“Hollow places court in ash-tree wood”
Jessica Stockholder

A Frac des Pays de la Loire exhibition
invited by Estuaire Nantes <> Saint-Nazaire 2012
Curator: Laurence Gateau, Director of the Frac

Le Frac invited famed American artist Jessica Stockholder (1959, Seattle), whose works have been shown in the some of the world’s most important art institutions. Often working in installations – at times, monumental – she constructs them out of everyday, found objects which she assembles, either using scotch tape or layers of fabric or thin coats of paint. Stockholder designs her installations based on colour, surface, and composition, thereby creating paintings that unfold in their given space, like sculptures with bright and sustained tones.

In this open space, with its large bay windows on the Loire, these works was created specifically for this event, and presented next to pieces produced in 2011 for the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut. Boards that were cut from a 100-year-old tree were the starting point for this installation with its play on colour, shape, fullness and emptiness, creating a museum going experience with dynamic contrasts… like a majestic echo at a natural site.

— Exposition du 15 juin au 2 septembre 2012.