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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 ArtistObjects

Exclusive Episode #096: From her home in New Haven, Connecticut, Jessica Stockholder discusses the strength of form and the difficulty in articulating the meaning behind abstract shapes.

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 at: http://www.art21.org/artists/jessica-stockholder

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco and Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Jessica Stockholder.

how about stockholder? she's local.....

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00:00:10 This might be finished. This might be finished. This one isn’t finished, something else has to happen here.

00:00:17 This isn’t finished. You know I am not happy with the way this painting is. You know, it’s hard to say why.

00:00:29 It’s really hard to say what abstract shapes mean, but they do mean something. People sometimes think that formalism is a, he or she is a formalist

00:00:43 that is thrown at different artists means that the work is meaningless, empty. Well form means everything. We don’t make anything or think anything outside of a form

00:00:54 and form is also beautiful. It’s intensely beautiful, but it’s hard to be articulate about why and I think it’s a little bit like watching people play the piano. Obviously, people’s fingers learn how to play the piano.

00:01:11 They don’t sit and think about each note and working with color and form and shape in the way that I am working, I know what I am doing at some level.

00:01:22 Both physically and conceptually, there is a kind of thinking process that goes on that I can’t tell you about. It’s not like you know I can’t think about each and everyone of those little tiny decisions

00:01:35 and put words to it and still work. There is a lot going on that just has to you know you have to just go with it and trust that it is significant. I do.