art Museum, The Center for Architecture in NYC, The Arkell Museum in Cahajoharie NY, The Masur Museum in Monroe LA, The Church in Sag Harbor NY, and other venues. She created "Faces: Times Square,” a block-long sculpture which stood in Times Square from 1996-2009, for which she won an award from The Public Design Commission of the City of New York. Her permanent public works are located in the Bronx, Binghamton NY, and Charlotte NC. She has been exhibiting sculpture and doing site-specific installations since 1989.