{"id":823,"date":"2012-08-02T21:02:46","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T02:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2025-09-15T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:33:30","slug":"jen-stark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/jen-stark\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist: Jen Stark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Influenced by the wild and colorful culture of Miami, Jen Stark<\/a> builds unimaginable, gravity-defying sculptures out of layers and layers of hand-cut paper. \u00a0Jen began working with paper when she studied abroad in France. Armed with two suitcases filled with clothes and no art supplies, she purchased a pack of assorted card stock due to its value and potential qualities as an medium. \u00a0She continues to redefine her work into new shapes and complex forms both as sculptural and animated pieces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jen’s work is currently on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery Anniversary Show called “40 Under 40: Craft Futures<\/a>” until February 2013. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Influenced by the wild and colorful culture of Miami, Jen Stark builds unimaginable, gravity-defying sculptures out of layers and layers of hand-cut paper. \u00a0Jen began working with paper when she studied abroad in France. Armed with two suitcases filled with clothes and no art supplies, she purchased a pack of assorted card stock due to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,102],"tags":[140,37,125,49,1874,171,21,1870],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-sculpture","tag-animation","tag-art","tag-artist-2","tag-color","tag-drawing","tag-jen-stark","tag-paper","tag-sculpture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Btis-dh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5963,"url":"https:\/\/www.herringbonebindery.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/15\/moving-images-animation-by-jen-stark\/","url_meta":{"origin":823,"position":0},"title":"Moving Images: Animations by Jen Stark","author":"Erin Fletcher","date":"June 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Jen Stark is so clever with paper, building unbelievably complex large-scale wall pieces and sculptures. 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