Tea with Amanda

Learn more about the artist’s thesis and process.
* Saturday, October 7, 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Place Setting Exhibition Dates :
* October 3 – December 31

Join Poet and the Bench for the West Coast Premier of multimedia artist Amanda Rowan’s provocative Place Setting and Ritual self-portrait images and still lifes in conjunction with her short film Place Setting; the latter was selected for inclusion in the 46th Mill Valley Film Festival happening now.

Highly performative, Rowan’s work tells timeless stories of domesticity through a cinematic lens. Within the film Place Setting, she plays a solitary housewife who creates and destroys a glamorous 1970s-style dinner party through retro gestures.

The film is a sculptural and performance piece that is at once a celebration of matriarchy and the art and flair of the hostess; while simultaneously eluding to collective generational trauma through its deconstruction.

Place Setting premiers at the 46th Mill Valley Film Festival

• Monday, October 9, at 8:00 pm at the Rafael 3 (we are attending and the artist will be speaking)
• Tuesday, October 10, at 2:00 pm at the Rafael 3

Buy tickets to Place Setting:  Mill Valley Film Festival

“Unquestionably maximalist, Rowan’s “Ritual” pieces are styled with a collector’s eye.”

Raised in Mill Valley, this is Amanda’s return to her hometown with a narrative of the moment.

The Place Setting film and photographs take the notion of the forgotten and exploited females of the past, and the iconography associated with them, as a way to respond to contemporary mores– asking in what ways is depicting and performing the feminine a constraint and in what ways is it power?