Jessica Stockholder, Untitled/IPCNY

Available for “Adoption” through the Adopt an Artwork Program

This mixed media work by Jessica Stockholder was purchased by the Permanent Collection in 2009. Due to the weight of the materials used by the artist and a frame that was too shallow, the Japanese paper hinges adhering the piece had mostly detached or were loose and the artwork was in contact with the inside face of the plexiglas. The hinges will be replaced with a combination of Japanese paper tabs and Velcro. The print will then be reframed in a deeper, aluminum frame with Optium Museum Acrylic glazing and archival backing. The cost for this treatment and reframing is $1,360.

“Stockholder is a pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations that have become a prominent language in contemporary art. Her site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as “paintings in space.” Stockholder’s complex installations incorporate the architecture in which they have been conceived, blanketing the floor, scaling walls and ceiling, and even spilling out of windows, through doors, and into the surrounding landscape. Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but close observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control.” (source: Art: 21, PBS.org) 

Stockholder was director and professor of graduate studies in sculpture at Yale University from 1999 to 2011. She was faculty chair of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago from 2011 to 2018, and is currently the director of graduate studies.