Making Way
Date2023
Artist
Jessica Stockholder
(Canadian-American, born 1959)
Mediumvarious mediums
ClassificationFine Art
SubclassificationInstallation
Credit LineCurated by Elizabeth Chodos, CMU Johnson Family Public Art Curator.
Object number2025.06.06
DescriptionThe artwork - Making way - sits both inside and outside, supported and contained by the building’s structure and the landscape design. The artwork does not stay within the lines. It slips in and out of the forms established by the site and opens up a space for imagining the many pathways open to us within any structure or system.
The static light cast by the street lamps, which are positioned both in and outside of the building, are in contrast to the shifting light cast by the sun, and the colors on the wall, the floor, and in the glass shift with the sun’s movement. Likewise, moving one’s body through the work provides ever-shifting points of view, and inflects the present moment with the accumulation of experiencing the artwork over time.
The static light cast by the street lamps, which are positioned both in and outside of the building, are in contrast to the shifting light cast by the sun, and the colors on the wall, the floor, and in the glass shift with the sun’s movement. Likewise, moving one’s body through the work provides ever-shifting points of view, and inflects the present moment with the accumulation of experiencing the artwork over time.
On view
Location
Alan Magee Scaife Hall (4805 Frew St)
Archille Giammartini (1912), Nicholas Fairplay, Bruce Lindsey, Paul Rosenblatt (1980s)
1912–1995
