Pucker. Five new works and three editioned pieces
Pucker
Dieu Donne Papermill is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Jessica
Stockholder entitled Pucker featuring new artwork produced during the
artist's 2004 Lab Grant residency at Dieu Donne Papermill. The show will
feature five unique artworks and three editioned pieces. There will be a
reception for the artist on Thursday, March 3rd from 6 to 8pm.
Known for her installations that integrate an array of materials, textures
and colors, Jessica Stockholder worked at Dieu Donne Papermill with Dieu
Donne Artistic Director Paul Wong to produce a body of innovative works in
handmade paper possessing the vibrant palette and multidimensional
qualities characteristic of her sculptural work. To create these
multi-layered works, Stockholder capitalized on the adaptable qualities
inherent in the papermaking medium by embedding photographs and fabric
into the wet sheets and pressing objects onto the surfaces to create
imprints. Stockholder often bridged the layers of collage elements by
adding layers of pigmented pulp paint. Furthermore, the incorporation of
found materials combined with the different types and layers of pulps used
caused the paper to dry so that it puckers around certain elements,
lending a tactility that Stockholder's work often possesses. In Tape
Measure Square, Stockholder created a base sheet duo-toned in pink and
blue and built up multiple layers of shapes and imagery: a blue pulp
painted grid, a translucent oval hovering over the grid, an embedded photo
of a red cooler with an electrical cord and tape measure, and yellow and
red paper pulp squares collaged on top. This layering process and cockling
that radiates from the center of the work lends dimension and an
expressive sense of movement to this and many of the works in the
exhibition.
In the catalogue essay that accompanies the exhibition Faye Hirsch writes,
"Vibrant, pulsating color is the overriding impression conveyed by the
several dozen works that Jessica Stockholder made during her Dieu Donné
Lab Grant residency. Paper pulp holds hues in a very special way; having
absorbed the pigments into its very stuff-literally, dissolved and
reconstituted fabric-the resulting work is saturated with color, which can
be so vivid that it conveys the impression of something almost purely
optical that hovers in our field of vision. A certain material vagueness
in pigmented paper pulp thus seems ideal for Stockholder, who has always
enjoyed the erasure of distinctions: between gross matter and art,
composition and formlessness, narrative and abstraction, sculpture and
painting."
As a culmination of Stockholder's Lab Grant residency, Dieu Donne
published number 7 of its Lab Grant publication series that includes an
essay by Faye Hirsch of Art in America. Copies are available upon
request.
JESSICA STOCKHOLDER [b. 1959, Seattle, WA] received a BFA from the
University of Victoria in British Columbia and an MFA in sculpture from
Yale University. She has shown extensively in the US and abroad. A career
survey of her work, organized by the Blaffer Gallery in Houston, TX is
travelling the US and currently being shown at the Weatherspoon Art
Gallery in North Carolina. Her work is featured in numerous public
collections including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Saatchi
and Saatchi Collection, London, UK; and the Whitney Museum of Art, New
York, NY. Stockholder is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash and
currently lives and works in New Haven, CT where she is both a professor
and Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at Yale University.
Founded in 1976, Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc. is an artist workspace
dedicated to the creation, promotion, and preservation of contemporary
art using the hand papermaking process. In support of this mission, Dieu
Donne collaborates with artists and partners with the professional visual
arts community.
Dieu Donne Papermill
433 Broome Street New York, NY 10013
Gallery hours are Thursday through Saturday, 12 - 6 pm.