Mark Jenkins

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Mark Jenkins (b. 1970 in Fairfax, Virginia ) is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using box sealing tape. His work has been featured in various publications including Time, The Washington Post, Reuters, The Independent and on the street art blog Wooster Collective. He has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe, Japan and Brazil and is represented by various galleries including Lazarides Gallery in London. He maintains the Website tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits.

Mark Jenkins said the following about the illegal aspects of street art during an interview with art critic Brian Sherwin, "There is opposition, and risk, but I think that just shows that street art is the sort of frontier where the leading edge really does have to chew through the ice. And it's good for people to remember public space is a battleground, with the government, advertisers and artists all mixing and mashing, and even now the strange cross-pollination taking place as street artists sometimes become brands, and brands camouflaging as street art creating complex hybrids or impersonators. I think it's understanding the strangeness of the playing field where you'll realize that painting street artists, writers, as the bad guys is a shallow view. As for the old bronzes, I really don't see them as part of what's going on in the dialogue unless addressed by a new intervention. “[1]

He currently lives in Washington, DC.

Contents

[edit] Street Installations (by Project)

Embed by Mark Jenkins
Meterpops

Tape Men (2003--)
Jenkins first street series in which casts made from his body using clear packing tape were installed in city streets in Rio de Janeiro and later Washington DC.[2]

Storker Project (2005--)
In this ongoing project tape babies are "dropped" in various outdoor environments in different cities as part of a "species propagation movement." To date there have been over 100 babies installed.[3]

Embed Series (2006--)
In this series, Jenkins dresses his life size tape casts in clothing to create realistic sculptures which he installs in various positions in urban environments—stuck into traffic cones, trash bags, cans, etc. He documents the reaction of the people who pass by them with video. The most watched of these videos features a figure sculpture positioned to create an illusion that it is sticking its head into a wall.[4]

Meterpops (2005)
The Meterpop installation involved putting transparent lollipop heads onto parking meters in Washington DC on Independence Avenue (outside the Department of Energy).[5]

Traffic-Go-Round (2007)
The "traffic-go-round" project converted a traffic circle (Thomas Circle, Washington DC) into a merry-go-round using horses made of tape mounted on the lampposts around the circle. The horses were faced the opposite flow of traffic to create for riders the illusion that the horses were moving past them.

Jesus 2.0 (2006)
Jesus 2.0 was a collaboration between Mark Jenkins and the Graffiti Research Lab. Two clear tape sculptures of a child in crucifixion position were fitted with LED Throwies and then installed on a lampposts in New York City.[6]

[edit] Shows

  • Glazed Paradise, Diesel Gallery, Tokyo (Solo) 2008
  • Outsiders, Lazarides Gallery, London (Group) 2008
  • Under the Rainbow, Inbetween Gallery, Malmö (Solo/Installation) 2008
  • Fresh Air Smells Funny, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück Group) 2008
  • Santa's Ghetto, Bethlehem (Group) 2007
  • Polar Christ, Step, Warsaw (Solo/Installation) 2007
  • A Conquista Do Espaço, São Paulo (Group) 2007
  • Reciclarte, Lisbon (Group) 2007
  • Lazarides Gallery Outcasts, London (Solo) 2007
  • Eyebeam Open City, NYC (Group) 2007
  • BLK/MRKT Gallery BMG Artist's Annual, LA (Group) 2007
  • Santa's Ghetto, London (Group) 2006
  • Absolut Invasion, Rotterdam (Group) 2006
  • Fraser Gallery, Storker, Washington DC (Solo) 2005
  • Haus Arte, Rio, Brazil (Group) 2003

[edit] Bibliography (Book Features)

[edit] References

  1. ^ myartspace>blog: Art Space Talk: Mark Jenkins
  2. ^ Tape Sculpture: Street Installations
  3. ^ Mark Jenkins: Storker Project
  4. ^ Mark Jenkins: Embed
  5. ^ Mark Jenkins: Meterpops
  6. ^ Mark Jenkins: Jesus 2.0

[edit] External links

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