Jessica Stockholder "Flooded Chambers Maid"
Mad. Sq. Art
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For more than two decades, Jessica Stockholder has been fashioning a new language for sculpture and installation art, one that applies a painter’s sense of form, pattern, texture and color to three dimensional spaces through the use of a staggering variety of media, from heavy duty construction material to mass-produced commercial products and even live horticulture.
Inspired by the interplay of natural and man-made patterns in the design of Madison Square Park and born of an experiential approach to art making, Flooded Chambers Maid is anchored by a 1300 sq. ft. arrow-shaped platform sprawling across the northern end of the park’s Oval Lawn. The platform—a wildly colorful and intricately-patterned combination of custom cut and colored industrial steel and molded fiberglass grating—emerges from a shock of colored rubber mulch to spread itself across the lawn, enveloping a tree and stretching to reach the pathway surrounding the Oval Lawn. The platform’s dynamic pop colors, so characteristic of Stockholder’s work, spill from the edge of the platform and Oval Lawn across the bordering pathway, leading to an equally colorful staircase and viewing platform installed on one of the smaller adjacent lawns. From this elevated perspective, visitors are invited to view the installation’s garden: swaths of bright flowers and boldly colored plastic bins and buckets that sweep across the small adjoining lawn in an energetic and ever-changing expanse.
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Schedule
from May 01, 2009 to August 15, 2009