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Jen Stark at Civilian Art Projects

May 9, 2008

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The Very Young Jen Stark
ImageAmong the many openings this busy weekend was Civilian Art Projects, the floor above Touchstone at 406 Seventh Street. I think the standout of the show is the just-graduated from MICA (sigh for the days when) Jen Stark, who carves into stacks of colored construction paper, fashioning intricate and intriguing objects that capture you with their visual appeal and make you stop for a while trying to figure out how they were made. She says she started doing them in Europe when the only art supplies she could afford, given the sad state of the dollar against the Euro, were construction paper and blades.

 
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