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Jessica Stockholder

American Artist

Born: 1959

Bit Color Edges How Love Work

Related authors: Andy Warhol Jackson Pollock Jean-Michel Basquiat Jeff Koons Kehinde Wiley Keith Haring Yoko Ono

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

Work Generation Culture Value Looking Our Alienated Way Evidence Complex See My Generation Something New Like Also Making Hand Effort Handmade Hands Artists Common Place Which Acknowledging While Younger Thing Things

It doesn't matter what I use. It can be anything. What's interesting is how what I'm doing meets with the stuff I use. Jessica Stockholder

Matter Meets Stuff How Doing Anything Interesting Use

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making. Jessica Stockholder

Work Picture Consider Kind Suppose Making

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities. Jessica Stockholder

Love Painting Way Possibilities Full

I don't have assistants and things in the studio. Jessica Stockholder

Studio Things Assistants

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible. Jessica Stockholder

Work Relationship Situation Possible Response Limitations Any

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

Focus Edge Changes Focused Attention Shifts Necessarily

I think what kids do is play. Jessica Stockholder

Think Kids Play

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

Work Time Culture Long Long Time Live Our Way Embodies Easy Some Classical Some Things Part Long Time Ago Material Inexpensive Quick Very Very Long Time While Really Means Production Even Things

I don't fetishize objects. Jessica Stockholder

Objects

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails. Jessica Stockholder

Skin Painting Plumbing Wiring Nails Houses Fiction Paint

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