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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Jessica Stockholder, Cranking Devil’s Advocacy, 2017

Jessica Stockholder USA, b. 1959

Cranking Devil’s Advocacy, 2017
White printer, silicone cupcake sleeves, fake fur, oil paint, hardware, small shelf
34 x 32 x 16 in
86.4 x 81.3 x 40.6 cm
6778
Jessica Stockholder (b. 1959, USA) is an internationally acclaimed visual artist and educator who lives and works in Chicago. Her public artworks have been commissioned by museums, municipalities, and corporations...
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Jessica Stockholder (b. 1959, USA) is an internationally acclaimed visual artist and educator who lives and works in Chicago. Her public artworks have been commissioned by museums, municipalities, and corporations around the world.

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.

Artist Biography:
Stockholder’s work is in the permanent collections of LACMA, The British Museum, London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Saatchi & Saatchi Collection, London, AlbrightKnox Art Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and many others. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Recent exhibitions include Jessica Stockholder: Stuff Matters, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, Denver Art Museum, CO, Beyond the Pale: Material Possibilities, Neuberger Museum of Art, NY, Jessica Stockholder: Your Skin in this Weather Bourne Eye-Threads and Swol - len Perfume, Dia:Chelsea, NY, Jessica Stockholder: Flooded Chambers Maid, Madison Square Park, NY, and the 2004 Whitney Biennial. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Anonymous Was A Woman grant, and Smithsonian Lucelia Artist Award.
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Idea Sale, Kavi Gupta, 2019
Chicago, IL
United States

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