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‘For Use’

I will be participating in For Use, a show of ceramics, presented by Sculpture Space NYC during NYCxDESIGN 2023 Festival.
With and emphasis on design, For Use will highlights the work of 38 well-established and emerging creators from around the world, based in the New York City area and working at SSNYC. All works were created and produced at SSNYC.
Sculpture Space NYC is a ceramic center and gallery located in Log Island City, Queens, dedicated to promoting contemporary art & design focusing on the research and exploration of three dimensional work with an emphasis on ceramics. This curated exhibition will be featuring a variety of work including furniture, functional vessels, lighting and jewelry.

Please join us for our Opening Reception on May 19th from 6pm-8pm. Sculpture Space NYC is located in Long Island City, Queens, near the 33rd Street/Rawson Street stop on the 7 train.

Artists Featured in For Use:
Azusa Amemiya Nedda Atassi , Jane Barnet, Jim Brown, Issa Cabrera , Colleen Carlson, Vesna Dapic, Elizabeth Deluna, Clarisse Empaynado, Leigh Fanady, Bebe Federmann, Hanna Grankvist, Maggie Hsueh, Camille James, Jasper Johns, Casey Koh, Mallory Korz, Leah Lin, Graham Marks, Rose Perez, Elizabeth Marks, Christopher, Deirdre Swords, Steffany Tran, Kai Zimmerman, Jeanne Verdoux, Deborah Yasinsky, Shin Won Yoon, Maria Helm, Miwa Neishi, Gordon Moore, Harry Allen, Lou Kirchener, Lorca Morello, Andrea Koeppel, Andrew Kennedy, Sara Russell and Magda Dejose.

Sculpture Space NYC

47-21 35th Street
Long Island City, NY 11101

On view : 05/19-05/21, 2- 8pm

Opening : Friday 05/19, 6-8pm

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‘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.’

The Dance Enthusiast

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Public Art

“Howard Houses Drawing Dialogue” presented by ArtBridge 

on 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.⁠
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This exhibition was produced by ArtBridge, in partnership with the Howard Houses Resident Association and NYCHA. The program is made possible by the New York City Artist Corps and the #CityCanvas pilot program — initiatives of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Mayor’s Office.

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Femme Tasse, graphite on paper, 2022

Paper Power

FROSCH&Co is pleased to present Paper Power, featuring artists Yvette Cohen, Elise Engler, Leslie Kerby, Eva Lake, Magnolia Laurie, Vicki Sher, and Jeanne Verdoux. 

Paper is small. Delicate. Fleeting. It is our notepads full of miscellany and marginalia. The to-do lists we hang on the fridge. Yet paper is also the letters we preserve, the journals we pass down, and the books we cherish. It is the substrate on which much of our memories survive, revealed to us in pen strokes, creases, and smudge marks. Featuring large drawings by all women artists, Paper Power engages paper as an archive of women’s embodied experiences and their claim to space. 

Vicki Sher captures her response to being in nature through an emotional, tactile lens. Her textured compositions are built from layers of painting and collage, combining geometric systems with organic structures. Also inspired by the natural world, Magnolia Laurie creates imaginary, cross-sectional landscapes that complicate our expectation of a human perspective. Her ink drawings suggest a geologic span of time—visual layers repeatedly build up and break down, simultaneously evidencing immediate and gradual change. Meanwhile, Yvette Cohen’s drawings stretch our perception of space beyond the frame. By activating the white walls of the gallery as part of her works, the movement in her bold, fluid shapes extends to the body of the viewer as they interact with her Another Day, Another Shape series.

Jeanne Verdoux’s drawings explore the female figure as a vessel for interior life experiences. She builds her drawings in tandem with ceramics, emphasizing the physical energy she embeds in her forms through her making process as well as the dimensionality and materiality of the medium itself. Also focusing on the female form is Eva Lake, whose collages recontextualize modern beauties within ancient tableaus. By reimagining models from vintage magazines in antique settings, she juxtaposes the ephemerality and youth of her figures with a vision of womanhood that is both timeless and monumental.

Elise Engler investigates more recent historical subject matter in her drawings documenting the evolution of the American political zeitgeist throughout her life. Each period is told from both her own perspective and from the dominant discourses of the time, collapsing countless individual narratives into a snapshot of the collective culture. In a similar vein, Leslie Kerby’s drawings critically examine the American healthcare system, capturing the societal and political problematics of the industry in intimate, charged moments between doctors and patients. Her figures encounter one another in liminal spaces teeming with fungi and flora, implying both decay and the potential for healing and regrowth.  

Be they material or immaterial, Paper Power encourages us to look to our own archives as sources of empowerment.

Paper Power

FROSCH&CO
34 E Broadway
New York, NY 10002
 
On view 01/19 – 02/26 | Wed – Sun, noon – 6pm
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Press Review

12 CONTEMPORARY CERAMIC ARTISTS  BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO AN AGE OLD TRADITION

by 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.

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Exhibition

at 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

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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

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