Category Archives: exhibitions
My Best Thing screening in Los Angeles
Marc Foxx Gallery is very happy to present this new work currently on view in ILLUMInations at the Venice Biennale My Best Thing by Frances Stark Friday June 17, 2011, 6–9 pm We will begin screening the video in … Continue reading
I’VE HAD IT AND A HALF
“What will say, finally, when you have seen the whole of all the parts as well as the parts of all the parts?”* FRANCES STARK PERFORMS I’VE HAD IT AND A HALF Due to the adult themes of … Continue reading
I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing
Frances Stark’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1993) included in the Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing. MOMA exhibition page New York Times review
All Of This And Nothing video
Hammer Museum
Houseguest review
Although Boston may now be host to the narrative of Frances Stark’s work, currently the subject of a 20-year retrospective at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center, it is her hometown of Los Angeles that has the opportunity to hearken a … Continue reading
Art in America feature by Nancy Princenthal
The Internet Age is widely understood as the apogee of image culture, but the medium in which we swim, buoyed by waves of chat, posts and tweets, seems increasingly to be the written word. Or so it appears in the … Continue reading
All of this and nothing
Frances will have two new works in the upcoming Hammer Invitational. The show opens on January 30 and runs until April 24, 2011. The sixth in the series of Hammer Invitationals, All of this and nothing will present the work … Continue reading
L.A. Times article
Excerpt from an article by Leah Ollman: Frances Stark’s right arm is as good a place as any to begin to consider what drives the artist and writer. She sports two tattoos there, one an ornate foliate pattern based on … Continue reading
“An artist who labels herself”
Frances Stark is obsessed with something akin to the problem we all face every time we set about achieving anything: How to filter out distractions, white noise, and the marginalia of the mind. How to make thoughts cohere. [...] An … Continue reading
Artforum preview of MIT show
The title of Frances Stark’s first US museum survey, “This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind,” not only confirms the Los Angeles–based artist’s ongoing investment in language but also gamely foregrounds … Continue reading
MIT discussion
MIT has made available the discussion between Frances Stark and João Ribas, curator of MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. Frances Stark: This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind, is the first … Continue reading
MIT exhibition review
Frances Stark tackles the riddles of the creative process The creative genius of the artist is one of our society’s best loved myths: Michelangelo, enmeshed in his own angst-ridden, manic brilliance, carving “David,” Monet splashing color across a canvas. But … Continue reading
Artforum Museum Preview
The title of Frances Stark’s first US museum survey, “This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind,” not only confirms the Los Angeles–based artist’s ongoing investment in language but also gamely foregrounds … Continue reading
Frances Stark survey at the MIT List Visual Arts Center
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to present Frances Stark: This could become a gimick [sic] or an honest articulation of the workings of the mind, the first U.S. museum survey of the work of Los Angeles artist … Continue reading