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Jessica Stockholder Talk at the Carnegie Museum of Art

Jessica Stockholder Talk at the Carnegie Museum of Art

Carnegie Museum of Art

March 30, 2024, 2-4 PM

Join artist Jessica Stockholder in conversation with curators Liz Park and Cynthia Stucki (Carnegie Museum of Art) as well as Elizabeth Chodos (Miller ICA) on the occasion of a new installation of her sculptures at Carnegie Museum of Art as well as her recently commissioned public artwork at Carnegie Mellon University.

Interview with Artist Jessica Stockholder

Interview with Artist Jessica Stockholder

Disturbing the Meaning of Objects

September 19, 2023

We met artist Jessica Stockholder for a talk about why stuff, as she puts it, matters. "I think stuff is a better word than objects for me." Jessica Stockholder describes her work as "an intersection of pictorial experience with physical experience." Much of her work has a sculptural quality, even if it's hung up on a wall. "I work with a lot of different stuff, but it grows from painting," she explains.

Annual Artist Interview, Jessica Stockholder

Annual Artist Interview, Jessica Stockholder

College Art Association of America

March 28, 2022

On February 18, 2022, Jessica Stockholder was featured in the Annual Artists’ Interviews at CAA’s 110th Annual Conference, interviewed by Christine Mehring. See below to watch the interview in full!

Jessica Stockholder at Officine Grandi Riparazioni di Torino

Jessica Stockholder at Officine Grandi Riparazioni di Torino

Cut a rug a round square

February 11 – May 2, 2021

Thursday 11 February OGR Cult inaugurates the "Cut a rug a round square" exhibition curated by the American artist Jessica Stockholder with works from two important international philanthropic collections: the "la Caixa" Contemporary Art Collection in Barcelona, one of the most prestigious collections of banking origin, and that of the Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art CRT , whose works are on permanent loan at the Turin museums of GAM - Gallery of Modern Art and Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art.

Sarah Braman, Amanda Ross-Ho and Jessica Stockholder at Crystal Bridges

Sarah Braman, Amanda Ross-Ho and Jessica Stockholder at Crystal Bridges

Color Field

June 1 - September 30, 2019

Sarah Braman, Amanda Ross-Ho and Jessica Stockholder are included in the group show Color Field at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. 

Jessica Stockholder at the Centraal Museum

Jessica Stockholder at the Centraal Museum

Stuff Matters

April 19 - September 1, 2019

Jessica Stockholder is the subject of a solo exhibition titled Stuff Matters at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands. 

Jessica Stockholder at The Contemporary Austin

Jessica Stockholder at The Contemporary Austin

Relational Aesthetics

September 15, 2018 – March 3, 2019

Jessica Stockholder is the subject of a solo exhibition at the Jones Center at The Austin Contemporary, organized by Associate Curator Julia V. Hendrickson. 

Jessica Stockholder at CCS Bard
Exhibition | Annandale-On-Hudson, New York

Jessica Stockholder at CCS Bard

The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004)

June 23 – December 14, 2018

Jessica Stockholder is included in the group show The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004) at CCS Bard. 

Jessica Stockholder included in Another World charity postcard sale

Jessica Stockholder included in Another World charity postcard sale

Deutsche Bank Wealth Management

October 5, 2018 – October 15, 2018

Jessica Stockholder is participating in an online postcard charity sale available through Monday, October 15, at 8 pm.

Julian Stanczak & Jessica Stockholder included in the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

Julian Stanczak & Jessica Stockholder included in the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art

An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises

July 14 – September 30, 2018

Julian Stanczak and Jessica Stockholder are included in the FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art's first edition titled An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, running July 14, 2018 through September 30, 2018. 

Listen to Jessica Stockholder on Bad at Sports

Listen to Jessica Stockholder on Bad at Sports

July 24, 2018

Listen to Jessica Stokcholder in conversatino with Duncan Mackenzie on the podcast, Bad at Sports. 

Jessica Stockholder at Sammlung Goetz
Exhibition | Munich

Jessica Stockholder at Sammlung Goetz

Generations Female Artists in Dialogue Part 1

February 22 – July 13, 2018

The Sammlung Goetz celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2018 with a three-part exhibition dedicated to artistic creations by women. 

