EXHIBITION: Frances Stark at the Hammer Museum
“UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015″
Curated by Ali Subotnick, curator, with Emily Gonzalez-Jarrett, curatorial associate
Until January 24, 2016
@ the HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES
“Magnificent Artist served by a smart curatorial tour” by BCh
The Hammer blossoms right now, two major exhibitions at the same time. First one is that terrific/subtle/intriguing retrospective for a stunning body of work by Frances Stark.
Frances Stark posture is clearly the one of a poet. She excerpts words or ideas from their initial context and re-contextualize them in video, or on delicate paper rice, or whatever found item.
If Stark’s world is intriguing and could be sometimes closed to the viewer’s comprehension, she has the courtesy to open slightly some windows by putting little clues of understanding.
The exhibition will track her 25-year career from early carbon drawings to intricate collages and mixed-media paintings to the more recent work, which includes PowerPoint slide shows, video, performance, and Instagram photographs. Words and images are at the heart of her practice, and like a lyricist, Stark employs both to create provocative and self-reflexive works that pose universal questions.
TRAILER:
Trailer for UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015 from Hammer Museum on Vimeo.
“Frances Stark is one of the most dynamic and challenging artists of her time —and a bit of a hometown hero. She is an ‘artist’s artist’ who is critically accomplished but whose work is not yet widely known outside of the gallery and museum communities,” said Ann Philbin, Director, Hammer Museum. “She is so deserving and we are honored to be presenting this survey to a larger public audience.”
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