Frances Stark
1967–

Introduction

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 into the creative act. She often works with carbon paper to hand-trace letters, words, and sentences from classic works by Emily Dickinson, Goethe, Henry Miller, Samuel Beckett, and others to explore the voices and interior states of writers. She uses these hand-traced words, often in repetition, as visual motifs in drawings and mixed media works that reference a subject, mood, or another discipline such as music, architecture, or philosophy.

Wikidata identifier

Q16197269

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Country of birth

United States

Roles

Artist, collagist, conceptual artist, painter, photographer, video artist, writer

ULAN identifier

500294304

Names

Frances Stark

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