Ian F. Svenonius’s “Censorship Now” for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Spread 3 of 8 (pp. 16–17) (the state, like a rampaging mob boss)
<p>Frances Stark, <em>Ian F. Svenonius’s “Censorship Now” for the 2017 Whitney Biennial, Spread 3 of 8 (pp. 16–17) (the state, like a rampaging mob boss)</em>, 2017. Acrylic, ink, and oil on canvas, 79 × 104 in. (188 × 264.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Nancy Carrington Crown and A. Steven Crown in honor of Scott Rothkopf and Jonathan Burnham 2018.110. © Frances Stark</p>
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- Year
- 2017
- Dimensions
- 79 × 104 in. (188 × 264.2 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Frances Stark
Artist

Mixed Media
Frances Stark 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.
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Dishonest but Appealing (for Parkett no. 93)
2013 · Multiple of book with safe
Nothing is Enough
2012 · Single-channel digital video projection, black and white, sound; edition number five of five
Detumescence and/or its Opposite (from Torment of Follies)
2011 · Three components of vinyl and paint on wall
My Best Thing
2011 · Video (color, sound)
Chorus Line
2008 · Cut-and-pasted printed and colored papers on paper
prelude: the prposed site of the grandview gardens
2002 · CD
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- Frances Stark
- Year
- 2017
- Dimensions
- 79 × 104 in. (188 × 264.2 cm)
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- WW-2017-173519
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- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
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- whitney
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