Followed by a conversation with Lynne Tillman and Marta Kuzma.
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Hayden Visiting Artist Jessica Stockholder speaks on Monday, October 28th at the Yale School of Art in an artist talk entitled “Hinging: How to put it in the world.” Currently serving as the Raymond W. & Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the University of Chicago’s Department of Visual Arts, Stockholder will speak to the range of her work over time, addressing how she consistently works with material, color, and form to embody her interest in edge, boundary, autonomy, dependence, and coherence in the face of happenstance.
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Since the 1980s Stockholder has worked at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and architecture, employing conceptually-rich colors and materials to revolutionize the space of mixed media installation. After graduating from the Yale School of Art’s MFA program in 1985, Stockholder was appointed the Director of Graduate Studies in Sculpture at the School in 1999—a role she held for over a decade.
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Stockholder returns in an inauguration of the School’s 150th anniversary, which officially launches in the month of October as the precise sesquicentennial of when classes began in 1869. Her public lecture will be followed by a panel conversation with Stavros Niarchos Foundation Dean and Professor of Art Marta Kuzma and novelist, short story writer, and cultural critic Lynne Tillman. Tillman is Professor and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of English at The University of Albany and teaches at the School of Visual Arts’ Art Criticism and Writing MFA Program in New York. Among many others, her novels include “Haunted Houses” (1987) and “No Lease on Life” (1998)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award—and her nonfiction books include “The Velvet Years: Warhol’s Factory 1965–1967,” with photographs by Stephen Shore, and “What Would Lynne Tillman Do?,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. Based in New York City, she is the recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writing Fellowship. Intimately familiar with Stockholder’s work, Tillman contributed to Phaidon’s book on the artist for the publisher’s Contemporary Artists series in 1995, and later interviewed her for the text’s revised and expanded edition published in 2018, entitled “Jessica Stockholder.”
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In her recent exhibition, “Stuff Matters” at the Centraal Museum in the Netherlandic city of Utrecht, Stockholder curated an intersection of her own work with work from the museum’s diverse collection. This exhibition included two new commissioned works, works from the past three decades of Stockholder’s practice, and work from many centuries of the Museum’s collection. This show followed from other recent exhibitions in which Stockholder has invited other artists to work with her as she explores questions of relational aesthetics and context.
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Her work is represented in various collections including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Stockholder has received numerous grants including the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and several grants from the Canada Council. In 2010, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, which was followed by an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from Columbia College in 2013.
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The Hayden Visiting Artist program at the Yale School of Art has been made possible by the Hayden Fund for Art and Ideas, intended to bring internationally renowned artists and cultural producers to the Yale School of Art. Former Hayden Distinguished Fellows, an initiative also made possible by the Hayden Fund for Art and Ideas, have included artists Carol Bove, Andrea Fraser, and Hito Steyerl.
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Image: Jessica Stockholder. “In the Face of Drifting Eye,” 2019. Installation view of “Stuff Matters” at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands, April 19 – September 1, 2019.
