Jessica Stockholder: Door Hinges

This catalogue highlights Door Hinges, Jessica Stockholder's first solo exhibition in Chicago in 24 years, and ASSISTED, a group exhibition curated by the artist, at Kavi Gupta in 2015. Door Hinges includes studio works that bridge painting and sculpture alongside an installation that tethers the outside of the gallery to the inside. A winding platform leads the viewers to her latest body of work, Assists. Stockholder’s Assists explore the interstitial space between works of art and their surrounding objects, questioning notions of boundary and dependence while responding to the landscape of the human-made things that has been explored by Stockholder’s work in the past. The Assists are strapped to found furniture and appliances, sometimes acting as a pedestal for artwork by Stockholder or other artists. The Assist has a symbiotic relationship with its adjoining objects, and indeed cannot stand alone without them. The evocative space embodied in Stockholder’s paintings communicates som