Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder is an installation artist who does site relate work. She received her MFA from Yale University and studied painting at the University of British Columbia. Her work has been shown in both the United State and Europe.
She is of the first artists to genre-bend in installation art, which has become a big part of art in the current culture. She has a mixture of installation and painting. Stockholder has a style in which she goes beyond her given space and extend outwards beyond the installation itself. I like the bright colors and bold style of her installation, though I do feel that there are some pieces that are a bit boring in their construction.


I like this piece mostly because of it's largeness and use of color. The points of the fabric seems to resemble a mountain range in my eyes. The items to the right of the image seem like a pile of rubble from the mountains. The light cast from the ceiling also plays nicely with the folds of the fabric.










This is one of her pieces that I find a bit boring. I find the layout to have a disconnect between the two sides. I do like the use of the varied colors. I can't get out of my mind that the part in front looks like legos.









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http://blog.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/stockholder.jpg
http://blog.art21.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/stockholder.jpg
http://www.art21.org/files/images/stockholder-install2-002.jpg