Jessica Stockholder: Becoming An Artist

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Art21 first featured artist Jessica Stockholder in 2005
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Channels: American ArtContemporary Art
Artists: Jessica Stockholder
Themes: Becoming / Being an ArtistChildhood

Exclusive Episode #072: Artist Jessica Stockholder recounts her earliest memories of wanting to become an artist while she and her son Charlie paint and draw in the basement of their home in New Haven, Connecticut.

A pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations, Jessica Stockholders site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as "paintings in space." Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but closer observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control.

Learn more about Jessica Stockholder: http://www.art21.org/artists/jessica-stockholder

Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Jessica Stockholder. Special Thanks: Charles Pippin Chamberlain

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00:00:13 I don’t think I ever said to myself consciously, I am going to be an artist. I just said about it.

00:00:19 This is my mixing jar.

00:00:21 I see.

00:00:23 And I remember when I was 14, I took drawing lessons from Mowry Baden who is a sculpture on the West Cost and a friend of my dad's and I asked my dad for drawing lessons

00:00:33 and he said Oh Mowry might be able to give you drawing lessons.

00:00:35 Have fun.

00:00:36 Okay.

00:00:38 And I just said about sort of taking it seriously and making a drawing everyday and making a painting everyday, I don’t know why and it wasn’t very conscious.

00:00:54 My mother used to paint. Well, she painted briefly when I was I think five, six, seven, eight. She was paint, making easel paintings, and I used to paint next to her

00:01:04 and my dad had a project going in the basement where we would all go down and draw on the floor on this big piece of cardboard

00:01:19 and I always loved art class in school, but I don’t, it's odd that I don’t remember any moment of, I don’t remember thinking I was going be an artist.

00:01:31 I just set about doing it. I find that a little odd.