Jessica Stockholder - Galleria Raffaella Cortese

biography

Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle in 1959. She lives and works in Chicago.

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.

Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle in 1959. She lives and works in Chicago.

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: 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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gallery exhibitions

What is Normal

may 20 – august 28, 2021

Via A. Stradella 1

Glimpse

may 28 – august 2, 2014

via a. stradella 1

Living with…

april 16 – may 20, 2009

via a. stradella 7

Jessica Stockholder

may 25 – july 29, 2006

via a. stradella 7

Jessica Stockholder

january 18 – march 30, 2002

via r. farneti, 10

Project Room: Jessica Stockholder

may 18 – july 21, 2000

images

Holding hardware, 2021

Steel, paint, rope, hardware, iron weight

87 × 59 × 12,6 cm (sculpture; overall dimensions variable)

Holding hardware, 2021 (detail)

Steel, paint, rope, hardware, iron weight

87 × 59 × 12,6 cm (sculpture; overall dimensions variable)

Draft [JS606], 2014

Plastic garage floor tiles, copper tubing, foil, wooden pepper mill part, acrylic paint, plastic parts, electric cord, wooden branch, rubber washers, wire, shells, galvanized steel vent part, white metal bracket, orange rope, white rope, zip ties, key chain wires, orange ping pong balls, rubber, rivets. Light fixture: recessed LED ceiling fixture.

116,8 × 91,4 × 91,4 cm

Green Angles [JS598], 2014

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

5 Plus Orange [JS569], 2013

Brass #5 letter, copper plumbing bulb, wood fan blade, plastic parts, bungee cord, plumbing parts and oil paint

147,3 × 38,1 × 14 cm

Marked, Clamped & Cloud [JS581], 2013

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

Corona Virus homework #34: Bruise, 2020

Chiffon, acrylic paint, fabric, Lokta paper

78,7 × 61 cm

Corona Virus homework #40: Juneteenth, 2020

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

Corona Virus homework #38: Flash point, 2020

Three kinds of paper, plastic tarp, thread, acrylic paint

53,3 × 55,9 cm

Corona Virus homework #41: Hallmark Card, 2020

Watercolor paper, embroidery thread, pencil crayon

49,5 × 38,1 cm

[JS 279], 1996

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

Untitled, 2003

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

public exhibitions