Jessica Stockholder, Four Eyes, 2019
Jessica Stockholder
DIGITAL THOUGHTS
18 January - 14 March 2020
1301PE is pleased to announce it’s third exhibition with Jessica Stockholder. Beginning with a love of color and abstraction Stockholder’s groundbreaking work for more than 30 years has merged every day objects into painterly sculptural forms while subverting our ideas regarding what is worthwhile or worthless.
In selecting works for Digital Thoughts, Stockholder expressed her thoughts on the digital beginning with its definition:
Digital: Adjective 1 (of signals or data) expressed as series of the digits 0 & 1. 2 (of a clock or watch) showing the time by means of displayed digits rather than hands or a pointer. 3 relating to a finger or fingers. (which do point). She continues: The relationship between the machine made and the handmade are mixed up in this work. Digital thought is stored in many different physical places. In metal computer boxes, in the Cloud which is itself supported by metal boxes, wires, and bits and pieces of plastic, scattered throughout the landscape in places not often pointed to. Digital thoughts are coded pieces of information that are in themselves abstract – abstracted from the things that they point at. The work in this exhibition is at once tangible, haptic, sensuous, and physically in support of many different kinds of disembodied abstraction. Thought, which feels disembodied though it occurs inside the body of each one of us is generated by the confluence of physical event in each work, and amongst them in the room.
Digital Thoughts features new wall installations and freestanding works composed of different materials and forms that shape a colorful composition and form a cohesive oeuvre.
Jessica Stockholder was born in 1959 in Seattle, Washington and currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. She has exhibited widely in museums and galleries internationally including: Solo exhibitions include Dia Center for the Arts and P.S.1, New York, NY; The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL; Power Plant, Toronto, ON; Kunsthalle Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, DK. Selected group exhibitions include SITE Santa Fe and The Whitney Biennial. Her work is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago; MOCA, Los Angeles; SF MoMA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The British Museum, London; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Recent solo museum exhibitions include Stuff Matters at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht and Relational Aesthetics at The Contemporary Austin. Stockholder’s major installation “White Light Laid Frozen” is included in MOCA’s The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection until January 20, 2020.
For additional information please contact Susan Sherrick or Brian Butler at 323.938.5822
