Category Archives: reviews
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
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
“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 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