Jesse Stecklow
Components in the Air
Solo Exhibition
November 6, 2021 to January 2, 2022
The Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, United States
Exhibition Text
Both visible and unseen components of our surroundings are defining elements in the artistic practice of Los Angeles–based artist Jesse Stecklow (b. 1993). In his first solo museum exhibition, Stecklow explores the individual character of the rooms at Bainbridge House, outfitting each gallery with installations that interweave imagery, motion, and sound to heighten visitors’ attention to the architecture and to the ways that our personal associations, memories, and perspectives profoundly shape our experiences of space. Components in the Air / Jesse Stecklow is curated by Mitra Abbaspour, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and former curatorial associate Alex Bacon.
Installation Views
Artist Biography
Jesse Stecklow's practice is rooted in data collection; each of his sculptures is a link in a recursive chain in which each work references a past work or foretells a future work. Stecklow extracts data from exhibition sites, using it as inspiration for materials and forms in new works. Elements brought together from diverse sources repeat, shift forms, and reveal unexpected connections; themes from earlier projects are reinvented and recast in different constellations with each following presentation.
Stecklow (*1993, United States) lives and works in Los Angeles. He has presented two solo exhibitions at Sweetwater, most recently in 2023. His exhibition Terminal took place at the Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna in 2022, and was accompanied by a catalogue. His work has also recently been included in exhibitions at the Capc Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, the Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, and the Kunstverein Braunschweig. Stecklow received a degree in Media Arts from UCLA, Los Angeles, in 2014.