News ‘For Use’I will be participating in For Use, a show of ceramics, presented by Sculpture Space NYC during NYCxDESIGN 2023 Festival. Artists Featured in For Use: 47-21 35th Street On view : 05/19-05/21, 2- 8pm Opening : Friday 05/19, 6-8pm …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..….. ‘Out of the Vessel’ I was invited by Norte Maar to collaborate with dancer JoVonna Parks to create a piece as part of Counter Pointe10. We created ‘Out of the Vessel’, an 8 mins choreography with a video projection of animated drawings and collages of the dancer’s body parts played behind the dancer as she moved on the stage. It was presented downtown Brooklyn’s at Mark O’Donnell Theater at the Entertainment Community Fund from March 24-26, 2023. ‘Dancer and choreographer JoVanna Parks infused the “Out of Vessel” with languid and anguished movements, complemented by a stop-motion video that showcased the breaking down and rebuilding of body parts, which was the inspiration for this piece. […] This piece was an odd but captivating exploration of the human condition, a visually striking experience that left the audience spellbound.’ …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..….. Public Art “Howard Houses Drawing Dialogue” presented by ArtBridgeon view at 270 Mother Gaston Blvd Brooklyn, NY Exploring human nature and attitudes, “Howard Houses Drawing Dialogue” playfully intersperses Verdoux’s drawings with portraits made by resident youth. Incorporating ink portraits created during her workshops held at the Howard Houses, the artwork reflects the creativity of Howard’s youngest residents. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….  Paper Power
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Press Review 12 CONTEMPORARY CERAMIC ARTISTS BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO AN AGE OLD TRADITIONby The MUNCHIES ART CLUB MAGAZINE April 2022 The revival of Ceramic art in the world of fine arts is releasing the medium clay from its traditional functional imperative, and redefining the ancient art form in new ways. Clay has become a medium of sculptural expression, with remarkable breadth and approaches, telling stories, and depicting popular culture. Blending art design and also function with traditional, modern and experimental techniques. Here we share a selection of 12 artists we discovered during our open call on Instagram. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Exhibitionat Frosch & Co Gallery
FROSCH&CO is pleased to present Home Sweet, a group exhibition featuring artists Leslie Kerby, Julia Kuhl, Heather Morgan, Patricia Satterlee, and Jeanne Verdoux. Home Sweet explores the symbiosis between our interiorities and the spaces we call home as nexus points of human belonging, complicating the private/public line that has traditionally demarcated the frontiers of spaces of femininity and fostered division rather than community. Bringing together drawing, painting, and ceramics by all women artists, this group exhibition addresses domesticity by transforming the private sphere into a public forum for emotional and creative exchange. Featured artists include Leslie Kerby, whose interior scenes reinterpret her friends’ photographs of places in their homes in which they take solace. Kerby’s series translates these “happy places” into watercolor, acrylic, and mixed media collage drawings on semi-translucent vellum, opening new possibilities for exchange within separation. Responding to interior themes in a much larger format is artist Jeanne Verdoux; her ceramics and drawings on mattress paper explore the female form as a vessel for interior life experiences through domestic materials. In her recent Enough PIE for Everyone! Series, Patricia Satterlee works with the common everyday fabric cotton. Her square paintings depicting in slices divided circular shapes evoke symbols of plentitude as antidotes to human division. Inspired by interplays of Buddhist iconography, her ruminations on abundance combat the rhetorics of scarcity that fuel the frenzy of fear that has overtaken American political discourse. Meanwhile, Munich based Julia Kuhl’s Domestic Textile Series employs the language of women’s craft arts to question the essentialized roles women are expected to perform in both traditional and contemporary societal contexts. Finally, Heather Morgan’s still life paintings provoke the gaze of the onlooker, making palpable the intimacy and vulnerability of the domestic sphere. Our homes reflect the richness of our innermost realities, yet they are also fortresses where we retreat from outside. Home is where we are truly alone, yet it is also full of loved ones, both past and present, and the memories that shape who we are as people.Home Sweet explores the permeability of the four walls separating inner and outer, private and public, and personal and collective experience. On view December 9, 2021 – January 16, 2022 ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. Drawing the Cover of New York Magazine : Reasons We’ve Loved New York
I illustrated New York Magazine’s 16th annual “Reasons to Love New York” issue, a tribute to all the places that closed during the pandemic began. “The cover features illustrations from French visual artist Jeanne Verdoux, who has lived in New York City for 20 years. “It is shocking to see places I went to are disappearing. To me they ARE New York,” says Verdoux. Many of the businesses captured in her drawings are places Verdoux herself is mourning. Places like B Bar, Century 21, Carroll Gardens Diner, and Jeffrey New York, among others. Using an ink brush, Verdoux captured 38 businesses in one week for the purposes of this cover. “I went inside a drawing tunnel with my ink brush and became a drawing machine,” she says of her process. “The drawings are a gestural expression of what I see. Very spontaneous. Little to no edits to the first impression.” December 2020 …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… |
