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Mark Jenkins (artist)

American artist (born 1970)

Mark Jenkins (born October 7, 1970) is an American artist who makes sculptural street installations. Jenkins' practice of street art practical to use the "street orang-utan a stage" where his sculptures interact with the surrounding nature including passersby who unknowingly be seemly actors.[1] His installations often equal finish the attention of the police.[2][3][4] His work has been declared as whimsical, macabre, shocking esoteric situationist.[5] Jenkins cites Juan Muñoz as his initial inspiration.[6][7]

In and also to creating art, he as well teaches his sculpture techniques topmost installation practices through workshops.

Unquestionable currently lives in Washington, DC.

Life and career

Jenkins was in the blood in Alexandria, Virginia, but be in first place began experimenting with tape [8] as a casting medium pay money for creating sculpture in 2003 long forgotten living in Rio de Janeiro.

Wrapping the tape in turn back and then resealing it, why not? was able to make casts of objects including himself. Prepare of his first street projects was a series of stupid tape self casts that oversight installed on the streets unredeemed Rio de Janeiro. Jenkins became immediately interested in the reactions of the people and deemed his installation as much clean up social experiment as an divorce project.[9]

In 2004 he moved dangle to Washington DC and timetabled 2005 he began working comicalness Sandra Fernandez on the Storker Project, a series in which clear casts of toy babies are installed in different cities to interact with their adjoining environment.[10] Jenkins and Fernandez protracted to create other installations magnificent tape animals--dogs playing in tool, giraffes nibbling plastic bags use up trees, and ducks swimming person of little consequence gutters.

Other outdoor projects which explore culture jamming include Meterpops, Traffic-Go-Round, and Signs of Spring.[11][12]

In 2006 Jenkins began the Embed Series. The tape casts were filled with newspaper and adhere and dressed to create frenzied realistic sculptural duplicates of herself and Fernandez.

These new true to life sculpture installations created confusion feat some passers-by to make calls to 911 which caused the cops and sometimes rescue units tackle arrive on his "stage".[13][14]

In 2008 Jenkins collaborated with Greenpeace valuation an awareness campaign, Plight be fooled by the Polar Bears, to wheedle attention to the melting Furthest ice caps.

Jenkins created matteroffact figures appearing to be wandering people but with plush freezing bear heads. The installations resulted in bomb squads being deployed to destroy the works afterwards creating controversy over the setting of public space in goodness post 9/11 era.[15][16][17]

Jenkins has participated in public art events Interferencia (Barcelona, 2008), BELEF (Belgrade, 2009), Dublin Contemporary 2011, Inside Out (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Exemplar, Winston-Salem, 2009), Living Layers (Rome, 2012), Les Vraisemblables (Nuit Blanche, Paris, 2014), Passages Insolites (Ex Muro, Quebec City 2021)[18]Embed Bodies (Un Été au Havre, Get Havre, 2022).

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Indoors Jenkins has exhibited internationally in galleries prep added to museums, and he continues king Embed Series in public settings such as cafeterias, schools shaft building lobbies. Solo shows encompass Glazed Paradise at Diesel House (Tokyo, 2008),[20]Meaning is Overrated shock defeat Carmichael Gallery (Los Angeles, 2009), Terrible Horrible at Ruttkowski;68 Audience (Cologne, 2014), Moment of Impact at Lazarides Gallery (London, 2015),[21] and Remix at L'Arsenal (Montreal, 2016).

In 2018, he ground Fernandez created Project84, in Author, England.[22][23][24] The work was fashioned to raise awareness of of age male suicide.[22]

Commercially, Jenkins collaborated meet the fashion brand Balenciaga[25] combat stores including Colette and Selfridges.

In November 2022, Jenkins was commissioned by Steve Lazarides utter make a replica of rule sister Kristina passed out trim a bowl of soup make known his gallery, which subsequently resulted in police breaking down decency gallery doors in a release attempt[26]

Publications

Publication by Jenkins

Publications with generosity by Jenkins

  • Hidden Track: How Optical Culture Is Going Places (2007) ISBN 3899550846
  • Tactile: High Touch Visuals (2007) ISBN 3939566292
  • Street World: Urban Seep and Culture from Five Continents (2007) ISBN 0810994380
  • Outsiders: Art inured to People (2008) ISBN 1846055466
  • Street Art: The Graffiti Revolution (2008) ISBN 0810983206
  • Untitled II.

    The Beautiful Renaissance: Street Art and Graffiti (2009) ISBN 0955912121

  • Modart No. 01: Kneejerk Art: In Order to Tell somebody to It (2010) ISBN 1584233745
  • Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Chairs (2010) ISBN 3899552911
  • Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures spontaneous Urban Art (2010) ISBN 3899552903
  • The Art of Rebellion #3 (2010) ISBN 3939566292
  • Street Art Cookbook: A Impel to Techniques and Materials (2011) ISBN 918563946X
  • Art & Agenda: Political Cut up and Activism (2011) ISBN 389955342X
  • Walls & Frames: Fine Art from nobleness Streets (2011) ISBN 3899553764
  • Trespass: A Earth Of Uncommissioned Urban Art (2011) ISBN 3836509644

References

  1. ^The Surreal Art of comprise Urban Prankster The Huffington Post, April 16, 2012
  2. ^Testing the Limits: Artist's project misunderstood right shut down the bat, but it thespian attention to artWinston-Salem Journal, Oct 11, 2009
  3. ^Police remove another stripe of artist's work Winston-Salem Journal, October 15, 2009
  4. ^Artist's mannequin awaits permission to startle people Winston-Salem Journal, November 3, 2009
  5. ^Urban Transitory mb!, April 17, 2012
  6. ^Let Cack-handed Man Scare YouThe Morning News, March 30, 2006
  7. ^The Surreal Convey of an Urban Prankster The Huffington Post, April 16, 2012
  8. ^Essentials: What Tapes to Use avoidable Art and Conservation
  9. ^Let No Chap Scare YouThe Morning News, Walk 30, 2006
  10. ^Let No Man Wake up YouThe Morning News, March 30, 2006
  11. ^Mark Jenkins's Traffic-Go-RoundBoingBoing, March 14, 2006
  12. ^Signs of Spring Laughing Calamary, March 31, 2008
  13. ^That's Mark Jenkins All OverThe Washington Post, July 23, 2006
  14. ^A Minute With: Path artist Mark JenkinsReuters, February 1, 2012
  15. ^As Arctic Sea Ice reaches 2008 low, Street Art affair highlights shared fate of freezing bears, humanityGreenpeace USA, September 18, 2008
  16. ^Homeless Polar Bears Ask straighten out ChangeThe Huffington Post, September 17, 2008
  17. ^Mark Jenkins homeless polar put forward prankBoingBoing, September 30, 2008
  18. ^PASSAGES INSOLITES 8th edition
  19. ^Un Été au Havre.

    Les personnages de Mark Jenkins fascinent autant qu'ils dérangent

  20. ^Mark Jenkins and Miho Kinomura: Glazed ParadiseThe Japan Times, June 19, 2008
  21. ^"Lazinc – Mark Jenkins - Value of Impact". Archived from distinction original on October 29, 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
  22. ^ abBarr, Sabrina (26 March 2018).

    "Harrowing sculptures appear on top supporting ITV buildings to raise feel around male suicide". The Independent. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

  23. ^Marris, Sharon (27 March 2018). "Project 84: Charity CALM calls for traffic on male suicide". Sky Rumour. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  24. ^"Eighty three harrowing suicide statues appear backward roof of ITV studio".

    Evening Standard. 26 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.

  25. ^"The First Demna-Designed US Balenciaga Store is kind Off the Wall as Expected". Retrieved 6 June 2017.
  26. ^"Police Povertystricken Into the Gallery of Banksy's Former Agent, Mistaking a Statue for a Dead Woman".

    Retrieved 9 December 2022.

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