Frances Stark

Professions :

Visual Artist

Born :

1967

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.

fantasy dream art

Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river that everyone is pouring things into. As a poet, as a thinker, as an artist, I believe there's another way to experience the world, and another way to experience time.It can't all just be public relations and branding; it's about making meaning with signs around you.

artist rivers believe

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

storytelling voice way

My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

dream art school

My Instagram has personal things, like pictures of my home, but generally it's my voice, and that's a public thing. Using my Instagram posts in my art is not about taking my personal Instagram and making it public; it's about understanding and challenging the notion of these free platforms that encourage self-promotion and understanding what they are technically and culturally.

self home art

The personal is the political. That's an old tagline. by Frances Stark

The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

taglines political

'm very conscious about how the viewing situation [of the Biennale] creates a situation for the viewer who feels pressured. I don't really have any concept of who looks at my work online. I don't think it's viewed that much online.

online looks thinking

As the art world changes, artists have more and more responsibility. You don't have a lot of luxury to be super secluded.

luxury responsibility art

I'm making art and making decisions and editing things. I don't live my life to broadcast it into the art world; I don't see it as my life on the stage.

decision editing art

I think this is pretty clear, but maybe not to everybody: Despite the fact that the work is personal or taken from life, it's not about me telling my personal story.

taken stories thinking

Because I'm always working on something, I'm always thinking. by Frances Stark

Because I'm always working on something, I'm always thinking.

always-thinking always-working thinking

That's just the way I end up making meaning from the direct material in my life - I think what makes it accessible is the desire to communicate, more than anything. It does make it accessible, but that's not what motivates me.

doe desire thinking

I understand - and often make fun of - the desire to run to the wall text before running to the painting.

wall running fun

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