As the work progresses between two people initially unfamiliar to each other, the sexually oriented chat evolves into talk of them becoming potential collaborators. These encounters then give way to talk about film, art and subjectivity, touching on ideas surrounding history, politics and the very act of art-making itself.
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The video traces the development of their relationship beginning as a series of discussions revolving around standard chat-room flirtatiousness. In My Best Thing two naked online avatars are pictured, a man and a woman, playmobil-like figures wearing discrete fig leaves for modesty. While arguably best known for her works on paper, where such issues are seen through the lens of writing, drawing and collage, her videos and performance pieces likewise comprise a forceful component in her overall artistic proposition. It continues Stark’s ongoing concerns with expectation and gender infused with notions of doubt, anxiety and musings on the general state of things. Using transcripts of an on-line relationship between Stark and two random strangers, the video unfolds to build an intimate portrait of the artist and her creative process. Initially presented in ILLUMInations at the 54 th Venice Biennale, this recent work has rapidly gained critical attention. The Contemporary Art Gallery presents My Best Thing (2011), Frances Stark’s first feature-length animation. To accompany the exhibition a publication with a major new text by Mark Godfrey, Curator, Tate Modern, London, has been produced by the Contemporary Art Gallery in collaboration with the Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, dedicated exclusively to My Best Thing.
My Best Thing was presented at the 54 th Venice Biennale and has subsequently been screened at Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Alberta, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles. Horse., Institute of Contemporary Arts, London The Space of Words, MUDAM: Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (2009) Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York Word Event, Kunsthalle Basel and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York (2008). Recent group exhibitions include Restless Empathy, Aspen Art Museum, The Page, Kimmerich, New York For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit (all 2010) Picturing the Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Poor. Recent solo exhibitions include the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (both 2010) Nottingham Contemporary (2009) Portikus, Frankfurt/ Main and Wiener Secession, Vienna (both 2008) FRAC – Bourgogne, Dijon (2007) Artspace, San Antonio (2006). She studied at San Francisco State University, San Francisco and Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. Frances Stark My Best Thing Alvin Balkind Gallery February 3 to ApFrances Stark was born in 1967, Newport Beach, California.
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