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<p>Since the 1980s, Jessica Stockholder has engaged in an ongoing dialogue about the possibilities of painting and the pictorial potential of sculpture with idiosyncratic pairings of found materials, architecture, and broad swaths of paint in vibrant colors. Called “the reigning queen of the found object”, Stockholder “gives a single bare light bulb a classic purity and a crumpled parasol the weight of withdrawal.” Her pioneering site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as “paintings in space.”</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1996
- Dimensions
- 180.3 × 121.9 × 73.6 cm (71 × 48 × 29 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Jessica Stockholder
Artist
Installation
Jessica Stockholder is a Canadian-American artist known for site-specific installation works and sculptures that are often described as "paintings in space." She came to prominence in the early 1990s with monumental works that challenged boundaries between artwork and display environment as well as between pictorial and physical experience. Her art often presents a "barrage" of bold colors, textures and everyday objects, incorporating floors, walls and ceilings and sometimes spilling out of exhibition sites. Critics suggest that her work is informed by diverse artistic traditions, including abstract expressionism, color field painting, minimalism and Pop art. Since her early career, they have noted in her work an openness to spontaneity, accident and marginality and a rejection of permanency, monetization and disciplinary conventions that Stephen Westfall characterized as an "almost shocking sense of freedom."
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- Jessica Stockholder
- Year
- 1996
- Dimensions
- 180.3 × 121.9 × 73.6 cm (71 × 48 × 29 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1996-109083
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified