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Laumeier Sculpture Park Acquires Jessica Stockholder Artwork

The Laumeier Sculpture Park is showing Flooded Chambers Maid, 2009-2010, a work by Jessica Stockholder, on view in the Children’s Sculpture Garden.

Jessica Stockholder is a sculptor and installation artist whose work has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe.

Jessica Stockholder is a conceptual artist born in Seattle, Washington in 1959. She studied painting at the University of Victoria in Victoria, Canada, and received an MFA from Yale University. In 2010 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Emily Carr College of Art. She is a pioneer of installation art, which mixes everyday consumer and household objects with high art traditions. Her works are often named after literary or theatrical works, and she is seen as having influenced a generation of artists.

Stockholder currently works as a director and professor of graduate studies in sculpture at Yale University. Her work has been exhibited at Dia Center for the Arts, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; P.S. 1, New York; SITE Santa Fe; the Venice Biennale; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen; and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. – Wikipedia.org

Laumeier Sculpture Park expands the context of contemporary sculpture beyond the traditional confines of a museum. It is Laumeier’s mission to initiate a lifelong process of cultural awareness, enrich lives, and inspire creative thinking by engaging people in experiences of sculpture and nature simultaneously.

Loan courtesy of the Madison Square Park Conservancy, Jessica Stockholder and Mitchell-Innes & Nash.

Image: Jessica Stockholder, Flooded Chambers Maid

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