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Title[JS 498]
Artist
Jessica Stockholder
(American-Canadian, b. 1959)
Date2010
MediumWooden tables, glass balls, orange rubberized cushion, vinyl sheet, tulle, oil paint and hardware
DimensionsOverall: 52 1/2 x 28 x 25 in.
Storage (packed C-bin): 30 × 24 3/4 × 48 in.
SubmissionNA diploma presentation
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number2014.6
Label TextJessica Stockholder is one of the most influential American sculptors working today. Through her use of disparate materials including furniture, fruit, toys, automobiles, laundry baskets, curtains, and construction materials (to name a few), her work collapses the traditional distinctions made between painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture, instead embracing the chaotic milieu of contemporary life. Stockholder has said that her work "aims to glimpse the chaotic fullness of meaning generated moment to moment all the time. At the same time it acknowledges the condensed outline of meaning that accumulates around objects and symbols. It maintains an openness to possibilities not yet engaged, and posits eccentricity as a great strength." [JS 498] embodies Stockholder's ongoing investigation of the relationship between abstraction, material concreteness, and the body's relation to space. While we recognize these objects in a quotidian sense - tables, a cushion, some glass balls - Stockholder employs her signature use of formal color and spatial configurations to disrupt this, highlighting our subjective perspective of the world around us.