Jessica Stockholder in Parcours at Art Basel
Art Fair | Basel

Jessica Stockholder in Parcours at Art Basel

Three square on on the riverbank

June 14 – 17, 2018

Jessica Stockholder presents a new site-specific project, Three square on the riverbank, for the 2018 iteration of Parcours for Art Basel. 

Jessica Stockholder at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University
Exhibition | University Park, PA

Jessica Stockholder at the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University

PLASTIC ENTANGLEMENTS: ECOLOGY, AESTHETICS, MATERIALS

February 13 – June 17, 2018

Jessica Stockholder is included in the Palmer Museum of Art's group exhibition Plastic Entanglements, which brings together sixty works by thirty contemporary artists to explore the environmental, aesthetic, and technological entanglements of our ongoing love affair with this paradoxical, infinitely malleable substance.

Jessica Stockholder in the Regenstein Library Reading Room at the University of Chicago

Jessica Stockholder in the Regenstein Library Reading Room at the University of Chicago

Play on Surfaces & Surfing

May 17 – June 2, 2018

Three works are installed in the library where they exist in and amongst other objects that they are similar to.  Each of the works, Sorrow, Keeping Abreast, and Ceded takes as its staring point a generic desktop electronic device.

Jessica Stockholder at The 2018 Aldrich Benefit Bash

Jessica Stockholder at The 2018 Aldrich Benefit Bash

April 21, 2018

Join us at The 2018 Aldrich Benefit Bash on Saturday, April 21 from 7 to 10 pm, honoring Jessica Stockholder and chaired by Lucy Mitchell-Innes. 

Jessica Stockholder to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Jessica Stockholder to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Visual Arts and Performing Arts - Criticism and Practice

April 2018

Mitchell-Innes & Nash congratulates Jessica Stockholder on her inclusion in the 2018 Class of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

 

Jessica Stockholder at Fine Arts Center Gallery at University of Arkansas
Exhibition | Fayetteville, Arkansas

Jessica Stockholder at Fine Arts Center Gallery at University of Arkansas

Contra

November 6 – December 10, 2017

Jessica Stockholder is included in the Fine Arts Center Gallery's group exhibition Contra. 

Jessica Stockholder and Amanda Ross-Ho at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Jessica Stockholder and Amanda Ross-Ho at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

99 Cents or Less

May 19 - August 6, 2017

Jessica Stockholder and Amanda Ross-Ho are included in MOCAD's exhibition titled 99 Cents or Less, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at Large. The large-scale exhibition explores themes of consumption, globalization, labor and income inequality. 

Jessica Stockholder in Time Out New York

Jessica Stockholder in Time Out New York

Read Our Interview with Artist Jessica Stockholder

August 30, 2016

Blurring the line between painting and sculpture, Jessica Stockholder mixes found and bought objects with constructed and painted elements to a compelling effect. Although currently based in Chicago, Stockholder has exhibited frequently in various New York galleries, as well museums like the Whitney. Over the course of a 30-year career, she’s become one of the most influential artists of her generation, setting the stage for the hybrid style of sculpture and installation that dominates the art world today. Recently, the artist chatted with Time Out New York to discuss her new gallery show in Chelsea at Mitchell-Innes & Nash featuring, colorful assemblages, drawings and a large-scale, site-specific installation.

Jessica Stockholder in Conversation at Rice University
Artist Talk | Houston

Jessica Stockholder in Conversation at Rice University

April 7, 2016

RIce University Art Gallery
6100 Main St, Houston, Texas 77005
06:00 PM

Talk by former Rice Gallery artist Jessica Stockholder, whose newest public work, Color Jam Houston, is in progress as part of Art Blocks in Main Street Square in Downtown Houston. Co-sponsored by Rice University and Blaffer Art Museum. With introductions by Rice Gallery Director Kim Davenport and Blaffer Art Museum Director Claudia Schmuckli, Stockholder will discuss her current project in conversation with past projects, including her installation at Rice Gallery in 2004, and her 2004 solo exhibition at the University of Houston Blaffer Gallery: Jessica Stockholder, Kissing the Wall: Works, 1988-2003.

