Frances Stark

Available Work


At the Same Time (Golden Grass), 2003
Carbon transfer, gouache, 24ct gold leaf, imitation gold leaf on casein panel
20” x 16”



Stephen Malkmus/Aphex Twin, 1997
Carbon on paper
30" x 22.5"

Frances Stark, who is also a writer and poet, often uses words or phrases as visual motifs in her compositions. Through the artist’s tracery, a line of text borrowed from a novel, poem or even a pop song will lead the viewer through the experiences that are the hallmark of her work: Words become an abstract design through repeated hand-tracing, while they cognitively but subtly introduce a subject, mood, and often the context of another discipline such as music, architecture, philosophy.

Frances Stark has achieved broad recognition through many one-person gallery presentations in San Francisco, New York, London, Cologne and Los Angeles, and through numerous group shows mounted internationally. In 2002, the UCLA Hammer Museum presented the exhibition “The Unspeakable Compromiseof the Portable Work of Art” featuring 16 artworks produced over a 5-year period. The works were shown with texts by the artist; both addressed the idea of mutable meaning and context.

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