Maeve D'Arcy's work is an ongoing investigation of time and space. Her repetitive mark making represents real time in seconds, minutes and hours as well as the less tangible notion of time in the form of memories and storytelling. The dots, lines, and shapes offer a meditation on flashbacks, daydreams, or nightmares and represent parts of a whole, snippets of something larger, different moods, chapters, and vignettes. The work is intimate and autobiographical, a collection of daily observations and exclamations.
Maeve D'Arcy earned her MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, London , and has exhibited in London, Ireland and in New York at Topaz Arts, Lazy Susan Gallery and Trestle Gallery among other spaces. Her residencies include Yaddo, Jentel, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Saltonstall.
All You Can Eat, Monica Banks combines new ceramic vessels and utensils with earlier cakes and other surprising elements made over the years — such as porcelain portraits of dead birds, houses, and pig hands. Her new porcelain pieces focus on tableware--mugs, plates, forks, and coffee pots— that explore the subversive power of domesticity. This series began when she started adding self-defeating slogans (e.g., "you ruin everything," "no one cares," "why are you so...") to pretty mugs that could not successfully hold liquids. This twist on inspirational mugs and souvenirs inspired her to incorporate flower petals, tattoos, slugs, eyes, teeth, stitched flesh, and other incongruous motifs into the tableware.
In combining these vessels and utensils with earlier works, she is attempting to evoke our daily experiences of celebration and despair, introspection and confrontation in table settings.
Banks has exhibited at White Box, Spring Break Art Fair, The Heckscher Museum of Art, The Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum, The Parrish Art Museum, The New Britain Museum of American Art, The Center for Architecture in New York City, and other venues. She created "Faces: Times Square,” a block-long sculpture which stood in Times Square from 1996-2009. The artist lives and works in East Hampton.
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