Jessica Stockholder

I think what kids do is play.

— Jessica Stockholder

I am more interested in asking questions about the edges of things and thoughts. So the objects I use are not initially…

— Jessica Stockholder

Handmade things tend to be so expensive that only a small part of the population can afford them. And yet making things…

— Jessica Stockholder

I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral…

— Jessica Stockholder

I work in response to the limitations of any situation and in relationship to what's possible.

— Jessica Stockholder

Paint is the skin of a painting: it is fiction. In houses, it disguises the plumbing and wiring and studs and nails.

— Jessica Stockholder

I feel a bit like a magpie attracted to shiny things.

— Jessica Stockholder

Your hands learn to do things that you could spend a whole day trying to write about and articulate. There's a discomfort…

— Jessica Stockholder

I suppose I consider my work a kind of picture making.

— Jessica Stockholder

In a park, you are not working with studio materials or a flat piece of paper. You have grass and the people…

— Jessica Stockholder

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…

— Jessica Stockholder

There's something about materials like copper, woods, stone, trees, shells. You walk outside and these materials are part of the world before…

— Jessica Stockholder

Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a…

— Jessica Stockholder

I don't fetishize objects.

— Jessica Stockholder

The very formal, beautiful, composed order that I make with paint and color is freighted with objects, but like leaves falling from…

— Jessica Stockholder

Pictures often sit inside of pictures, but the edges of pictures and objects are rarely subjected to serious challenge; we are presented…

— Jessica Stockholder

It doesn't matter what I use. It can be anything. What's interesting is how what I'm doing meets with the stuff I…

— Jessica Stockholder

I don't have assistants and things in the studio.

— Jessica Stockholder

Looking at younger artists, like Varda Caivano and Kerstin Bratsch, I see that their work has something in common that is new…

— Jessica Stockholder

I make things complicated for myself and chaotic, so I feel unsettled, and then the challenge is to make something structured and…

— Jessica Stockholder

I love the way painting is so full of illusionistic possibilities.

— Jessica Stockholder

My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work…

— Jessica Stockholder

My idea is to fill an intersection with color. That will include the road and the sidewalk and up the building, so…

— Jessica Stockholder

Focused attention necessarily has an edge, but as focus changes, the edge shifts.

— Jessica Stockholder