Legacy Art Gallery and Visual Arts Visiting Speaker series presents
Jessica Stockholder
Recorded Oct 2, 2024
Jessica Stockholder’s often sprawling constructions have played a crucial role in expanding the dialogue between sculpture and painting. The artist merges seemingly disparate, everyday objects, such as – lampposts, car parts, hoses, containers, extension cords, lumber, car parts, carpets and furniture. Drawing attention to these ordinary everyday materials, Stockholder engages the sensuality and pleasure evoked by color and formal order in an effort to call attention to the edges of understanding. Her use of color is also pivotal as she orchestrates an intersection of pictorial and physical space as she probes how meaning derives from physicality. Stockholder maps out a constructed world informed by numerous artistic traditions, including abstract expressionism, color field painting, installation art, and minimalism.
Jessica Stockholder was born in 1959 in Seattle, Washington and currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. She has exhibited widely in museums and galleries internationally. Her solo exhibitions include the Power Plant, Toronto (2000); MoMA P.S. 1, New York (2006); the Musée d’art Modern, Saint-Etienne, Métropole, France (2012). Her work is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; MoCA LA; SF MoMA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The British Museum, London; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Stockholder had her third solo exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room, in the fall of 2016 and a solo exhibition titled Relational Aesthetics at The Contemporary Austin in 2018. Currently, she is the subject of a solo exhibition titled Stuff Matters at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, The Netherlands.