birth_place nationality field birth_date works article_title name bgcolour
newport beach , california american art , performance , video , writing 1967 '' my best thing '' frances stark
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frances stark

frances stark -lrb- born 1967 -rrb- 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 the hand-traced words .
often in repetition , as visual motifs in drawings and collage compositions that reference a subject , mood , or another discipline , such as music , architecture , or philosophy .
her work had been exhibited internationally , including the 2008 whitney biennial , the performa 11 biennial , and the 54th venice biennale .
stark is also a writer of prose and poetry that has been published in various magazines , catalogues , and books .
