Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented with distinct, whole pictures and objects. — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially the subjects… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things with hands… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible. — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails. — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. There's a discomfort associated with… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people and the… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any single finished point for a work. It's done when something's happening with the work that feels like a balanced,… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before we touched… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a narrative. — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from a tree… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
