Untitled

Contemporary Art

1996

Jessica Stockholder
American, born 1959

Since the 1980s, Jessica Stockholder has engaged in an ongoing dialogue about the possibilities of painting and the pictorial potential of sculpture with idiosyncratic pairings of found materials, architecture, and broad swaths of paint in vibrant colors. Called “the reigning queen of the found object”, Stockholder “gives a single bare light bulb a classic purity and a crumpled parasol the weight of withdrawal.” Her pioneering site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as “paintings in space.”

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Contemporary Art

Artist: Jessica Stockholder
Title: Untitled
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1996
Medium: Acrylic paint, oil paint on glass, wooden shingles, wire mesh, green wire, hardware, acrylic yarn, scarf, thread, and silicone caulking
Dimensions: 180.3 × 121.9 × 73.6 cm (71 × 48 × 29 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Society for Contemporary Art
Reference Number: 1996.398

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