University of Southern California

Frances Stark

Assistant Professor and MFA Core Faculty
Painting & Drawing

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Assistant Professor FRANCES STARK was recently included in the significant group drawing exhibition Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at Secession in Vienna, greengrassi in London, Marc Foxx in Los Angeles, van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven, and Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Cologne. Stark has been in several important group shows, including Learn to Read at the Tate Modern, Fit to Print at Gagosian Gallery, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Also a noted writer, Stark's Collected Writing: 1993–2003 was published in 2003. Her artworks are included in public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, and Fonds Regional d'art Contemporain, Champagne-Ardenne.

Frances Stark, Butterfly Sculpture, 2008. 73½ × 38½ × ½ inches.