I designed these tote bags especially for an art show in Bangkok, Thailand called "FREESIZE". Made from durable white Thai canvas, each bag is screen-printed and sewn by hand. Created with 7 screens, and printed on both sides of bag. Now available in the SHOP section:
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:
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 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:
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
Here is a 2008 article in Artlurker.com
A new piece commissioned for the artist Carlos Betancourt
Twirling Spectrum / 12" x 12" / hand-cut cardstock paper / 2010
Inside view of "Tunnel Vision", a sculpture in my NYC solo show in Summer 2009 at LmakProjects:
Tunnel Vision Inside View from Jen Stark on Vimeo.
"Tunnel Vision" / 20"x25"x25" / acrylic paint, wood, motor, mirrors, light / 2009
I met a new friend in Key Largo this New Years:
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)
I was just asked to do an interview and guest postings on ItsNiceThat.com Fun stuff....click on the image and take a look!
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
Here is a new commissioned piece I just finished:
Plasmascopic / 36" x 19" x 3" / colored paper on wood / 2009
The ArtInfo section of Modern Painters magazine asked me to choose an artist and ask them 5 questions. I interviewed my friend who does amazing work, artist Frances Trombly. HERE IS THE INTERVIEW
My work made a quick appearance in XLR8R Magazine-August 2009:
My work is in a new book, "Perfect Paper" published by Page One:
Here is a new drawing I just finished:
"High on Constellation" / 26" x 40" / felt-tip pen on paper / 2009
Here is a new wood piece I made for a Miami group show at Snitzer Gallery. It is based on the idea of a reciprocal -how a multiplicative inverse of 2 can become 1.
"Reciprocal" / 40"x40"x7" / varnished acrylic on wood / 2009
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
WLRN (A local South Florida Station) did an interview with me for their ArtStreet section in November. Take a look:
