Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood at The Aldrich
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Jessica Stockholder, Hollow Places Fat and Hollow Places Thin, 2011, sculptures, dimensions variable, American ash wood, paint, plywood. Hollow Places Fat and Hollow Places Thin were made in collaboration with Clifford Moran. All works courtesy of the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Photo: Jessica Stockholder.
Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood
Date: June 26 to December 31, 2011
Place: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
In the spring of 2009, The Aldrich cut down a 100-year-old ash tree in its sculpture garden. Sculptor Jessica Stockholder, not primarily known for working with natural materials, has collaborated with local cabinetmaker Clifford Moran to utilize the wood from the tree to create a new installation that will be seen in two of The Aldrich’s galleries. Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood connects her continuing interest in ephemeral abstraction with the solidity, continuity of place, and sense of time that trees represent. The major elements in the exhibition are two large freestanding sculptures that resemble folding screens. Fabricated from boards cut from the wood of the tree, they were conceived by Stockholder as static armatures that she will activate with various types of paint, from auto lacquer to acrylic, visually suggesting walls (or a gallery) filled with pictures. The forms represented reference eyes (among other things), mirroring the viewer’s gaze and suggesting both the accumulated experience of the tree and the fleeting experience of the viewer.
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Interview: Jessica Stockholder in conversation about Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood
Peer Out to See at Palacio de Cristal, Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid
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Jessica Stockholder. Peer Out to See, 2010, site-specific installation at Palacio de Cristal, Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid. Photo: Jessica Stockholder.
Peer Out to See
Date: July 14, 2010 - April 25, 2011
Place: Palacio de Cristal, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid
Visual-verbal puns and rhymes abound in Jessica Stockholder’s vibrant art. As things that once seemed familiar and ordinary take on new life, mirroring, echoing and dialoguing with each other in their unlikely new roles, they become imposing, assertive, cheeky, sly, teasing, alluring, whimsical and much more. Never, however, are they routinely pedestrian. Stockholder’s world is composed more by association than by conventional forms of analysis. Her works propose that, if we want to examine something, we need to scrutinize, probe, and scan carefully in an intent reading than goes beyond mere glancing and glimpsing: by peering out in this fashion we might, of course, see more than we bargained for: we might end up walking the plank, suspended on a platform above the depths, launched into the unknown – on a pier out at sea.
Grab grassy this moment your I's at Laumeier Sculpture Park
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Jessica Stockholder, Flooded Chambers Maid, 2009-10, mixed media installation, dimensions variable, commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy, courtesy of the Madison Square Park Conservancy, Jessica Stockholder and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York. Photo: Mike Venso / Laumeier Sculpture Park
Grab grassy this moment your I's
Date: February 11, 2011 - May 29, 2011
Place: Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Laumeier Sculpture Park presents an exhibition of recent sculpture by Jessica Stockholder. The exhibition, which opens February 12, features eleven sculptures full of quirks and unexpected materials. Stockholder’s work engages elements of painting, sculpture and architecture with objects more commonly found in backyards and living rooms. Her playful nature is reflected in the name of the exhibition, Grab grassy this moment your I’s. The title offers an abstract puzzle emblematic of her work that strives to change how we see common objects and materials.
Artist Jessica Stockholder to join University of Chicago faculty, chair Department of Visual Arts
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Jessica Stockholder, an artist whose work has transformed the traditional conception of sculpture, will join the University of Chicago faculty as a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts (DOVA) in the Humanities and in the College and as chair of DOVA. Her appointment takes effect July 1.
Stockholder's appointment comes as the University prepares for the opening of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, which will house DOVA, as well as studio, teaching, rehearsal, and performance space for several arts programs on campus. Stockholder said the University's lively intellectual atmosphere, as well as the building of the Logan Center, were key factors in her decision to join the faculty.