Meet artist Monica Banks and go to an expanded set up of her truffles and teacups, watch video of fowl shenanigans, take pleasure in refreshments, and hearken to her dialog about this ongoing undertaking with Leiber Collection Director and Curator Ann Stewart on Sunday, September 23, at 4 PM.
“Watching birds evokes the same ineffable feelings in me as looking at great art or listening to great music. I am honored to join together with my avian friends in my current body of work, ‘Sweet: A Collaboration With Birds,’ currently on view at the Leiber Collection Garden of Friends and other locations until November,” mentioned Banks. “For this project I have created porcelain cakes, plates, and teacups that hold seed and water, and installed them outside on bistro tables, where birds swoop in to feed, drink, socialize and argue, creating a kind of performance piece.”
“Since birds are uninhibited even when people are around, I often leave a camera to film them for hours at a time, and the videos and individual frames become part of the project. This ongoing dialogue with birds is a joyful, exuberant exploration of process and documentation,” Banks continued.
Banks is a Sculptor who was born in New York City, and lives and works in East Hampton. She creates beautiful, candy, conceptual porcelain sculptures of on a regular basis home objects equivalent to truffles, pies, cake plates, tea cups, or pastries, that upon nearer remark have one other shocking layer, an underbelly of the repulsive or the grotesque, a twist that one doesn’t totally understand till up shut and private. She contrasts the candy and the bitter, the gorgeous and the ugly, the enticing and repellant, expressing tormented emotional realities.
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