Sculpture Space NYC Center for Ceramic Arts is pleased to present ‘Female Vaisselle’, an exhibition by mixed media artist Jeanne Verdoux.
Female Vaisselle
Jeanne Verdoux Solo Exhibition
February 02 – March 2nd, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, February 2nd, 2024, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Sculpture Space NYC- Center for Ceramic Art is pleased to present ‘Female Vaisselle’, an exhibition by mixed media artist Jeanne Verdoux. This exhibition features ceramic sculptures, large-scale drawings on mattress paper, small mono-prints on paper and a video, created between 2015 and 2023. 'Female Vaisselle' explores the theme of one’s life experiences interiorized in the female body.
Jeanne Verdoux’s work makes connections, through various media, to explore the representation of the feminine body and express her personal experience as a woman, a mother and a daughter.
Drawing is the genesis of Jeanne Verdoux’s work. Her sculptures emerge from a symbolic idea found in a drawing. Starting in 2015, the image of the feminine body as a vessel emerged in her drawings and prints and in 2018, Jeanne Verdoux started building clay vessels where the female figure is represented as a symbolic hollow container with human attributes. These humanized vessels explore the feminine body as a storage for interior life experiences. Fertility, motherhood, balance and gravity, humor and absurdity are some of the themes explored in ‘Female Vaisselle’. Every ’Female Vaisselle' presents functional figurative forms, that can contain, pour, or receive liquid, where the nomenclature of the vessel, lip, belly, foot, take on multiple meanings. The vessels range in size from 4 to 19 inches high and are hand-built and then glazed. Together, they form a collection of ceramics suggesting an eclectic family with members of all shapes, sizes and colors. Also presented in the exhibition is an animated video titled 'Out of the Vessel' that Jeanne Verdoux created in 2023 for a collaboration with dancer/choreographer Jovonna Parks.
The title ‘Female Vaisselle’ is a play on French and English. The French word ‘Vaisselle’ sounds exactly like the English word ‘vessel’ but has a different meaning. It means tableware and crockery and by extension, it also means ‘washing the dishes’, a domestic task traditionally given to women. This title ties in with the artist’s whimsical collection of expressive female body-shaped vessels and the double meaning held within them.
About The Artist: Jeanne Verdoux (born in 1966) is a French American mixed media visual artist focused on drawing, printmaking and ceramics. She has received grants and fellowships from the New York State Council of the Arts, Queens Arts Fund, the City Artist Corps, The Bronx Museum, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The French Institute, The French Ministry of Culture. Her work has been exhibited in the US, Canada, France and China and reviewed in The New York Times, Huffington Post and Boston Globe. In recent years, she has exhibited several times at Frosch&Co gallery in New York. She earned an MFA from The Royal College of Art (London) and a BFA from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués (Paris). She is a Professor at Parsons and NYU.
Sculpture Space NYC is a ceramic and sculpture center founded in 2013. Sculpture Space NYC's mission is to stimulate creativity, new ideas and collaboration in ceramics- based investigations. Artists, designers, and craftspeople of all backgrounds converge in this center to experiment, learn, make, reflect and grow artistically.
SSNYC-CCA Curatorial Program is dedicated to promoting contemporary visual art focusing on the research and exploration of three-dimensional work with an emphasis towards ceramics. The not-for-profit gallery maintains an ongoing exhibition schedule featuring works of the underrepresented artist community, as well as the work of emerging and established artists.
The ‘Female Vaisselle’ project is made possible (in part) with public funds from the Queens Arts Fund, a re-grant program supported by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by New York Foundation for the Arts.
The ‘Female Vaisselle’ project is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday-Saturday: 2pm-8pm (appointment is not required)
info@sculpturespacenyc.com
Location: we are located at 47-21 35th Street, Long Island City NY 11101, near the 33rd Street/ Rawson Street stop on the 7 train.
