Simone Kestelman

Simone Kestelman is a sculptor and multi-media artist working in glass, ceramics, and photography. Her work speaks to archetypal themes of life, death, love, violence, and ambition. Her visual language is universal, an emotive vehicle for all that cannot be articulated through words. Striking juxtapositions abound in the sculptures: a ceramic red balloon, a glass swing encasing barbed wire, a foot stool covered in razor blades. Kestelman’s visceral material interventions upon everyday objects project a quiet urgency regarding issues of sexual violence, particularly against women and children.

Kestelman began working in ceramics at the age of seven in her hometown of Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From a young age, she became acutely aware of Brazil’s social issues, set against a lush cultural backdrop of art, soulful music and vibrant geography. Yet, currents of violence and extreme socio-economic inequality flow beneath the surface.

CMOG - Corning Museum of Glass
PILCHUCK GLASS SCHOOL OF ART
URBAN GLASS SCHOOL
EUGENE GLASS SCHOOL

2019 – Visions of Awarness, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY
2019 – The Chair Show, Arts Westchester, White Plains, NY
2019 – Sculpture in the Garden, Edward Hopper House Museum, Nyack, NY
2018 - Violated Bodies - Manhattanville College
2018 - Fire In The Belly - The Burnette Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2018 - InVisible, AiBo Gallery, NY
2018 - Collaborative Concepts 2D, Hudson Beach Gallery - Beacon - NY
2018 - Katonah Museum of Art, SIGNAL - Katonah - NY
2018- Convergences, at Jeanette J. Phillips Health Center, Peekskill, NY
2018 - Order/Disorder Katonah Museum - KMAA - Fine Arts Gallery of Westchester College - NY
2018 - Violated Bodies at The Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice- NY
2018 - Violated Bodies at Amelie A. Wallace Gallery at Suny Old Westbury Long Island

2017- The Secret - 102nd Annual Open Juried Exhibition New Rochelle Art Association
2017 - Paper Plane in a Cage- The Saunders Farm Project 2017
2017- The Art of the Garden Exhibition -The Lazarus Gallery United Hebrew of New Rochelle ;
2017 – Xanadu: Land of Enchantment, Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NY, March 22nd
2017 - Art Takes Manhattan at Caelum Gallery, F...