Reception to follow.

Jessica Stockholder featured in the Chicago Tribune

Jessica Stockholder featured in the Chicago Tribune

Bathtub or mattress, it's all art to Jessica Stockholder

October 28, 2015

Everything Jessica Stockholder touches turns to art.

Over the past three decades this has included worn-out couches, an urban intersection, refrigerator doors, a scissors lift, fresh oranges and lemons, a compact car, a mattress, a streetlight, a bathtub, a full-size freezer chest, half-a-dozen wooden dressers and a city park.

Jessica Stockholder at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Jessica Stockholder at the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Jessica Stockholder: Rose's Inclination

September 12, 2015 – July 2, 2017

In a site-specific Threshold series installation, Jessica Stockholder transforms the Smart’s lobby with a wave of color and texture that climbs to the clerestory, cuts across the floor, and travels outwards into the Museum’s sculpture garden. Rose’s Inclination makes use of ordinary materials—thrift store lamps, paint, Plexiglas, carpet, and even mulch—to “reach up and out” and vibrantly alter the physical experience of the Smart Museum’s modernist architecture.

Jessica Stockholder at L.A. Art Book Fair

Jessica Stockholder at L.A. Art Book Fair

==#2 Launch at Capricious Booth

Thursday, January 29, 6 - 9 pm

==#2 Launch @ LA Art Book Fair
Edited by Matt Keegan
Designed by Su Barber
Edition of 500

Thursday, January 29, 6–9 pm

Capricious Booth—F01
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Thursday Preview Entry,  $10
Friday—Sunday, Free

Capricious is pleased to announce the release of ==#2, made first available at the upcoming LA Art Book Fair, January 29th-February 1st, 2015.  ==#2 is a non-thematic arts publication contained in a box with a 96-page bound volume featuring artist-to-artist interviews, texts, and transcriptions. Six loose multiples are also included.

 

Jessica Stockholder at EXPO Chicago

Jessica Stockholder at EXPO Chicago

IN/SITU

September 18 - 21, 2014

IN/SITU provides exhibiting galleries the opportunity to showcase large-scale installations and site-specific works by leading artists during EXPO CHICAGO. Curated by Renaud Proch, Executive Director of Independent Curators International (ICI), the 2014 edition of the program is a reflection on artistic practice in Chicago, and on the intense exchange of ideas that the city generates.

At Navy Pier, IN/SITU is also presented alongside EXPO Projects, organized by EXPO CHICAGO and highlighting works by emerging and established artists.

This year and for the first time, IN/SITU connects to the city beyond its traditional site in Navy Pier. It now extends to IN/SITU Outside, an inaugural program of temporary public art installations situated along the Lakefront and throughout Chicago neighborhoods, presented by EXPO CHICAGO in partnership with Chicago Park District (CPD) and Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE).

Jessica Stockholder at Gary Lichtenstein Editions at Mana Contemporary

Jessica Stockholder at Gary Lichtenstein Editions at Mana Contemporary

Trees

September 14, 2014

Gary Lichtenstein Editions at Mana presents Jessica Stockholder: trees, an exhibition featuring original silkscreen monoprints created by Stockholder and Lichtenstein as a result of their collaboration on the production of Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood for The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in 2011. On view from September 14 to October 24, 2014, the exhibition is presented at Gary Lichtenstein Editions, on the second floor of Mana Contemporary.

Jessica Stockholder at Contemporary Art and Design

Jessica Stockholder at Contemporary Art and Design

September 12 - October 12, 2014

The first edition of C.Ar.D. – “Contemporary Art and Design” – inaugurates a series of exhibitions, installations and events by artists, photographers and designers in the hills around Piacenza from 12 September to 12 October 2014.

Keltie Ferris & Jessica Stockholder receive 2014 Art Awards from The Academy of Arts and Letters

Keltie Ferris & Jessica Stockholder receive 2014 Art Awards from The Academy of Arts and Letters

New York, March 17, 2014 — The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the eleven artists who will receive its 2014 awards in art. The awards will be presented in New York City in May at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial. The art prizes, totaling $112,500, honor both established and emerging artists. The award winners were chosen from a group of 37 artists who had been invited to participate in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, which opened on March 6, 2014. The Exhibition continues through April 12, 2014, and features over 120 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and works on paper. The members of this year’s award committee were: Lynda Benglis, Varujan Boghosian, Eric Fischl (Chairman), Yvonne Jacquette, Catherine Murphy, Philip Pearlstein, Judy Pfaff, Paul Resika, Dorothea Rockburne, and Terry Winters.

