30.7 × 22.8 in
in
cm
$6,500
In this mixed-media collage, contemporary artist Jessica Stockholder pairs bright planes of brilliant oranges interrupted by cut shapes, glitter, and oil drawings and smudges. These floating geometric fields evoke the effect of assemblages of found objects. Stockholder is known for her immersive mixed-media installations that play with the boundaries between viewer and the art object. In this mixed-media collage, you can see these same themes evoked on a two-dimensional surface. This unique work on paper demonstrates Stockholder’s skillful technique and thoughtful investigation of pictorial boundaries.
| Medium | Works on paper |
| Signature | Signed |
| Frame | Unframed |
| Condition | excellent |
| Seller | Private |
| Location | Vancouver, Canada |
| Provenance | The Artist; Private Collection, Vancouver (gift from above). |
Jessica Stockholder is known for her immersive mixed-media installations that play with the boundaries between viewer and the art object. Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but ultimately adheres to formal decisions about color and composition. Stockholder’s installations, sculptures, and collages evoke a sense of shifting polarities between abstraction and realism, and conscious thought versus unconscious desire. She is a pioneer in creating a distinct visual language that transcends artistic disciplines. Taking the principles of assemblage first championed by artists such as Kurt Schwitters and Robert Rauschenberg, Stockholder’s work is often made from everyday elements and objects, such as thrift store castoffs and cheap store-bought goods, textiles, yarn and even building supplies. These ensembles defamiliarize their individual parts to create a new visual language where one can play with a myriad of associative meanings.
Born in Seattle, Washington in 1959, Scher grew up in Vancouver. She studied privately with Canadian artist Nora Blank and Mowry Baden before enrolling in the BFA program at the University of Victoria. She later studied painting at the University of British Columbia and received an MFA from Yale University in 1985. During this time, Stockholder became known for her sculptures and site-specific installations, which she calls “situations.” which have an important history in modern art. Her site-specific installations and two-dimensional works, which Art21 describes as “paintings in space,” push the boundaries between art and life.
A recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a John Solomon Guggenheim Fellowship Award for Visual Art. In 2007, Stockholder received the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Her work has been exhibited at Dia Center for the Arts, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City; SITE Santa Fe; the Venice Biennale; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; among others.
The artist’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Goetz Collection in Munich, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Musée National d’Art Moderne Centre Pompidou, and the Satchi & Satchi collection, among others.
Jessica Stockholder served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at Yale University and is currently the head of the visual arts faculty at the University of Chicago, where she lives and works.
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