Frances Ann Stark

That's What She Said: Frances Stark, 1991-2015

This generously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive overview of the work of the Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist Francis Stark. Frances Stark deftly deploys text, image, and literary sources in her drawings, collages, paintings, and video works that reflect on her roles as arti...

Parkett No. 93: Frances Stark, Adrián Villar Rojas, Danh Vô, Valentin Carron

Since 1984, Parkett has been an important source of literature on international contemporary art. Each biannual issue is a collaboration with four artists, in which their work is explored in fully illustrated essays by leading writers and critics. In addition, each artist creates an exclusive limite...

Frances Stark: Collected Writing 1993-2003

Presented in a pseudo-autobiographical style that offers poetic musings to create meandering, off-centered texts, this volume by Frances Stark brings together many of her texts for the first time, including essays on artists and her infamous art + text column. Stark's writing is not specifically loc...

Frances Stark: The Collected Works

The Los Angeles-based artist and art writer Frances Stark has gathered an international cult following for her prolific prose and her smart, honest and intimate artwork. This engaging artist's book is conceived as a companion piece to Stark's Collected Writings 1993-2003, fashioning itself as a grap...

Frances Stark: A Torment of Follies

This exhibition catalogue disguised as an artist's book presents recent work by the Los Angeles artist, writer and all-around favorite, Frances Stark. Taking as her starting point the novel Ferdydurke by the esteemed Polish author Witold Gombrowicz, Stark explores two key aspects of the novel, accor...

Frances Stark: This Could Become a Gimick [sic] or An Honest Articulation of the Workings of the Mind

Artist and writer Frances Stark (born 1967) addresses the doubts and anxieties of creative labor, in self-portraits that she elaborates into cross-disciplinary explorations of language as both subject matter and material. The digressive style that typifies her writing is echoed in the experience of ...

Frances Stark: My Best Thing

This intimate publication focuses on Frances Stark's feature-length video "My Best Thing," a digital video animation that traces the development of two sexual encounters into conversations about film, literature, art, collaboration and subjectivity. Mark Godfrey's essay explores the artist's use of ...

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Frances Stark

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...