Mark Jenkins

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Mark Jenkins is an American artist who creates sculptures and street installations using clear packing tape. His work has been featured in various newspapers and magazines including Time Out: New York, The Washington Post, the book Hidden Track: How Visual Culture is Going Places, and on the street art blog Wooster Collective. His works have also been shown in galleries in the US cities and overseas in the UK, Holland and Brazil. In addition to his own website he maintains the site tapesculpture.org which includes a DIY tutorial for making tape sculptures.


[edit] Street Installation Projects

Storker Project
This project involves placing tape babies in various outdoor environments in different cities. To date there have been over 80 babies installed. [1]

Meterpops
The Meterpop installation involved putting transparent lollipop heads onto parking meters in Washington DC. [2]

Jesus 2.0
Jesus 2.0 was a street art collaboration between Mark Jenkins and the Graffiti Research Lab in which a clear tape sculpture of a child in crucifixion position was fitted with LED Throwies and then installed on a lampost in New York City. [3]

Embed Series
In this series Jenkins dresses the tape men in clothing to create hyper realistic sculptures and installs them in various postions in urban evironments. 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]

Traffic-Go-Round
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 lamposts 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.


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