Jessica Stockholder
Works
Steel, paint, rope, hardware, iron weight
87 × 59 × 12,6 cm (sculpture; overall dimensions variable)
Steel, paint, rope, hardware, iron weight
87 × 59 × 12,6 cm (sculpture; overall dimensions variable)
Installation view, Picture Making and Assembling, 2024, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Città irreale, Kunstmuseum St Gallen, 2021
Webbing, acrylic paint, styrofoam covered with glued rice paper and acrylic paint, carpet, plastic bits, tree branch, plastic coated green wire, tack, nail and velcro
256,5 × 147,3 × 20,3 cm
Brass #5 letter, copper plumbing bulb, wood fan blade, plastic parts, bungee cord, plumbing parts and oil paint
147,3 × 38,1 × 14 cm
copper flashing, copper tubing, copper clamps, copper head scratcher, hose mount hardware, silk fabric, nylon tulle, gold string, yellow rope, acrylic and oil paint, yellow plastic part, copper wire, copper tacks, screw
182,9 × 80 × 31,8 cm
Chiffon, acrylic paint, fabric, Lokta paper
78,7 × 61 cm
Lokta paper, watercolor paper, brass screen, thread, pencil, pencil crayon, acrylic paint, marker, thread, vinyl, fragment of Nepalese painting, plastic tarp
58,4 × 53,3 cm
Three kinds of paper, plastic tarp, thread, acrylic paint
53,3 × 55,9 cm
Watercolor paper, embroidery thread, pencil crayon
49,5 × 38,1 cm
Installation view, Cut a rug a round square, 2021, OGR, Torino
Blue plastic tubs, plastic piggy bank, flowery fabric, oil paint, string, rope, wire, metal brackets, dish scrub, plastic, heating vent
142,2 × 67,3 × 5 cm
Blue glass lamp, blue plastic bin, small gold and glass topped coffee table, plywood, silver lamp, aluminum/tar backed flashing, acrylic paint, fake fur
112 × 117 × 91 cm
Elles font l’abstraction, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Galerie 1, Niveau 6, 2021
Biography
Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle in 1959. She lives and works in Chicago.
She works with Galleria Raffaella Cortese since 2002.
Stockholder is one of the most influential artists working today in the United States. She works with accumulations of mundane materials (furniture, chairs, fabrics, kitchen tools, plastic boxes, lamps). Using paint and color together with objects from the world, her art transforms the viewerʼs attention to perception, creating circumstance for familiar space and objects to be seen with fresh eyes. The altered relationship between objects, combined and her unusual sense of color are orchestrated within a pictorial framework. The work generates various moods and carries forth an abstract sort of narrative that can be understood as analogous to the flow of sound over time in music. Within this structure, and making use of the illusionistic space generated by the paintingʼs surface, Stockholderʼs work allows for the experience of fantasy and fiction.
Stockholder’s work has been exhibited in major American and European museums including: Frac Normandie, Rouen (2023); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin (2021); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2019); The Contemporary Austin (2018); Art Basel | Parcours (2018); Fundación Barrié, Vigo (2012); Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (2012); The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield (2011); Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2010); Denver Art Center (2009); Vancouver Art Gallery (2006); GAM Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin (2006); Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004); Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2003); BAC – Baltic Art Center, Visby (2003); CAPC – Museé d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2003); Kunstverein St.Gallen (2001); Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1995); Fundación “La Caixa”, Barcelona (1995); Kunsthalle Zurich (1992).
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