On this occasion, 14 works on paper executed in the mid-1980s during the period of consolidation of her artistic personality are presented.  The title of the exhibition chosen by the artist, Underpinning, refers to the foundational nature of this work in her oeuvre as a whole.

In Jessica Stockholder's own words: "Since my student days I have worked on works on paper regularly but not continuously.  I find it more difficult to work on paper than by grouping various objects together - the materiality of the world is so evocative! But, I also find the illusory space of paper extremely generative and the source of all my work.  I am interested in the difference between drawing and the relationship to objects in the world, drawing photographs and drawing from the imagination.  The tensions between these aspects result in my different lines of work.

Jessica Stockholder has been associated on numerous occasions with certain artistic movements such as minimalism, abstract expressionism and colour field painting. In her work there is a permanent interrelation of new and used objects where the constructive density results in an undifferentiated treatment of materials whose convergent and divergent properties struggle to coexist. His sculpture has a marked pictorial component resulting from the treatment of painting as an object and the object as painting. The volumes of colour accompany the overflowing profusion of materials and objects that are harmoniously contained in a stimulating play that goes from the abstract to the concrete.