Jessica Stockholder USA, b. 1959
182.9 x 243.8 x 304.8 cm
As an artist, Stockholder is inspired by the relationships she perceives between colors and objects in her everyday visual environment. Her work employs the visual strategies of painting, sculpture, and installation—though it also resists the limitations such terms imply. Another word sometimes used to describe what Stockholder does is “assemblage,” though that term is also not quite sufficient. Assemblage artists perceive of consumer products, manufactured objects, and industrial materials—the cast-off physical residue of human civilization—as artistic objects in themselves, or as artistic mediums equally valid as paint, stone, or glue.
Stockholder indeed utilizes “readymade” articles along with traditional artistic mediums, but not in an attempt to make an object, per se. Rather, she is endeavoring to create a human experience by formulating three-dimensional pictures in space, which interact in unpredictable ways with the environments they occupy. Whether working on a small scale, such as creating an assemblage that will hang on a wall, or a massive scale, such as creating a sculptural installation that extends from inside a building to the outside, she is exploring a larger concern: people’s perception of their visual surroundings, and how that perception relates to feelings of chaos and control.
Provenance
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2016 Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (forthcoming)
2015 Door Hinges, Kavi Gupta Chicago | Elizabeth St., Chicago, IL
Rose’s Inclination, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Palpable Glyphic Rapture, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2014 Jessica Stockholder: trees, Gary Lichtenstein Editions at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Erstwhile & Notwithstanding, C.Ar.D: Contemporary Art and Design, Pienello, Italy
Glimpse, Galleria Raffaela Cortese, Milan, Italy
2013 Jessica Stockholder, Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto, ON
Lift, 1301PE, Los Angeles, California
Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear, Art 44 Basel, Switzerland
2012 Jessica Stockholder, Fundación Barrié de la Maza, Vigo, Spain
Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood, Le voyage à Nantes, Biennale de Nantes, organized by the Frac des Pays de la Loire
Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear, Musée d’art moderne, Saint-Etienne Métropole, France
Clouds, Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2011 Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Ridgefield, CT
Grab grassy this moment your I’s, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
2010 Peer Out to See, Palacio de Cristal, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Barbara Edwards Contemporary, Toronto
Prints and Sculpture, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont
Air Padded Table Haunches and…, CarrerasMugica, Bilbao, Spain
2009 Sailcloth Tears, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Swiss Cheese Field, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Jessica Stockholder, Robischon Gallery, Denver
Coating, Nathalie Obadia, Paris
2008 Jessica Stockholder - Lumps Bumps & Windy Figures Too, Galerie Art & Essai,
Rennes, France
Statements: Martin Barre & Jessica Stockholder, Art 39 Basel: Galerie Nathalie Obadia
2007 Jessica Stockholder, 1301 PE, Los Angeles, CA; Galerie Thomas Schulte,
Berlin, Germany
Hanging, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
2006 Jessica Stockholder, Hafnarborg, Iceland; Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York; Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
Of Standing Float Roots in Thin Air, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Space Between, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2005 Four Gummed-Up Bits of a Crepe Sole Balled Up Together with the Grimy Dirt on the Sidewalk and Stuck Dangling, but Firm, to the Bottom of the Shoe that Hangs on the Toe of the Foot under the Diving Board, Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA
Survey exhibition, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
Career survey exhibition, Blaffer Art Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Jessica Stockholder, Kissing the Wall: Works, 1988-2003, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Air Padded Table Haunches, Art Unlimited, Basel
Sculpture and prints, Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Italy
Rawhide Harangue of Aching Indices As Told By Light, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2004 Jessica Stockholder, Kissing the Wall: Works, 1988-2003, University of Houston
Sam Ran Over Sand or Sand Ran Over Sam, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX
New sculpture, Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003 Table Top Sculpture, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY
TV Tipped Toe Nail & the Green Salami, CAPC, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Jessica Stockholder Prints, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Jessica Stockholder, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
On The Spending Money Tenderly, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Trespassing: Houses x Artists, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; MAK Center for Art and Art History, Los Angeles, CA; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
2002 Quiet Stops Rattling Thin Air, Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden
Galleria Raffaela Cortese, Milan, Italy
2001 Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
2000 Vortex in the Play of Theatre with the Real Passion (for Kay Stockholder) and Pictures at an Exhibition, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Jessica Stockholder: Photography, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University,
Lewisburg, PA
1999 First Cousin Once Removed or Cinema of Brushing Skin, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
With Wanton Heed and Giddy Cunning, Hedging Red and That’s Not Funny, Center for Visual Arts, Cardiff, Wales
Studio works, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Köln, Germany
1998 Studio works, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Turning Paper, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France; Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY
Fabian Marcaccio & Jessica Stockholder, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; Works on Paper, Inc., Los Angeles
Coupling, White Cube, London, England
Torque, Jelly Role, and Goose Bump, Musée Picasso d’Antibes, Antibes, France
Nit Picking Trumpets of Iced Blue Vagueries, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes / La Salle Blanche, Nantes, France
1997 Slab of Skinned Water, Cubed Chicken & White Sauce, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Jessica Stockholder: 200 Drawings, Otis Gallery of Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
The Point of Departure: Moira Dryer & Jessica Stockholder, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS
Drawings, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany
Studio works, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany; Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
1996 Jessica Stockholder: 200 Drawings, Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Bowtied In the Middle, Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
Studio works, Studio La Città II, Verona, Italy
1995 Your Skin in this Weather Bourne Eye-Threads & Swollen Perfume, Dia Center for the Arts, New York
Studio works, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France; Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY; S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Sweet for Three Oranges, Sala Montcada de la Fundació “la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
1994 Pink Lady, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Joan Snyder and Jessica Stockholder, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
1993 Studio works, Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany
Edge of Hothouse Glass, Galerie des Arènes, Carré d’Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
1992 Sea Floor Movement to Rise of Fire Place Stripping, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
SpICE BOXed Project(ion), Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
Flower Dusted Prosies, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY
Growing Rock Candy Mountain––Grasses in Canned Sand, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
1991 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Skin Toned Garden Mapping, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Near Weather Wall and Making a Clean Edge II, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Studio works, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
UNTITLED Seepage: Sandwashed, Sundried & Shrinkwrapped, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
1990 For Mary Heilmann (With Mary Heilman), Isabella Kacprzak Galerie, Köln, Germany
Where it Happened, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
1989 Mixing Food with the Bed, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
1988 Indoor lighting for my father, Mercer Union, Toronto, ON
It’s not over til the fat lady sings, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1985 Wall Sandwich, Melinda Wyatt Gallery, New York, NY
1984 In-side out, Art Culture Resource Center, Toronto, ON