Fake Bodies as Street Art - Mark Jenkins Embed Series (GALLERY)

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On: Jun 10, 08
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Mark Jenkins has been featured on Trend Hunter before, but his new Embed series was worth a mention. Jenkins is an American artist who specializes in street installations, some of which can be described as “prank” installations. Jenkins creates projects using clear packing tape with which he makes babies, small children, adults and animals and places them on busy streets in cities such as New York, Los Angeles and Washington D.C.

Jenkins places these objects in clear view of unsuspecting pedestrians and then documents their reaction through video. The project in the gallery called the Embed Series involves life-sized figures dressed in real clothes and placed in the most unlikely positions such as that upside down half body sticking out of that electricity box in a city’s corner. How bizarre

Mark Jenkins - Storker Project

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.

Tape Art - Tape Ducks, Giraffes and People by Mark Jenkins (GALLERY)

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… [More]






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