Artist: Jen Stark
Title: Sundial Spectrum
Temporary Public Art Installation, Española Way (between Washington Avenue and Collins Court)
December 3, 2024 – Spring 2025
Opening: Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 1 p.m. (Washington Avenue and Española Way)
Please join us for the opening reception, which will be held Tuesday, December 3rd at 1:00 p.m. on Espanola Way between Washington and Collins avenues.
Elevate Espanola is a dedicated art presentation site that commissions installations suspended above the historic Espanola Way corridor, providing pedestrian connectivity between Espanola Way and Ocean Drive. Featuring annual projects, Elevate Espanola plays an important role in bringing contemporary art to one of the most publicly visible areas of Miami Beach.
For its fall 2024 installation, Los Angeles-based, Miami-born, visual artist Jen Stark will present Sundial Spectrum, a site-specific sculptural art installation and mural in her signature spectrum of colors and splash forms. The work will feature 13 sculptural panels fabricated from clear acrylic sheets, layered with laser-cut transparent vinyl inspired by geometry and natural forms. As sunlight filters through, viewers will find themselves surrounded by rainbow shadows along Española Way. The work’s hypnotic patterning will create an illusion of movement and interact with sunlight throughout the day, casting shadows along Espanola Way to produce an abstract sundial of prismatic colors.
Sundial Spectrum is the seventh installment of Elevate Española, a temporary public art program launched by the city in 2022, which aims to enhance the corridor and encourage pedestrian connectivity to Ocean Drive.
Visual artist Jen Stark transforms complex ideas about fractals, evolution, color theory, topography, sacred geometries, and patterns of the universe into approachable and engaging works of art. Drawing upon an ever-expanding use of material and technology, Stark allows her aesthetic to transcend all forms of media, ranging from paintings and sculptures, animations and installations, to interactive projections and NFTs. Over the course of her career, Stark’s work has been exhibited globally, with major shows and public art installations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Thailand, and Canada. Her work is currently held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the West Collection, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, NSU Art Museum, and MOGA, among others. Stark lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.