2003
Black plastic composting base,green plastic contatiners,pink wooden box,plywood,plastic clamp,fabric,fake fur,aluminum/tar flashing,plastic robot toy,acrylic and oil paint
42.5 x 20 x 27 in

108 x 50.8 x 68.6 cm

About the Catalogue

Jessica Stockholder, Kissing the Wall: Works, 1988-2003
Nancy Doll and Terrie Sultan with essays by Elspeth Carruthers and Miwon Kwon 

Jessica Stockholder Art Available From Distributed Art Publishers

Published in conjunction with Jessica Stockholder, Kissing the Wall: Works, 1988-2003, co-organized by Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, this is the first publication to take an in-depth look at Stockholder’s career from the late 1980s onward, beginning with the seminal piece from which exhibition and catalogue take their name. In an interview with Stockholder, Terrie Sultan and Nancy Doll, curators of the exhibition, explore the new direction Stockholder’s work has taken in 2003 with the creation of free-standing sculpture. Together they explore the significance of this “breaking away” from the wall, and the creation of a “situation” in the larger context of her work. Medievalist Elspeth Carruthers reveals in her essay the close relationship between Stockholder’s sprawling installations and medieval modes of mapping space and time. Art Historian Miwon Kwon takes this opportunity to revisit Rosalind Krauss’s essay “Sculpture in the Expanded Field” (1979) and rethink Krauss’ ideas in the context of Jessica Stockholder’s work. The catalogue also features an annotated chronology, and selected exhibition and publication histories.

About the Authors

Nancy M. Doll is Director of the Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and author of One Word: Plastic (Greensboro, NC: Weatherspoon Art Museum, 2003).

Terrie Sultan is Director and Chief Curator of Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. Her publications include Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003) and Donald Lipski: A Brief History of Twine (New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2000).

Elspeth Carruthers is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Illinois–Chicago. Her scholarly interests are in medieval agriculture, law, cartography, and environmental history.

Miwon Kwon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at UCLA. She is the author of One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002).

2003
Sheetrock box, five plastic containers, papier mâché, red plastic box, red rope, fabric, coffee table
71 x 45 x 80 in
180.3 x 114.3 x 203.2 cm

2003
Plywood, shower curtain, plastic tray, papier mâché,
plastic, plastic child's chair, three plastic containers
15 x 50 x 32 in
38.1 x 127 x 81.3 cm