"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
"Nit Picking Trumpets of Iced Blue Vagaries" (1998)
"Nit Picking Trumpets of Iced Blue Vagaries," 1998
Installation at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes/La Salle Blanche, Nantes, France
Panels from a refrigerator room, 34 stacks of blue plastic buckets, lumber, cable, hardware, rope, enamel, oil and acrylic paint, carpet, basket, yarn, part of a swing se
Courtesy the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Installation at Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes/La Salle Blanche, Nantes, France
Panels from a refrigerator room, 34 stacks of blue plastic buckets, lumber, cable, hardware, rope, enamel, oil and acrylic paint, carpet, basket, yarn, part of a swing se
Courtesy the artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
"How the pieces begin is a hard thing to talk about. I like these pieces of plastic; I like the color of the plastic; I like that they’re inexpensive but gorgeous. And why are they so inexpensive and gorgeous compared to diamonds, which are so expensive and probably no more beautiful than these plastic things? I think these plastic things are stunningly beautiful. And then they’re so inexpensive."
- Jessica Stockholder
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