Jessica Stockholder at the Milan Triennale

Jessica Stockholder at the Milan Triennale

February 25 - March 23, 2014

Group exhibition, curated by Francesco Poli

Chris Johanson and Jessica Stockholder at SFMOMA

Chris Johanson and Jessica Stockholder at SFMOMA

Project Los Altos

November 9, 2013 - March 2, 2014

From November 9, 2013 through March 2, 2014, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will present Project Los Altos: SFMOMA in Silicon Valley, an exhibition sited throughout the downtown commercial core of Los Altos, a town located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Project Los Altos will be on view at indoor and outdoor locations—ranging from commercial spaces to a public intersection—and include existing artworks as well as newly commissioned, site-responsive projects. Featured artists include Jeremy Blake, Spencer Finch, Charles Garoian, Christian Jankowski, Chris Johanson, Mike Mills, Kateřina Šedá, Alec Soth, and Jessica Stockholder.

Jessica Stockholder at Art Unlimited

Jessica Stockholder at Art Unlimited

Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear

June 13 - 16, 2013

Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to invite you to visit Jessica Stockholder's installation, Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear at Art Unlimited, Booth U37. 

Sarah Braman and Jessica Stockholder at the DeCordova Museum

Sarah Braman and Jessica Stockholder at the DeCordova Museum

Paint Things

January 27 - April 14, 2013

PAINT THINGS navigates the recent direction of contemporary artists to expand painting beyond the stretcher into sculptural forms. This group exhibition focuses on the growing spatial and material freedom in painting as it merges with installation and sculpture. 

Jessica Stockholder at the Ecole Nationale Superieur d'Architecture de Nantes

Jessica Stockholder at the Ecole Nationale Superieur d'Architecture de Nantes

Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood

June 15 - September 2, 2012

Jessica Stockholder's exhibition "Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood", initially realized at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, CT, is traveling to the Ecole Nationale Superieur d'Architecture in Nantes, France. The exhibition will open on June 15th, 2012, and remain on view until September 2. For more information, please visit the website for the Frac des Pays de la Loire.

Jessica Stockholder's "Color Jam" for the Chicago Loop Alliance

Jessica Stockholder's "Color Jam" for the Chicago Loop Alliance

Color Jam

Opening June 5, 2012

Commissioned by Chicago Loop Alliance, renowned artist Jessica Stockholder has begun saturating building façades, sidewalks, and crosswalks in bold colors in what will be the summer’s largest art installation. “Color Jam” – the third public artwork in the Art Loop series – is coming to the intersection of State & Adams on June 5. It will be on display through September, and will feature a series of public programs, taking the form of concerts, talks, happenings, and virtual interactions throughout the Loop. Walk a live stream of the installation site, or the "Jam Cam", from the link to the left.

Jessica Stockholder at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Jessica Stockholder at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

Hollow Places Court in Ash-Tree Wood

June 26 - December 31, 2011

In her solo project Hollow places court in Ash-Tree Wood, Jessica Stockholder has made several works from the wood of a 125-year-old ash tree that formerly grew in the Aldrich’s sculpture garden. The exhibition includes several discrete sculptural works within a site-responsive installation. The major elements in the exhibition are two large freestanding sculptures that resemble folding screens. Fabricated from boards cut from the wood of the tree, they were conceived by Stockholder as static armatures that she will activate with various types of paint, from auto lacquer to acrylic, visually suggesting walls (or a gallery) filled with pictures. The forms represented reference eyes (among other things), mirroring the viewer’s gaze and suggesting both the accumulated experience of the tree and the fleeting experience of the viewer.

