2003
Blue glass lamp, blue plastic bin, small gold coffee table with glass top,
plywood, silver lamp, aluminum/tar flashing, acrylic paint, fake fur
45.5 x 46 x 36 in
115.6 x 116.8 x 91.4 cm
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About Jessica Stockholder
(Excerpted
from Kissing the Wall)
Born in Seattle,
Washington, and trained at Yale University, Jessica Stockholder creates
architectural scenarios and sculptural assemblages of a highly pictorial
quality. Her work fuses found objects—ranging from construction materials to
furniture and textiles, as well as everyday discarded household items.
Stockholder’s work challenges the distinction between painting and
sculpture, object and environment, decorative beauty and practical use. Her
series of freestanding assemblages begun in 1988 with Kissing the Wall
aesthetically inscribe themselves somewhere between home and Home Depot by
introducing an air of animated domesticity and privacy into the anonymity of
the gallery. Physically and emotionally engaging, they are exuberant visual
essays on notions of private and public spheres and the conflation of
private and public consumption. |
