File:Jessica Stockholder Your-Skin-in-the-Weather 1995.jpg

Site-specific installation by Jessica Stockholder, Your Skin in This Weather Bourne Eye-Threads & Swollen Perfume (paint, concrete, structolite, building materials, carpet, lamps, electrical cord, plastic stacking crates, swimming pool liner, welded steel, stuffed shirts pillows, papier maché, balls; 5 meters x 1,097 meters square; 1995, Dia Foundation, New York City). The image illustrates a key mid-career body of work in Jessica Stockholder's career in the 2000s, when she produced immersive, site-specific temporary installations works that merge artwork and architecture. Critics characterize these works—in this case, a 3,600-square-foot installation at the Dia Foundation in New York that spilled into the center's lobby and out windows into an alley—by their unifying, high-key color, physicality, aggressive use of everyday materials, unexpected juxtapositions, and rejection of illusionism or privileged vantage points. This work was publicly exhibited in a prominent museum and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Jessica Stockholder. Copyright held by the artist.

Jessica Stockholder

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key mid-career body of work in Jessica Stockholder's career in the 2000s: her immersive, site-specific temporary installations, which combine found and purchased objects, various framing devices, and zones of painted, carpeted or intrinsic color into unified "walk-in paintings" that merge artwork and architecture, surface and support, and figure and ground. Critics characterize these works by their rejection of illusionism, emphasis on the physicality of surfaces and objects, direct, aggressive use of materials, juxtapositions of incompatible items, the use of color to assert unlikely connections, and spatial approach that refuses any privileged vantage point. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this key stage and body of work, which brought Stockholder widespread recognition through exhibitions and installations in museums and galleries and coverage by major critics and publications. Stockholder's work of this type and this particular work is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Jessica Stockholder, and the work no longer is viewable, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.