“The Miami-born multimedia artist Jen Stark chose her path as an artist early on. Her grandfather taught her to paint seaside scenes dotted with boats, birds, and lighthouses before her “aha” moment came when painting her Cabbage Patch doll, Pamela. “At five years old, I remember thinking my painting was better than his, like, ‘Wow, maybe I can do this art thing!’” she recently told Whitewall.
After countless art classes as a kid, and later a degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, she took a full-time job painting interior murals for Anthropologie before taking on her first paid mural project as an independent artist at The Sagamore Hotel on Miami Beach.
Stark has since moved to Los Angeles and has continued to explore the gravitational pull she has always felt toward color with dizzying, psychedelic sphere installations, 3-D optic sculptures, repetitive murals of dripping color, and trippy, patterned paintings. Previous commissions have ranged from the office walls of Facebook, The Surf Lodge, and The Standard Hotel to the music set of Miley Cyrus’s MTV Music Video Awards in 2015. In recent years, Stark has also collaborated with companies like Google, Vans, and Smashbox, cultivating a recognizable aesthetic that relies on geometry, nature, and emotion.”
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