Miami Herald "20 under 40"

The Miami Herald just came out with a new article featuring 20 creative South Floridians under 40 years old. Each person was nominated by the community, and I made the cut! Here is an online link to all the artists selected, and an easier to read online article on myself HERE.

Miami Master Mind Award Winner

I just found out I won a Miami New Times Master Mind Award out of 4 lucky Miamians! The other winners were: Susan Lee Chun, Borscht Film Festival, and Little Stage Theater. Here is an article they wrote before announcing the winners: Picture 24

This is the second in a series of articles profiling the seven finalists for the New Times MasterMind Awards, which will be presented to four local artists during Artopia at the Freedom Tower February 11. A great Cuban percussionist was once asked why he shook a maraca over and over again for a recording when he could simply do it once and loop the sound. Because, he answered, it sounds different every time. That reminds us of the obsessive, time-consuming process that artist Jen Stark uses to create the seemingly infinite patterns on paper that have drawn the attention of the local art world.

Instead of plotting the works on a computer, the native Miamian takes colorful paper, cuts it, and glues the pieces together. The result are multicolored works that replicate infinity and echo the patterns found in nature.

Why paper? "The fact that it's so common and universal," Stark says. "People see it on a daily basis."

And why the obsessive patterns? According to Stark, they were inspired by the anatomical cross sections pictured in the medical textbooks her sister, a doctor, brought home.

It takes Stark a couple of weeks to create one small work: "It's pretty crazy," she says. "It's meditative."

Stark, who also makes animated films using paper she moves just a hair before clicking each frame, discovered the promise of paper while studying abroad in France. After graduating from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2006, she decided to return home, where she was an alum of New World.

"I like what was happening to the Miami art scene," she says. "I decided to come back. I felt I always had art contacts in Maimi. I felt Miami was more promising."

To makes ends meet, Stark worked for Anthropologie, a hip, high-end clothing chain, where she created "art walls" based on patterns. She also cleaned artwork for a luxury hotel before going out on her own. "I wanted to do my own thing," she says.

She been selling her works to local collectors, and many of her pieces are part of the West Collection in Pennsylvania.

To view Stark's work, visit jenstark.com

XLR8R

My work made a quick appearance in XLR8R Magazine-August 2009: XLR8R-Cover-Summer2009-lores

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WLRN Interview

WLRN (A local South Florida Station) did an interview with me for their ArtStreet section in November. Take a look:

Art Lurker.com

Take a look at some new press of my work in the Civilian Art show on ArtLurker.com (Its a new Miami based contemporary art newsletter.)

Here is a peak of a new piece in the Civilian Art D.C. show:

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Wallpaper

Here is a feature in the January 2008 edition of Wallpaper magazine: Wallpaper Magazine

take a look

Indian Magazine

My work was unknowingly featured in an Indian Magazine: Indian Magazine

...thanks to Jeff Rutzky for the finding the image

Translation of the page:

"ART OF COLOURS

Sun rising from the veils of clouds... Breeze from the sea tickling our cheeks... Sweet sound of the nightingale form the tree...

These are the events that can inspire an idea into any artist. But Jen Stark is inspired from something completely different and cutting the papers this way. Her sister is a doctor. She used to watch the post-mortem of the corpses by her sister in the hospital. It's then the idea of such paper cutting struck her. Since then, she started cutting paper this way. The knife and the paper bowed in front of the art-filled heart of hers. Now she's giving shows of her work in various countries worldwide!"