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Jessica Stockholder, Door Hinges: Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607

Past exhibition
12 September 2015 - 16 January 2016
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Jessica Stockholder A Freezer, 2015 Bathtub, oil paint, street lamp with LED light, rubber mat, resin, and green fabric 90 x 70 x 77 in 228.6 x 177.8 x 195.6 cm
Jessica Stockholder
A Freezer, 2015
Bathtub, oil paint, street lamp with LED light, rubber mat, resin, and green fabric
90 x 70 x 77 in
228.6 x 177.8 x 195.6 cm

Kavi Gupta is pleased to present Jessica Stockholder’s first solo exhibition in Chicago in 24 years. Door Hinges includes studio works that bridge painting and sculpture alongside an installation that tethers the outside of the gallery to the inside. A winding platform leads the viewers to her latest body of work, Assists. Stockholder’s Assists explore the interstitial space between works of art and their surrounding objects, questioning notions of boundary and dependence while responding to the landscape of the human-made things that has been explored by Stockholder’s work in the past.

 

The Assists are strapped to found furniture and appliances, sometimes acting as a pedestal for artwork by Stockholder or other artists. The Assist has a symbiotic relationship with its adjoining objects, and indeed cannot stand alone without them.

 

The evocative space embodied in Stockholder’s paintings communicates something of the interiority of human experience chipping away at the essential aloneness of human beings. Paintings hang on walls; picture-making occurs in relation to surface; architecture provides walls and surface; and architecture is inserted into landscape. Stockholder calls attention to the human processing and resultant transformation of objects from the natural realm. While some of the human-made objects utilized in Door Hinges have celebrated authors, most makers remain anonymous. This is one more way in which she explores questions of framing and context.

 

The Assists occupy the space between all of these junctures much like hinges occupy the space between a door and its jamb. Door Hinges is presented in conjunction with ASSISTED, a group exhibition curated by Jessica Stockholder.

Jessica Stockholder lives and works in Chicago, IL. Recent exhibitions and installations include Erstwhile & Notwithstanding at C.Ar.D: Contemporary Art and Design, Pienello, Italy (2014); Angled Tangle at Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL (2014); Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear at Musee D’art Moderne, Saint-Etienne Metropole, France (2012); Peer Out to See at Palacio de Cristal, Reina Sofia, Madrid (2010); and Of Standing Float Roots in Thin Air at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (2006). Stockholder was Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at Yale University for twelve years and has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the John Solomon Guggenheim Foundation and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

 

Jessica Stockholder, Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago, will simultaneously unveil her work throughout Chicago this fall in three different venues including the Smart Museum of Art, IN/SITU EXPO CHICAGO, and mk The Restaurant

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Works
  • Jessica Stockholder A Freezer, 2015 Bathtub, oil paint, street lamp with LED light, rubber mat, resin, and green fabric 90 x 70 x 77 in 228.6 x 177.8 x 195.6 cm
    Jessica Stockholder
    A Freezer, 2015
    Bathtub, oil paint, street lamp with LED light, rubber mat, resin, and green fabric
    90 x 70 x 77 in
    228.6 x 177.8 x 195.6 cm
  • Jessica Stockholder A Log, 2015 Painted diamond plate, two driveway mirrors, two light fixtures, one painted log, rope. 72 x 96 x 120 in 182.9 x 243.8 x 304.8 cm
    Jessica Stockholder
    A Log, 2015
    Painted diamond plate, two driveway mirrors, two light fixtures, one painted log, rope.
    72 x 96 x 120 in
    182.9 x 243.8 x 304.8 cm
  • Jessica Stockholder Assist #1 A Cyst, 2015 Painted metal, ratchet clamp with yellow webbing, felt (if needed), some kind of found support to clamp the work to. 74 x 48 x 90 in 188 x 121.9 x 228.6 cm
    Jessica Stockholder
    Assist #1 A Cyst, 2015
    Painted metal, ratchet clamp with yellow webbing, felt (if needed), some kind of found support to clamp the work to.
    74 x 48 x 90 in
    188 x 121.9 x 228.6 cm
  • Jessica Stockholder Assist #2 Seal Lean, 2015 Painted metal, ratchet clamp with yellow webbing, felt (if needed), some kind of found support to clamp the work to. 74 x 48 x 90 in 188 x 121.9 x 228.6 cm
    Jessica Stockholder
    Assist #2 Seal Lean, 2015
    Painted metal, ratchet clamp with yellow webbing, felt (if needed), some kind of found support to clamp the work to.
    74 x 48 x 90 in
    188 x 121.9 x 228.6 cm
  • Jessica Stockholder Assist #3 A Chord, 2015 Painted metal, ratchet clamp with yellow webbing, felt (if needed), some kind of found support to clamp the work to. 51 x 45 x 88 in 129.5 x 114.3 x 223.5 cm
    Jessica Stockholder
    Assist #3 A Chord, 2015
    Painted metal, ratchet clamp with yellow webbing, felt (if needed), some kind of found support to clamp the work to.
    51 x 45 x 88 in
    129.5 x 114.3 x 223.5 cm
  • Jessica Stockholder Wall Hardware, 2015-2018 Four 4x8 foot sections of wall, 18 painted metal hardware parts, one braided metal cable to ceiling 19 x 8.5 x 4 ft 5.8 x 2.6 x 1.2 m
    Jessica Stockholder
    Wall Hardware, 2015-2018
    Four 4x8 foot sections of wall, 18 painted metal hardware parts, one braided metal cable to ceiling
    19 x 8.5 x 4 ft 5.8 x 2.6 x 1.2 m
  • Jessica Stockholder Put Off Put Off Put, 2015 Wooden platter, insulated wire, plastic parts, rubber ball, copper wire, acrylic and oil paint, tree bark, adhesive, adhesive metal line, screen printed fragment of a childs foam surf board 19 x 16 x 6 in 48.3 x 40.6 x 15.2 cm
    Jessica Stockholder
    Put Off Put Off Put, 2015
    Wooden platter, insulated wire, plastic parts, rubber ball, copper wire, acrylic and oil paint, tree bark, adhesive, adhesive metal line, screen printed fragment of a childs foam surf board
    19 x 16 x 6 in
    48.3 x 40.6 x 15.2 cm
Installation Views
  • Stockholder A Log 01 300 1 1080X720
  • Stockholder A Log 02 300 1 1080X720
  • Install 05 300 480X720
  • Install 07 300 480X720
  • Install 03 300 1080X720
  • Install 08 300 1080X720
  • Install 01 300 1080X720
  • Install 06 300 1080X720
  • Install 11 300 1089X720
  • Install 09 300 1080X720
  • Stockholder A Freezer 01 300 1 480X720
  • Install 12 300 1080X720
  • Stockholder Assist 1 01 300 1 600X720
  • Stockholder Assist 2 01 300 1 1018X720
  • Stockholder Assist 3 02 300 558X720
  • Stockholder Assist 3 03 300 1 522X720
  • Stockholder Put Off Put Off Put 01 300 1068X720
  • Stockholder Wall Hardware Detail 300 1080X720
  • Stockholder Wall Hardware 01 300 1 1080X720
Press
  • Jessica Stockholder: Door Hinges at Kavi Gupta Gallery

    Stephanie Cristello, Art Review, December 1, 2015
  • 10 ART SHOWS TO SEE THIS FALL

    Lori Waxman, Chicago Tribune, September 4, 2015

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