Jessica Stockholder at Laumeier Sculpture Park

Jessica Stockholder at Laumeier Sculpture Park

Grab grassy this moment your I's

February 12 – May 29, 2011

Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis presents an exhibition of recent sculpture by Jessica Stockholder. The exhibition, which opens February 12, features eleven sculptures full of quirks and unexpected materials. Stockholder’s work engages elements of painting, sculpture and architecture with objects more commonly found in backyards and living rooms. Her playful nature is reflected in the name of the exhibition, Grab grassy this moment your I’s. The title offers an abstract grammatical puzzle emblematic of her work that strives to change how we see common objects and materials. The exhibition includes Stockholder’s work, Flooded Chambers Maid, 2009-10, installed in Laumeier’s Children’s Sculpture Garden in October 2010. The long-term loan was commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, was previously exhibited in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park. The work will provide a platform for future performances, readings and children’s programs.

Jessica Stockholder at Palacio de Cristal

Jessica Stockholder at Palacio de Cristal

Peer Out to See

July 14, 2010 - April 25, 2011

Jessica Stockholder Peer out to See July 14, 2010 – February, 2011 Parque del Buen Retiro, Palacio de Cristal

Jessica Stockholder's first museum exhibition in Spain will take open July 14 at the Palacio de Cristal of the Reina Sofia Museum.

The Jewel Thief at the Tang Museum

The Jewel Thief at the Tang Museum

Co-curated by Jessica Stockholder and Ian Berry

Sep 18, 2010 - Feb 27, 2011

The Jewel Thief will combine works by over fifty contemporary artists with eccentric arrangements to explore new ways to think about and experience abstract art. Through experiments with scale, color, material, and space, the exhibition will create an immersive environment that raises questions about art and display and enables fresh takes on the specific works.

Jessica Stockholder's 'Jewel Thief' in the New York Times

Jessica Stockholder's 'Jewel Thief' in the New York Times

The Tang Museum at Skidmore College

New Sparkle for an Abstract Ensemble By HOLLAND COTTER SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — In the echo chamber that is the New York art world, where one voice can give the illusion of being many, the crusading cry of late is “We need more painting!” As if there were a dearth. Is there? Walk through any of the city’s art museums, and what do see? Paintings everywhere. Visit contemporary galleries all over town, and what do you find? They’re painting packed. But still the cry goes on.

Jessica Stockholder at Carreras Mugica

Jessica Stockholder at Carreras Mugica

Air Padded Table Haunches, and...

January 15 - February 26, 2010

Mitchell-Innes & nash is pleased to announce Jessica Stockholder's installation "Air Padded Table Haunches, and..." at Carreras Mugica

Jessica Stockholder at the Denver Art Museum

Jessica Stockholder at the Denver Art Museum

Embrace!

On view through April 4, 2010

Mitchell-Innes & Nash is pleased to announce Jessica Stockholder in Embrace! at the Denver Art Museum, on view through April 4, 2010. Stockholder's installation "Wide Eyes Smeared Here Dear " is on view within the architecture of the Frederic C. Hamilton building.

Jessica Stockholder at Madison Square Park

Jessica Stockholder at Madison Square Park

Flooded Chambers Maid

May 1 - August 15, 2009

JESSICA STOCKHOLDER

FLOODED CHAMBERS MAID

MAY 1 - AUGUST 15, 2009 The Madison Square Park Conservancy continues its 2009 season of Mad. Sq. Art with Flooded Chambers Maid, a site-specific multimedia installation on and around Madison Square Park's Oval Lawn by genre-bending sculptor, painter and installation artist Jessica Stockholder.

Jessica Stockholder in the New York Times

Jessica Stockholder in the New York Times

Go Ahead, Play With (and on) the Art

June 14, 2009 Go Ahead, Play With (and on) the Art By CAROL KINO

Jessica Stockholder at P.S.1

Jessica Stockholder at P.S.1

Of Standing Float Roots in Thin Air

February 2 - May 1, 2006

EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE JESSICA STOCKHOLDER: OF STANDING FLOAT ROOTS IN THIN AIR February 2, 2006 through May 1, 2006 P.S.1 Opening Day Celebration: February 26, 2006 from noon to 6 (Long Island City, New York – January 20, 2006) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is pleased to present a new solo project by Jessica Stockholder, her second presentation at the museum.