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Jessica Stockholder

I don’t fetishize objects.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

Things have character. So I’m interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn’t a narrative.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that’s part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it’s classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

I think what kids do is play.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

My idea is to fill an intersection with color. That will include the road and the sidewalk and up the building, so there’s a cubic volume of color in the intersection wedged between four corners and four buildings.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new to my generation. There’s an effort to value the evidence of the hand and the handmade thing while also acknowledging the way in which the making of things with hands has such a complex, alienated place in our culture.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects of the work; they are its ground.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct, whole pictures and objects.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the city and the daylight.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

I don’t have assistants and things in the studio.

– Jessica Stockholder

Jessica Stockholder

I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.

– Jessica Stockholder

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