Jenkins mark biography

Mark Jenkins American, b. Works Biography Exhibitions. View works. With him, the street is never approached only as a place of exhibition but also always as a space allowing to stage events. Initiated inhis work is at the same time sculpture, installation, performance and social experimentation. I wanted passers-by to lift their heads off their mobiles and reconnect with real life.

These characters evoke typically urban figures, banal enough to blend anonymously into the urban setting. It is as if the works were hidden or camouflaged by their hyperrealism, people can easily pass by them without even realizing that they have just passed in front of a sculpture and not in front of a real being. In he moved back to Washington DC and in he began working with Sandra Fernandez on the Storker Projecta series in which clear casts of toy babies are installed in different cities to interact with their surrounding environment.

In Jenkins began the Embed Series. The tape casts were filled with newspaper and cement and dressed to create hyper realistic sculptural duplicates of himself and Fernandez.

Jenkins mark biography

These new lifelike sculpture installations created confusion causing some passers-by to make calls to which caused police and sometimes rescue units to arrive on his "stage". In Jenkins collaborated with Greenpeace on an awareness campaign, Plight of the Polar Bearsto draw attention to the melting Arctic ice caps. Jenkins created realistic figures appearing to be homeless people but with plush polar bear heads.

Indoors Jenkins has exhibited internationally in galleries and museums, and he continues his Embed Series in public settings such as cafeterias, schools and building lobbies. Inhe and Fernandez created Project84in London, England. Commercially, Jenkins collaborated with the fashion brand Balenciaga [ 25 ] at stores including Colette and Selfridges.

In NovemberJenkins was commissioned by Steve Lazarides to make a replica of his sister Kristina passed out in a bowl of soup for his gallery, which subsequently resulted in police breaking down the gallery doors in a rescue attempt [ 26 ]. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Jenkins joined a Greenpeace campaign called "Plight of the Polar Bears" aimed at highlighting the plight of polar bears due to the melting Arctic ice.

As part of this project, he created realistic figures of homeless people with plush bear heads. Inwith his "Traffic-Go-Round" project, the artist transformed road signs into unusual carousels, using tape-made horses. They were attached to poles so that their faces looked directly at oncoming traffic. Passing drivers felt as if the horses were galloping past them.

Regarding illegal street art during an interview inJenkins stated, "I think my point of view is that visual bursts are needed to stimulate the environment. However, unfortunately, all the visual content that is constantly updated is commercial advertising. Create a new account. Log In. Browse Biographies. Quiz Are you a biography master?

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