Jeanne Silverthorne
Marc Straus is pleased to present the inaugural solo exhibition of American sculptor Jeanne Silverthorne at the gallery. For more than three decades, Silverthorne has taken the studio as her subject. For Silverthorne the worksite and its contents, including herself, become inextricable metaphors of existence, age and decay.
Silverthorne creates sculptures almost invariably in industrial-grade rubber, favoring a laborious, old-fashioned process that requires numerous separate casts for a single work. Her sculptures of everyday items mimic reality, but colored and/or changed in scale they acquire new meaning and unexpected associations. Thus wires and conduits may now suggest arteries or veins flowing with life, light-bulbs symbolize creativity, and chairs that are worn out evoke human presences. Yet her bulbs do not light and her chairs are not supportive 鈥攖hey are the apotheoses of the dysfunctional.
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Marc Straus is pleased to present the inaugural solo exhibition of American sculptor Jeanne Silverthorne at the gallery. For more than three decades, Silverthorne has taken the studio as her subject. For Silverthorne the worksite and its contents, including herself, become inextricable metaphors of existence, age and decay.
Silverthorne creates sculptures almost invariably in industrial-grade rubber, favoring a laborious, old-fashioned process that requires numerous separate casts for a single work. Her sculptures of everyday items mimic reality, but colored and/or changed in scale they acquire new meaning and unexpected associations. Thus wires and conduits may now suggest arteries or veins flowing with life, light-bulbs symbolize creativity, and chairs that are worn out evoke human presences. Yet her bulbs do not light and her chairs are not supportive 鈥攖hey are the apotheoses of the dysfunctional.
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