Serve the Dominant Ideology or Stop Being a Pussy
June 22 — July 28, 2023
New York: 24th Street
Gladstone is pleased to present Serve the Dominant Ideology or Stop Being a Pussy, the gallery’s first exhibition with artist and writer, Frances Stark. A key figure in the Los Angeles art community for more than three decades, Stark’s interdisciplinary practice incorporates painting, video, collage, performance, drawing, and text to explore how, like literature, personal interactions can become surrogate spaces for broader cultural experiences. At the center of Stark’s often-confessional practice are a series of propositions regarding reflection, repetition, and emotional reconstitution; merging the visual with the textual and fantasy with biography, the artist highlights the neglected sites of overlap that connect art with life.
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About
Photo: Alexandra Cabral
Frances Stark (b. 1967, Newport Beach, California) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Stark addresses the conditions of creative labor, producing candid and affecting work about the nature of artistic practice and the corresponding yet integral banality of the everyday. The artist’s body of work stands as a self-reflexive inquiry into the process of artistic production, and the often-elided demands of daily life. Stark makes drawings, collages, videos, PowerPoints, performances, and paintings that have been extensively exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide.
In 2021, Stark was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. In 2017 a new suite of her paintings was included in the Whitney Biennial, her cinematic opera, The Magic Flute, premiered at LACMA, and an earlier work was featured in the Venice Biennale. In 2015, Stark’s sprawling mid-career survey, UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991-2015, opened at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles before traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. That same year Stark was the subject of a solo exhibition titled,* Intimism*, a survey of her video and digital works at The Art Institute of Chicago. In addition to being the author or subject of several books, Stark’s work has been included in prominent exhibitions such as the 2013 Carnegie International, the 2011 Venice Biennale, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Her work is held in various public collections, including The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Tate, London; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam; Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the LUMA Foundation, Arles, France.
