{"id":1015,"date":"2007-04-27T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2007-04-27T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/kit\/04\/27\/mark-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2013-03-04T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T00:16:02","slug":"mark-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/artist-of-the-day\/04\/27\/mark-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"
The artist of the day is Mark Jenkins<\/a> [wikipedia<\/a>]<\/p>\n Mark Jenkins is an American artist who creates sculptures and street installations using clear packing tape.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I have a pretty strong background in music. I started playing the saxophone in grade school and continued on into college. Later, I quit the symphony and joined a funk band, and then finally found my niche in rap-electronica. While I was at Virginia Tech, the only visual arts course I took was a humanities course on post-1900 art. I graduated with a degree in geology. My interest in installation sculpture came from seeing a Juan Mu\u00f1oz exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., in 2001.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n