Jessica Stockholder has long broken down the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture to explore the body in social and cultural space – using found objects intertwined with profusions of vivid colours.
The survey, by US art critic and poet Barry Schwabsky, examines the evolution of Stockholder’s work since the 1980s; New York novelist Lynne Tillman and Stockholder take the reader on a guided tour through pictorial space; Lynne Cooke, Curator for the DIA Centre for the Arts and Artistic Director for the 1996 Sydney Biennial, looks in-depth at a single installation. Further insight into Stockholder’s practice is revealed through her selection of texts by psychologist Julian Jaynes and philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis.