The art of Mark Jenkins

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Mark Jenkins (born 1970 in Alexandria, Virginia) is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using box sealing tape. In addition to creating art, he also teaches his sculpture techniques through workshops in cities he visits. He currently lives in Washington, DC. --Wiki

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From Mark Jenkins comes this remarkable street sculpture called Embed. It consists of a male figure wearing a hoody sweatshirt with his head stuck inside a concrete wall. Mark creates sculptures out of tape, and then puts clothes on the sculpture. Other advertisers should take notes from this innovative, guerilla street artists. You can watch how his work stops people in their tracks. -- http://www.moillusions.com/

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Jenkins' practice of street art is to use the "street as a stage" where passersby become actors. Many of his installations have resulted in intervention by the authorities whom he also regards as actors. Most of his early outdoor works were non-commissioned.

Jenkins said the following about the illegal aspects of street art during an interview with art critic Brian Sherwin, "There is opposition, and risk, but I think that just shows that street art is the sort of frontier where the leading edge really does have to chew through the ice. And it's good for people to remember public space is a battleground, with the government, advertisers and artists all mixing and mashing, and even now the strange cross-pollination taking place as street artists sometimes become brands, and brands camouflaging as street art creating complex hybrids or impersonators. I think it's understanding the strangeness of the playing field where you'll realize that painting street artists, writers, as the bad guys is a shallow view. As for the old bronzes, I really don't see them as part of what's going on in the dialogue unless addressed by a new intervention." --Wiki

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As for the old bronzes, I really don't see them as part of what's going on in the dialogue unless addressed by a new intervention."

right on.  some interventions:


In front of the Ernst & Young building (Los Angeles)
hey, this is bronze, but the design may as well be jenkins's.


The "Magic tap" (found in "Aqualand" of Cadiz, Spain), which appears to float in the sky with an endless supply of water. Actually, there is a pipe hidden in the stream of water that holds the whole structure.

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Prague
they didn't even bother to have him circumcised.


Oslo, Norway
rh bill, scandinavian version?


where those babies went.

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Statue in the Guadalquivir river, near La Mezquita, Cordoba, Spain


Santa Fe, New Mexico


Potsdam, Germany

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"Iron Lady", in front of the building Regentes, Netherlands


Salt Lake City


Singapore

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Keukenhof, Lisse, Holland


In front of the Bukcheon Museum, Seoul, Korea


"Fluegelauto", on top of the historic armoury "Zeughaus", Cologne, Germany

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A contemporary representation of Charles La Trobe in central Melbourne (This temporary installation was removed at the end of June 2006 and has been acquired by La Trobe University).


Bronze statue of writer Franz Kafka, Prague


Statue of a giant piece of sh!t, Ponta Grossa, Brazil

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