American - Artist | 1959 -
Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.
Jessica Stockholder
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Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands is such an essential part of being human.
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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.
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The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from a tree onto a lawnmower below, the edges of this 'thing' have a certain serendipity.
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I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.
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I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.
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I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.
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I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.
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I don't have assistants and things in the studio.
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I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and complete emerge from that.
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I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.
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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.
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