Frances Stark

Frances Stark
Born	1967 (age 49–50) Newport Beach, California
Nationality	American
Known for	Art, performance, video, writing
Notable work	My Best Thing

Frances Stark (born 1967) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer, whose work centers on the use and meaning of language, and the translation of this process into the creative act. She often works with carbon paper to hand-trace letters, words, and sentences from classic works by Emily Dickinson, Goethe, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, and others to explore the voices and interior states of writers. She uses the hand-traced words. often in repetition, as visual motifs in drawings and collage compositions that reference a subject, mood, or another discipline, such as music, architecture, or philosophy. Her work had been exhibited internationally, including the 2008 Whitney Biennial, the Performa 11 biennial, and the 54th Venice Biennale. Stark is also a writer of prose and poetry that has been published in various magazines, catalogues, and books.

Born in 1967 in Newport Beach, California, Frances Stark is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She graduated from San Francisco State University in 1991 with a BA in Humanities, and from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1993 with a MFA. was formerly an Assistant Professor at University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts.

She is represented by Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Berlin and Cologne, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York, greengrassi gallery in London, and Marc Foxx Gallery in Los Angeles. Her artworks are included in public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, di Rosa, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, and Fonds Regional d'art Contemporain, Champagne-Ardenne.

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