An untitled work by
Jessica Stockholder
1997, 65 inches high
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jessica stockholder
at jay gorney
Apr. 5-May 10, 1997
Sculptor Jessica Stockholder
chooses her materials -- household
plastic items and the like -- with
a large dose of humor. But the
work she produces proves to be a
serious endeavor whereby solids in
space take on the attributes of
more mutable substances such as
liquids or gases. The six recent
untitled large-scale works on view
in this show are as much about the
interchangeableness of earth, air
and water as they are about the
dissolution of the barriers
dividing painting and sculpture.
In one work, she attaches to the
wall rectangular plastic forms
painted red, pink, green and
yellow. Hanging nearby, a circular
gray panel resembles a mirror.
This form is loosely connected by
a metal chain to a bunch of long-handled
scoops of bright orange
plastic that rest on the floor
near a blue plastic toilet
plunger. The scoops act as a
unifying agent as they incite a
rather shrill and intense
correspondence among all of the
components of the piece. In this
work, and in all of the other
sculptures on view, Stockholder
achieves a super-fluidity of
volume, color and texture that has
by now become the hallmark of her
art.
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