During the DADARHEA Show at O.H.W.O.W. on Friday August 13th, Alvaro Ilizarbe (AKA Freegums), Sam Borkson (FriendsWithYou) and I created 3 magical creatures and did a live performance during the opening. We blew poppers, feathers, and glitter out of our costumes and pranced around ringing bells. Here are a few photos.
Alvaro Ilizarbe (left), Jen Stark (center) and Sam Borkson (right)
My newest sculpture “The Highest Point” is going to be in the Art Basel fair in Switzerland from June 16-20th in Ping-Pong Gallery’s booth. Check it out if you’re in town.
“The Highest Point” / 36″ x 27″ x 2.5″ / acid-free colored and metallic paper on wood / 2010
This past Monday night from 7-9pm, our friend Gio asked us to host our own call in pirate-style radio session for her show “Miami Time” on WVUM (the local UM station). Alvaro Ilizarbe (FREEGUMS) and I invited callers to call in live as they told us about their dogs, girl problems, how to squeeze owls, and read bible scriptures. All while we played songs from Ethiopia, to Miami Bass, to outer space! It was a wild and crazy time! Listen to the whole show here:
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Check out Gio’s website Miami Time & the WVUM website.
My work will be in a 2-person show on May 14, 2010 in Miami at Carol Jazzar’s. It should be an amazing show, so if you’re in Miami, come out! Jen Stark & Rory Macarthur: Opening Friday, May 14 from 7-11 pm at Carol Jazzar’s.
Carol Jazzar is pleased to present JEN STARK / RORY MACARTHUR, a two person exhibition of new three-dimensional work.
Miami based Jen Stark’s vibrant oeuvre of the last few years comes full circle here with works that pay homage to her own prolific trajectory. A recessed paper hole in the wall reminiscent of a seminal early work sets the tone for a reflective collection of characteristically mystifying sculptures. Complex gradients and intricate, mingling lattices of color and geometry push the envelope of the artist’s own expectations and explode the ocular sense. A freestanding zig-zag form that invites viewers to encompass it, beguiled by its illusionistic surface further enforces the 360 degree quality to this offering.
Rory MacArthur’s series is an ambitious investigation into what the artist perceives as the limitless possibilities of non-representational painting. Borne of voluminous, fastidious preparatory drawings, many of which are realized as final works, these candied beauties, all pink, green and melted, exemplify a thoroughness of approach that is important to emphasize in light of their effortless appearances. From an elaborate but direct process involving the repeated carving, sanding and sealing of multiple layers of Styrofoam, the painting, applied to its labor intensive substrata with both roller and air, enamels its topographic playground like a seductive skin, undermining and underlining the inherent physicality.
With shared concerns, exhaustive methodologies and a penchant to produce catalysts for a kind of spiritual reverie through meditation and psychedelic awe, these artists and their occasionally overwhelming creations seem to tease magic from thin air, making work that floats and pulsates as if supplied by an unseen force. Each piece exacting a kind of visual dance with illusionistic qualities of surface and paint, our privilege is not so much to witness, as it is to participate.
158 NW 91st Street • Miami, Florida 33150 • P 305 490 6906
Here is a video of the “FREESIZE” Bangkok show by Op Sudasna. It shows the space, interviews with the artists, and the opening. He edited down hours and hours of film into this great piece! Take a look:
Here are some photos from the Bangkok trip we just came back from last week. The ‘Free Size’ show went great. Thanks to Logan, Sandy and Leo for showing us an amazing time.
Check out the FREE SIZE blog for more photos: http://freesizeart.blogspot.com/
I will be in a group show near Bangkok, Thailand (Bang Khun Thian) March 13. Let your friends know!
To produce the exhibition FREE SIZE artists Jen Stark, Juan Angel Chavez, P7, and Alvaro ‘Freegums’ Ilizarbe, will work for one week in the Sinudom Silk Screen factory creating works of art.
By bringing these contemporary artists into a global manufacturing hub, the realms of production and creation will exist in a simultaneous space, transforming this modest factory into an active generator of creative capital. “free size” encourages viewers to see industrial spaces as incubators for creative thought and social evolution.
Exhibition is presented by
APEXart – New York City, NY
Pre-Party INFO (March 11th)
Exhibition INFO (March 13th)
The exhibition will be located at: Show runs: March 13 – April 17th, 2010
Sinudom Silk Screen Factory Opening Reception: March 13th 2-6PM
35/21 Moo 1, Sakaegnam Road Participating artists will be in attendance.
Samaedam, Bang Khun Thian
March 13 there will be a free shuttle bus from Bangkok to Bang Khun Thain (a close smaller town where the opening will take place)
I will be exhibiting in a solo booth at SCOPE Fair in Miami with Carol Jazzar Gallery (during Art Basel).
BOOTH #300
Located at Soho Studio / 2136 1st Avenue (Entrance @ NW 21st Street)
If you’re around the San Francisco area on Friday Oct 16, stop by Medicine Agency Gallery for a solo show by my boyfriend, Alvaro Ilizarbe of Freegums. It should be amazing.
ABRACADABRA
A solo show by Alvaro Ilizarbe
Friday Oct 16 at 7pm at Medicine Agency Gallery
1262 Mason Street (corner of Mason & Jackson Street)
San Francisco
My animation “Streaming Gradient” will be exhibited in a new show at MOCA North Miami opening March 25. Highlighting pivotal works by artists who broke boundaries in film-making, Abstract Cinema & Technology explores how technological innovations from the 1920s to the present provided new means for artists to create abstract moving images.
The exhibition features works by Jose Alvarez, Cory Arcangel, Jordan Belson, Jeremy Blake, Mary Ellen Bute, Marcel Duchamp, Oskar Fischinger, Jiae Hwang and Nicolas Raftis III, Nam June Paik, Len Lye, Kevin Medal, Bruce Nauman, C.E.B. Reas, Hans Richter, Harry Smith, Jen Stark, Jennifer Steinkamp, Stan VanDerBeek, and James Whitney.
Check out details at the website: MOCA
Girl’s Club Collection: “Under the Influence”
Opening Wednesday Oct. 22 from 7-10pm
On view through Sept. 30, 2009
117 NE 2nd St
Ft Lauderdale, Fl 33301
info@girlsclubcollection.org
#954 828 9151
Right now I’m in a group show at Johansson Projects, featuring works by:
Jen Stark, Anna Fidler and Jana Flynn
Showing May 15th – July 5th 2008
Go by and take a look if you’re in the San Francisco area!
“Feel Better Longer” / “Much – Much”
Jason Zimmerman and Jen Stark
at Civilian Art Projects in D.C.
Opening: Friday May 9, 2008, 7-9pm
May 9 – June 14, 2008
Exhibition Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 2 to 6pm and by appointment
406 7th Street NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC 20004
#(202) 347-0022
