The Church To Host Insight Sunday with Monica Banks

The Church in Sag Harbor will host artist Monica Banks at its next Insight Sunday program. In her talk on Sunday, August 17, at noon, Banks will offer an inside look at the process and inspiration behind her work “Restless Things,” which is included in “The Ark” exhibition currently on view at The Church.

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.”

Banks was born in New York City and lives and works in East Hampton. 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.

She has also exhibited at the New Britain Museum of American Art, White Box, Spring Break Art Fair, the Heckscher Museum of Art, the Carriage House at Islip Art Museum, the Center for Architecture, the Arkell Museum, the Masur Museum, The Church and other venues. She created “Faces: Times Square,” a block-long sculpture that stood in Times Square from 1996 to 2009, for which she won an award from The Public Design Commission of the City of New York. She has been exhibiting sculpture and doing site-specific installations since 1989.

Tickets for Insight Sunday with Monica Banks are $10 (free with RSVP for members) at thechurchsagharbor.org. The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor.