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posted: Wednesday December 06, 2006 - 12:26 PM
The title says it all. Mark Jenkins, a world-renown street artist (see Wooster Collective) has been creating these unique works of art across the globe for the last several years. Based in Washington DC, Marks' process of cling wrap to packing tape is documented on the Tape Sculpture website. The pieces are installed on the street, in nature, for gallery installations, and even as part of a High School project in Elwood, Kansas. Recently, Mark branched out into clothed tape sculptures which gives the pieces an eery yet comical emptiness.
In the words of Mark Jenkins: Making casts with tape is a trick I figured out how to do in the fourth grade but didn't make a full-time project out of it until 2003 when I started doing street and gallery installations with the Tape Men in Rio de Janeiro. I get a lot of questions about what my process is so I put up [the tape sculpture site] in the spirit of DIY.
For my part I remember stuffing a pair of jeans, shirt and hat in a corner of my room in Tel Aviv - creating something similar some 12 years back. I guess at the time I thought it was art but in the end all I had was a sagging dusty mannequin of clothes that I could never quite get to stand up straight. I'd almost say it's worth digging through my old photo albums to track down a picture of it but that might take all day...
Beautiful/Decay: Issue Q, Anthology 39, Strhess Tees
posted: Wednesday December 06, 2006 - 10:49 AM
A wallop of an update from the good folks at Beautiful/Decay. In this update we have a preview for Issue Q available exclusively at the Basel Art Fair (Miami), The online release of Anthology 39, and new tees from Strhess.
Issue Q is entirely dedicated to Deitch Projects and features an exclusive interview with Jeffrey Deitch along with an even more exclusive interview with Barry McGee who inadverently inspired the name Beautiful/Decay some 10 years ago.
B/D: Anthology is the online counterpart to Beautiful/Decay magazine and features a new series of artists, designers, writers, and musicians each month. Anthology 39 features: Jeremy Scott, Outlaw Print Co., Lemon Sky, Rock Instrument Bureau, Kyle Hauser, Blue Sage, Franco Shade, and Record Reviews.
The new Strhess tees (designed by Derek hess) make a pretty powerful statement on their own and feature some rather intense imagery. Shirt are $26 and available in both men and women's sizes.
