PAST EXHIBITION
Jeanne Silverthorne: New Works
May 8, 2008—June 13, 2008

Press Release

The McKee Gallery is pleased to open a new exhibition of Jeanne Silverthorne’s rubber sculpture and wire installation on Thursday, May 8, 2008, 6-8 pm.

Silverthorne is once again engaged in recreating the artist’s studio, both as an internal state of being and as the physical place where creativity grows.  The studio is the artist’s habitat and so a relevant subject to be examined.  It seems to have a life-cycle of its own, a place where ideas are born and developed, investigated, formed into works of art, then left, or stored in crates.  The medium for this investigation is rubber.

There are 11 works in the exhibition.  Bad Ideas is a trash can filled will discarded and broken light bulbs; Mutant Lamp with Flies shows the intense scrutiny objects are put under while flies attack them as they decay.  The three phosphorescent “paintings” with flowers and bees are the brighter side of the artist’s creative process, whereas the DNA Candelabra exposes the various anxious artistic moods.  A Banana Peel lays open, eaten, evidence of humor, decay and disposability.

Along with the rubber sculptures are 12 short videos and 38 small photographs of the studio, installed on a wall altogether and entitled, Still and in Motion.

Jeanne Silverthorne was born in Philadelphia in 1950 and received a BA and MA from Temple University.  She has had numerous one-person gallery exhibitions all over the world and several museum shows including: PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; and the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.  Silverthorne is in several major museum collections including:  The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Fondation Nationale d’Art Contemporain, France; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.

This exhibition continues through Friday, June 13, 2008.

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