The Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyoma, Tokyo is currently showing an exhibition of work by Mark Jenkins and Miho Kinomura. Glazed Paradise will be on show until August 15th featuring an installation which aims to create “a frozen hyperreality.”
Jenkins is an American installation artist known for his tape sculptures installed in urban and other public spaces. Kinomura is a filmmaker who will be producing a film about Jenkin’s process.
Here is some more work by Jenkins:
These artistic white duck sculptures are actually made out of tape. Even more impressive is the giraffe reaching up to grab a plastic bag out of tree in urban Washington. The tape dogs digging through piles of garbage are incredible too, as is the oversize phone made of tape. My personal favourite i… [More]
Perhaps his best known work, the storker project by Mark Jenkins features tape babies placed all over the city. This is a great example of prank art. “The STORKER PROJECT is a species propagation movement by STORKER seeking to incite select individuals from the public at large, perhaps you. If whi… [More]
In his latest display of public art, prankster artist Mark Jenkins has installed ‘meter pops’ throughout Washington. Check out his site for a glimpse of more meter pops! [More]