Jessica Stockholder

Approaching architectural space and scale with the formal inventiveness and speed common to gestural abstract painting, Stockholder took the art world by storm in the late 1980s.

The first half of the catalog chronicles Stockholder’s installations from 1983–1991 in 35 beautiful color plates. Accompanying the reproductions are short descriptions, authored by the artist, addressing the architectural and material choices of each installation. The second half of the catalogue contains John Miller’s essay “Formalism and Its Other”, which keenly places Stockholder’s activity somewhere between the rigorous formalism of Clement Greenberg’s critical writing and the liberating potential of Allan Kaprow’s Happenings.

The catalogue Jessica Stockholder was published in conjunction with the exhibition Saint Clair Cemin & Jessica Stockholder that took place in Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (15 June 1991 – 28 July 1991), and in The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1 October 1991 – 10 November 1991). Text in Dutch and English.

Introduction by Chris Dercon and Susanne Ghez
Texts by John Miller, “Formalism and Its Other” and Jessica Stockholder, “Installations 1983-1991″