JEANNE SILVERTHORNE

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Since the early 1990’s Jeanne Silverthorne has been exploring the image of the studio as a place of ruin and collapse. Excavating this site includes inventorying its physical infrastructure, its processes and its products. Exit with Fan is one such extraction: a rubber copy of studio wiring and signage is coupled with a limp motor and fan to create a tableau of dead-ended exhaustion. Still and Moving features key-hole sized photographs and videos alluding to the haunted architecture of the studio as well as to the materials used there, the artifacts made and destroyed, the aspirations and disappointments and the consumption of energy housed therein. Some of these videos are original footage, some are found but altered, such as Alphawordless , an edited and soundless clip from Jean Luc Goddard’s landmark film.

In this archaeology of the studio , extinct or ancient genres, such as the floral painting, the still life and the portrait are exhumed as well. They are infected with signs of decay, morbid excess and toxicity, as indicated by the extensive use of phosphorescent pigment and the invasion of rubber insects and weeds. Nature literally forces itself through the cracks of the studio floor in the form of wild grasses and dandelions.

The sculptures presented here are cast rubber, a material inherently de-formalizing– floppy, deliquescent–and in that sense entropic. But rubber has also a humorous aspect, a comic lack of backbone and silliness offsetting morbidity and perhaps reflecting the irrepressibility of the life force, if only at the level of weed and insect.

Biography

Einzelausstellungen (Ausstellung)

2020
More Flesh and Bone, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY, Marc Strauss, New York
What is Real?, Deutsches Generalkonsulat, New York

2017
Marc Straus, New York

2015
The Rose is Obsolete, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz

2014
Down the Hole and into the Grain, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2013
Intersections: Jeanne Silverthorne Vanitas!, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Little Big, New Galerie de France, Paris

2012
Peripheral Vision, McKee Gallery, New York

2008
Jeanne Silverthorne, McKee Gallery, New York

2006
Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Burning DNA, Butler Museum, Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Irland
Woodruff Center for the Arts,Atlanta, Georgia,Project Room.

2003
Jeanne Silverthorne: New Work 1998-2000, McKee Gallery, New York

2002
Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000
Jeanne Silverthorne: New Work 1998-2000, McKee Gallery, New York

1996
Institute of Contemporary Art,Philadelphia, PA, Februar, 1996.

McKee Gallery, New York, Mai, 2003,April, 2000, März, 1997, September, 1994.
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, September, 2005,Februar, 2002, Februar, 1998.
Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA, September, 2002, Mai, 1995.
Whitney Museum at Altria, New York, 1999.
Studio La Citta, Verona, Italien, 1995.
Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, März, 1999, Dezember, 1994.
Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italien, 1996. Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI, ten-year survey, 1998.

Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, Juni, 1990PS 1, Long Island City, New York, Oktober, 1982.

Gruppenausstellungen  (Auswahl)

2018

Edition #o1, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill

2017

Salon 2017, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, The White Heat – Marc Straus, New York City, NY
Where are we going, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz

2016
Forget-Me-Not – Künstlerische Ansätze Gegen Das Vergessen, Galerie Zimmermann Kratochwill, Graz
People, Places, Things, Tracy Williams, Ltd, New York City, NY
Defining Sculpture, Albright Knox Museum, New York, curated by Doug Dreishpoon
A Weed is a Plant Out of Place, Lismore Castle, Lismore Co., Waterford, Ireland, curated by Allegra Pesenti
Don’t Panic; It’s Organic, Zimmerman Kratochwill Gallery, Graz, Austria

2015
Paule Anglim – Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
4 Sculptor, McKee Gallery, New York City, NY

2014
Spring Group Show, McKee Gallery, New York City, NY
Aspects of the Self: Portraits of Our Times, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Winter Group Show, McKee Gallery, New York City, NY

2013
Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Skin Trade An In-depth Look At The Surface Of Things, PPOW, New York City, NY
Gravity of Sculpture: Part II, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs (DGCP), New York City, NY
Skin, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2012
Living in Art & Design, Gallery Seomi, Seoul
Cerebral Spirits: Stalking the Self University Galleries at the Ben Shahn Center for Visual Arts, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
Video<>object, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs (DGCP), New York City, NY

2011
Burning Bright, Pace Gallery, Oktober

2010
SCULPTURE, McKee Gallery, New York City, NY

2008
About Us, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Dead Center / Marginal Notes: Peter Downsbrough / Jeanne Silverthorne, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2007
Summer Group Show, McKee Gallery, New York City, NY
Small Bodies, McKee Gallery, New York City, NY
Gems from the Collection, The Castle, Kilkenny

2006
Against the Grain, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Materials, Metaphors, Narratives: Work by Six Contemporary Artists—Petah Coyne, Lesley Dill, Ken Price, Tom Sachs, Jeanne 

2004
Silverthorne, Fred Tomaselli, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY, Oktober, 2003 – Jänner

2002
Chain Reaction, Williams College Museum, Massachusetts, Tang Museum, New York, 2001-2002.
Aquaria, Landesgalerie am Oberösterrreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, 2002.
Skin, Deste Foundation, Athen, Griechenland, 1999.

1999
Unprivileged Spaces, Boras Konstmuseum, Bildmuseet, Umea, und Edsvik Konstock Kultur, Sollentuna, Schweden

1998
Deep Storage, München, Berlin, New York, Seattle, 1997-98.
Rubber, Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1997
Gothic, ICA Boston

1995
Configura, Dialog der Kulturen, Erfurt

1990
Vertigo, Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Paris

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