Jan Albers, John Baldessari, Fiona Banner, Fiona Connor, Kirsten Everberg, Jorge Mendez Blake, Liliana Moro, Jorge Pardo, Jessica Stockholder, SUPERFLEX, Kerry Tribe, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Paul Winstanley & Pae White
“I began, and still do begin, with a love for color and unrelenting interest in the intersection of a pictorial way of looking, (or thinking,) with the physical matter of the body and the materiality of things in space.” – Jessica Stockholder
Jessica Stockholder (b. 1959, Seattle, Washingon) studied painting at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and received an MFA from Yale University. Stockholder is a pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations that have become a prominent language in contemporary art. Her site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as “paintings in space.” Stockholder’s complex installations incorporate the architecture in which they have been conceived, blanketing the floor, scaling walls and ceiling, and even spilling out of windows, through doors, and into the surrounding landscape.
Jessica Stockholder (Phaidon Monograph)
Jessica Stockholder
Jessica Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in social and cultural space - using found objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colours. This revised, updated edition spotlights the extraordinary evolution of her career, and examines the pivotal role she has played in shaping some of the most fundamental ideas around which contemporary sculpture and painting revolve today.
Authors include: Jessica Stockholder, Lynne Tillman, Barry Schwabsky, Lynne Cooke, & Germano Celant
Published by Phaidon
Hardback, 240 pages
ISBN 9780714872070
Jessica Stockholder's catalogue for her solo exhibition Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear at the Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne Métrople, June 23rd - September 30th 2012. The catalogue gives an overview of both early Stockholder work and installations included in the exhibition.
Publisher:
Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne Métrople
Silvana Editoriale Spa and Cinisello Balsamom, Milano
ISBN 9-782907-571579
Catalogue for Jessica Stockholder's 2012 retrospective at the Fundación Barrié. The Fundación Barrié introduced for the first time in Spain a retrospective exhibition around the work of American artist Jessica Stockholder.
Publisher: Fundación Barrié
Design: DARDO (Maria Agra)
ISBN 978-84-9752-087-4
The catalogue, Jessica Stockholder: Grab grassy this moment your I's, accompanied her exhibition this year at the Laumeier Sculpture Park. Laumeier paired the images of Stockholder's assemblies with poems by Mary Jo Bang.
Publisher: Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, 2011
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-940337-26-8
Jessica Stockholder, ABC TASTE, The Perfect Guest, 2010
Format : 26 x 24cm / 10.2 x 9.4 in., Skinplast wrapped cover, fluorescent green stitch binding, 56 pages, 240g Munken Lynx paper with cut-out motif, printed in six colors. Edition of 1000 of which 20 signed and numbered deluxe editions plus 4 artist's proofs, include an original drawing and collage of Jessica Stockholder's "Sex Poem", Rubber up Behind the Eye Balls. ISBN: 978-2-9533912-2-0
ABC TASTE, The Perfect Guest is a multivalent romp through an adult's ABC primer at speed. Taste is an expansive concept that evokes thoughts on decorum, olfactory sensations, flavor and likability. For the cover, Stockholder prints a photomontage in mauve onto the tactile surface of "Skinplast" - a rubbery substance that invites touch. The armatures that pull Taste together are the alphabet, the inventive repetitive of a cut-out hole, and the attendant artist's word poem, The Perfect Guest.
Taste is built on a pretext of overlapping systems. Poetry, alphabet and word play jockey with the languages of collage, wax crayons, and fluorescent colors. Within the tangle of entry points, there lies a nonchalant precision, the coherence of Stockholder's exacting working process, and a gutsy beauty
Feeling gravity's pull: Jessica Stockholder's stacked works at Mitchell-Innes & Nash by Allison Young
Blurring the boundaries between painting, sculpture and architecture, Stockholder's current exhibition at Mitchell-Innes & Nash emphasises process, form, and, above all, gravity. This is apparent in installations such as Sale A Way or Security Detail that feature slouched and hanging components.
However, the force is most integral to the artist's ongoing series of Assists – sculptures that cannot stand upright without the support of a given 'base'. Assist: Smoke and Mirrors, for instance – comprised of a web of copper wire, tarp and hardware parts – is buttressed by an upholstered chair; in a future iteration, it may instead come to lean on another sculpture or object. In the Assists, each component's mass, orientation and weight affect the stability of adjacent elements. Such works, perhaps, reflect the possibilities of both vulnerability and mutual dependence within our personal and civic lives.
Jessica Stockholder 'The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room' by KEN JOHNSON
Jessica Stockholder's colorful assemblages of diverse store-bought and found objects call to mind a term from neuroscience, "multisensory binding." The phrase refers to the fact that the outer world appears to us seamlessly coherent, despite the many sensory signals streaming in from diverse sources — eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. Usually we don't notice how the mind binds together these different inputs. In Ms. Stockholder's engaging, if not wildly exciting, show of sculptures at Mitchell-Innes & Nash, your awareness of your attention's shifting between the disparate parts and the whole composition is essential.
Everyday Abstraction: A Q&A with Jessica Stockholder by Taylor Dafoe
Jessica Stockholder's work is difficult to talk about because it eschews so many of the typical classifications we use to discuss contemporary art: "installation," "site-specific," "ephemeral." Indeed, that's one of the most central elements of her practice: the dissolving of boundaries.
Look no further than her immersive new show at Mitchell Innes & Nash, "The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room." In it, multifaceted sculptures made from found items are installed sporadically throughout the space, calling into question what belongs with what. Discarded scallop shells rest atop blue ice cube trays. An old dance floor tile is mounted to the wall above sheets of industrial metal fencing. A sagging square of linoleum hangs from a rusty hinge. There are two new pieces from her "Assists" series — modular sculptures that can only stand upright when attached to something else: a car, a piano, or in this case, two threadbare lounge chairs the artist sourced from Craigslist. (Though, the furniture isn't technically a part of the sculpture: "If you buy an 'Assist' attached to a piano, you don't get the piano," Stockholder says.)
Finally the show's central work, the eponymous "The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room," features a large, winding, wooden stage connected to an elevated deck gallery-goers are encouraged to walk onto. Part sculpture, part viewing platform, part pedestal, it's easy to love, but hard to explain why.
While the installation was wrapping up in the gallery, Stockholder sat down with Artinfo to talk about the show and some of the larger themes that run throughout all her work.
Jessica Stockholder: The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room
August 25 - October 1, 2016; Opening reception: Thursday, September 15, 6-8 pm
Mitchell-Innes & Nash: 534 W 26th Street, New York NY 10001
The Guests All Crowded Into the Dining Room will feature works from several facets of Stockholder's practice, including a large-scale site-responsive installation in addition to distinct bodies of studio works. This will be the gallery's third solo exhibition with the artist.
Polígrafa Obra Gràfica presents an edition with Jessica Stockholder
Set of 5 Lithographs, 2015
"Aspect Syllabary"
On Somerset paper
Size: 30 x 30 inches.
Edition: 40
Price: $1,500 (each)