Mark Jenkins

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Mark Jenkins (b. 1970) is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using packing tape. He has shown indoors in galleries in the U.S., Europe and Brazil and is represented by Lazarides gallery in London. He maintains the website tapesculpture.org and teaches his tape casting process in workshops in the cities he visits. He was born in Fairfax, VA and currently lives in Washington DC.

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[edit] Street Installations (by Project)

Embed by Mark Jenkins
Embed by Mark Jenkins
Meterpops
Meterpops

Tape Men (2003--)
Jenkins first street series in which casts made from his body using clear packing tape were installed in city streets in Rio de Janeiro and later Washington DC.[1]


Storker Project (2005--)
In this ongoing project tape babies are "dropped" in various outdoor environments in different cities as part of a "species propagation movement." To date there have been over 100 babies installed. [2]


Embed Series (2006--)
In this series, Jenkins dresses his life size tape casts in clothing to create realistic sculptures which he installs in various positions in urban evironments--stuck into traffic cones, trash bags, cans, etc. 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. [3]


Meterpops (2005)
The Meterpop installation involved putting transparent lollipop heads onto parking meters in Washington DC on Independence Avenue (outside the Department of Energy). [4]


Traffic-Go-Round (2007)
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 lampposts 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.


Jesus 2.0 (2006)
Jesus 2.0 was a collaboration between Mark Jenkins and the Graffiti Research Lab. Two clear tape sculptures of a child in crucifixion position were fitted with LED Throwies and then installed on a lampposts in New York City. [5]

[edit] Shows

  • Glazed Paradise, Diesel Gallery, Tokyo (Solo) 2008
  • Outsiders, Lazarides Gallery, London (Group) 2008
  • Under the Rainbow, Inbetween Gallery, Malmö (Solo/Installation) 2008
  • Fresh Air Smells Funny, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück Group) 2008
  • Santa's Ghetto, Bethlehem (Group) 2007
  • Polar Christ, Step, Warsaw (Solo/Installation) 2007
  • A Conquista Do Espaço, São Paulo (Group) 2007
  • Reciclarte, Lisbon (Group) 2007
  • Lazarides Gallery Outcasts, London (Solo) 2007
  • Eyebeam Open City, NYC (Group) 2007
  • BLK/MRKT Gallery BMG Artist's Annual, LA (Group) 2007
  • Santa's Ghetto, London (Group) 2006
  • Absolut Invasion, Rotterdam (Group) 2006
  • Fraser Gallery, Storker, Washington DC (Solo) 2005
  • Haus Arte, Rio, Brazil (Group) 2003

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