{"id":102,"date":"2018-03-22T23:51:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T06:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/?p=102"},"modified":"2018-03-22T23:51:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T06:51:06","slug":"jessica-stockholder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/2018\/03\/22\/jessica-stockholder\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Stockholder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American artist Jessica Stockholder currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois as Chair of the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago. \u00a0She was born in Seattle, Washington in 1959 and studied painting at the Emily Carr before receiving her MFA from Yale University. She is a sculptor and installation artist that has had exhibitions in her home country of the USA, as well as throughout Europe. The website <a href=\"https:\/\/art21.org\/artist\/jessica-stockholder\/\">Art21<\/a> calls her work &#8220;energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic.&#8221; \u00a0Her installations often challenge the boundaries of their sites &#8211; moving beyond the windows and doors, incorporating the architecture in unique ways by scaling the walls and carpeting the floors. \u00a0She has a particular fondness for colour and the use of unusual everyday objects as materials, some examples being bowling balls, laundry baskets and bales of hay. \u00a0She cites many artists as being inspirational to her development, from French impressionist\/post-impressionist painters\u00a0to Canadian Indigenous artists.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-image-107 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/files\/2018\/03\/Jessica_Stockholder_-_Born_of_Landscape_Linoleum_-_1999_-_Middelheimmuseum_01.jpg\" alt=\"Born of Landscape Linoleum - 1999 - Middelheimmuseum\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/files\/2018\/03\/Jessica_Stockholder_-_Born_of_Landscape_Linoleum_-_1999_-_Middelheimmuseum_01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/files\/2018\/03\/Jessica_Stockholder_-_Born_of_Landscape_Linoleum_-_1999_-_Middelheimmuseum_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/files\/2018\/03\/Jessica_Stockholder_-_Born_of_Landscape_Linoleum_-_1999_-_Middelheimmuseum_01-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Born of Landscape Linoleum &#8211; 1999 &#8211; Middelheimmuseum By Sandra Fauconnier &#8211; Own work, CC BY 4.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=59794494<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American artist Jessica Stockholder currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois as Chair of the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago. \u00a0She was born in Seattle, Washington in 1959 and studied painting at the Emily Carr before receiving her MFA from Yale University. She is a sculptor and installation artist that has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32695,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3433517],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32695"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fuchsia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}