Esther Stocker
Esther Stocker’s geometric abstract works principally consist of paintings and installations - often a combination of the two. Limiting herself to a palette of black, grey, and white, the artist whittles her images down to the essentials, allowing her to focus on spatial, sculptural representations as opposed to pictorial spaces. Her aesthetic can be seen as an extension or addition to the 1960s Op Art movement which considered the viewer’s vision and perception of space as a participatory feature of the work. Stocker’s artistic method involves mathematical discourse, creating geometric structures based on eternally self-repeating modules which create an ordered visual rhythm, which the artist then disrupts by adding aberrations to the formula and to the viewer’s expectations.
Stocker has studied at the Fine Art Academies of Vienna and Brera-Milan, as well as at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She regularly exhibits in museums and art centres throughout Europe and the US. Among others her work has been shown at the South London Gallery ("Beyond these Walls") in 2009, at CCNOA of Brussels ("Abstract Thought is a warm puppy") and at the Museum of Modern Art of the Ludwig foundation in Vienna ("geometrisch betrachtet") in 2008, …
Esther Stocker’s geometric abstract works principally consist of paintings and installations - often a combination of the two. Limiting herself to a palette of black, grey, and white, the artist whittles her images down to the essentials, allowing her to focus on spatial, sculptural representations as opposed to pictorial spaces. Her aesthetic can be seen as an extension or addition to the 1960s Op Art movement which considered the viewer’s vision and perception of space as a participatory feature of the work. Stocker’s artistic method involves mathematical discourse, creating geometric structures based on eternally self-repeating modules which create an ordered visual rhythm, which the artist then disrupts by adding aberrations to the formula and to the viewer’s expectations.
Stocker has studied at the Fine Art Academies of Vienna and Brera-Milan, as well as at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She regularly exhibits in museums and art centres throughout Europe and the US. Among others her work has been shown at the South London Gallery ("Beyond these Walls") in 2009, at CCNOA of Brussels ("Abstract Thought is a warm puppy") and at the Museum of Modern Art of the Ludwig foundation in Vienna ("geometrisch betrachtet") in 2008, at the Galerie im Taxispalast of Innsbruck in 2006 and at AR/GE Kunstgalerie Museum of Bolzano in 2004. In 2011 Esther Stocker presented her solo show "Destino Comune" at MACRO in Rome, she also took part in the exhibitions "Fünf Räume" of the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York and "Abstraction/Quotidien" and "Abstraction/Modernité" of CAC Passerelle in Brest.