Frances Stark

lonely and abandoned on the market place

28 June 2019 -
17 August 2019

opening reception on Friday,
28 June, 7-9 pm

Frances Stark

lonely and abandoned on the market place
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Clever/Stupid promotional prize poster with parrot pair, or ‘Art offers the possibility of love with strangers’”, 2019
double-sided poster, acrylic, gold leaf and gesso on canvas
145 x 112 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Clever/Stupid promotional prize poster with parrot pair, or ‘Art offers the possibility of love with strangers’”, 2019
double-sided poster, acrylic, gold leaf and gesso on canvas
145 x 112 cm

Frances Stark

“Reading Ian Svenonius’s Psychic Soviet from 2006”, 2019
acrylic, gesso and Sumi ink on canvas
183 x 236 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Reading Ian Svenonius’s Psychic Soviet from 2006”, 2019
acrylic, gesso and Sumi ink on canvas
183 x 236 cm

Frances Stark

lonely and abandoned on the market place
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“A book object made for Parkett in 2013 called Dishonest But Appealing”, 2019
acrylic, gold leaf and gesso on canvas
145 x 112 cm

Frances Stark

“Bobby Jesus’s unwritten picaresque memoir in the form of a book object with a hidden chamber between the pages to stash away secret things”, 2019
acrylic, gesso and Sumi ink on canvas
145 x 112 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Bobby Jesus’s unwritten picaresque memoir in the form of a book object with a hidden chamber between the pages to stash away secret things”, 2019
acrylic, gesso and Sumi ink on canvas
145 x 112 cm

Frances Stark

lonely and abandoned on the market place
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Reading the Gore Vidal book of interviews Julian Assange was carrying as he was carted off to prison in April 2019”, 2019
gouache, gesso and Sumi ink on canvas
145 x 112 cm
&
“Reading about the Americas before and after Columbus in the 15th century”, 2019
Sumi ink and gesso on canvas
each part: 91.4 x 91.4 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Reading the Gore Vidal book of interviews Julian Assange was carrying as he was carted off to prison in April 2019”, 2019
gouache, gesso and Sumi ink on canvas
145 x 112 cm

Frances Stark

“Reading about the Americas before and after Columbus in the 15th century”, 2019
Sumi ink and gesso on canvas
each part: 91.4 x 91.4 cm

Frances Stark

lonely and abandoned on the market place
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Chain Brain (pink)”, 2018
purse strap and acrylic on canvas
35.5 x 28 cm
&
“Chain Brain (black)”, 2018
chain, acrylic and oil on canvas
35.5 x 28 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Chain Brain (pink)”, 2018
purse strap and acrylic on canvas
35.5 x 28 cm

Frances Stark

“Chain Brain (black)”, 2018
chain, acrylic and oil on canvas
35.5 x 28 cm

Frances Stark

lonely and abandoned on the market place
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

lonely and abandoned on the market place
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Reading Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantamo Diary on the laptop by the fire not long before he was finally released after 17 years”, 2019
Flashe, acrylic, Sumi ink and gesso on canvas
145 x 112 cm
&
“In a book commemorating Ed Ruscha’s 2005 American Pavilion I contributed an essay (alongside Joan Didion no less!) entitled Always the Same, Always Different ”, 2019
Flashe, acrylic, gesso on canvas
112 x 145 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Reading Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantamo Diary on the laptop by the fire not long before he was finally released after 17 years”, 2019
Flashe, acrylic, Sumi ink and gesso on canvas
145 x 112 cm

Frances Stark

“In a book commemorating Ed Ruscha’s 2005 American Pavilion I contributed an essay (alongside Joan Didion no less!) entitled Always the Same, Always Different”, 2019
Flashe, acrylic, gesso on canvas
112 x 145 cm

Frances Stark

lonely and abandoned on the market place
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“The index of Chris Hedges’s Empire of Illusion from 2009, or War comma Warhol”, 2019
acrylic, tinted gesso, gesso and Sumi ink on canvas
183 x 236.5 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“The index of Chris Hedges’s Empire of Illusion from 2009, or War comma Warhol”, 2019
acrylic, tinted gesso, gesso and Sumi ink on canvas
183 x 236.5 cm

Frances Stark

lonely and abandoned on the market place
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“Reading Edward Said’s Representations of the Intellectual from 1994”, 2019
acrylic, tinted gesso, gesso, ink and Sumi ink on canvas
112 x 145 cm

Frances Stark

“Reading James Baldwin’s last interview from 1987”, 2019
acrylic, tinted gesso, gesso and Sumi ink on canvas
145 x 112 cm

Frances Stark

“Reading Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business written in 1985”, 2019
acrylic, tinted gesso, gesso, ink and Sumi ink on canvas
145 x 112 cm

Frances Stark

“Reading Henry Miller’s Air-Conditioned Nightmare from the mid-1940’s”, 2019
acrylic, gesso, Sumi ink and mica flakes on canvas
112 x 145 cm

Frances Stark

“’An invitation to escape from the relentless tyranny of Now that keeps us hooked to the irresistible fruit of American Empire,’ is one of the sentences I got paid to write for Raymond Pettibon’s New Museum catalogue in 2017”, 2018
Sumi ink on canvas
50.8 x 40 cm
installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2019

Frances Stark

“’An invitation to escape from the relentless tyranny of Now that keeps us hooked to the irresistible fruit of American Empire,’ is one of the sentences I got paid to write for Raymond Pettibon’s New Museum catalogue in 2017”, 2018
Sumi ink on canvas
50.8 x 40 cm