Frances Stark 1991-2015 - Singerman Howard

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Résumé :
This generously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive overview of the work of the Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist Frances Stark. Frances Stark deftly deploys text, image, and literary sources in her works (drawing, collage, painting, and video) that reflect on her roles as artist, mother, woman, and teacher. UH-OH : Frances Stark 1991-2015 provides a close reading of Stark's output, revealing an abundance of themes threaded through the work, including writing, procrastination, the banality of life, failure, success, pride, self-doubt, motherhood, pedagogy, institutional critique, class, music, literature, poetry, philosophy, art, sadness, and relationships. Throughout her career she has experimented with alternative modes of expression, as in her critically acclaimed video My Best Thing . her PowerPoint work Structures that fit my opening (and other parts considered in relation to their whole) . and the performance Put a Song in Your Thing. Companion to an exhibition that documents Stark's 25-year career, this book contains over 125 reproductions of Stark's provocative and self-referential works that speak to the complexities of daily life. Included are full-page images and numerous details that allow an intimate appreciation of the highly tactile and complex nature of Stark's art, along with two newly commissioned essays and a collection of brief reflections by a variety of prominent artists, writers, and fans. This book is the definitive resource on Stark's accomplished, varied, and affecting body of work.