I recently discovered Jen Stark's work and honestly, I am completely hooked. This Miami-based artist who now lives in Los Angeles is one of those people who simply knows how to bring color and movement to any surface, whether it’s cut paper, metal, wood, or directly the digital world.

What’s interesting about Jen Stark is that her artistic vision has been quite consistent throughout her career. She graduated in 2005 from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has been experimenting with different media ever since, but always with that same obsession with mathematical patterns and nature. If you look at her work, you'll see that everything is connected: fractals, equations, spirals. She explained it well herself, saying she visualizes the mathematical part of nature, those forms we find in pi, in spirals, in how colors in nature attract or warn.

What really caught my attention was her transition into the NFT world. During the pandemic, she moved to Los Angeles and had more time to experiment. In 2021, when NFTs were at their peak, she created her first NFT called Multiverso, a 1 of 1 where she brought her iconic pattern style into a continuously looping digital animation. She described the piece as a psychedelic zoo of multi-layered shapes in a kaleidoscopic garden.

After that, Jen Stark collaborated with Art Blocks on a project called Vortex. She transformed her old cut paper sculptures into code, creating a series of 1,000 NFTs released in December 2021. Each one spins kaleidoscopically, reflecting that same artistic DNA that characterizes everything she does.

In 2022, things escalated. She launched the series Cosmic Cuties, 333 items full of big eyes, smiles, and those wavy color patterns that are her trademark. That same year, Christie's included her work Light Box #2 in the July auction Trespassing III and invited her as a speaker at their art and technology summit.

What I like most about Jen Stark is her philosophy. In an interview, she shared advice for other artists that is quite powerful: focus on what you love, keep working, persevere. She says many people told her she couldn’t do what she wanted, but she’s very stubborn and simply kept going. Her recommendation is to follow your own happiness, and in the end, you’ll reap joy.

Whether in physical galleries, auctions, or the NFT world, Jen Stark has that ability to bring light and color to any space. Her works create an accessible entry point to connect with the universe’s nature from anywhere. Definitely worth following her work if you’re interested in art that blends technology, nature, and mathematics.