Jennifer Seastone

I’m working with unassuming scrap wood that I find in civilized places (basements, lots, storage units) to create abstract, anti-representational, textural sculptures that can be touched by the observer. My aesthetic approach offers a feminist take on woodworkers and sculpturists like Warton Eisherick, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Jacques Lipchitz. Channeling thought leaders like Octavia Butler, Maggie Nelson, and Pema Chodron, I carve the wood to reveal the spiritually inherent in the grain, making decisions intuited through the wood fibers in a meditative state. The sculptures evoke a softness and ghostliness to the once organic matter, offering permission and agency to ponder and feel the incoherence of existence without relying on semiotics.

I am a native New Yorker with roots in performance and visual objects. I have a BFA in experimental theater from NYU, and an MFA from City College in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts Practice.

My work has been shown at The Performance Arcade in New Zealand, in New York at The Invisible Dog and the Invisible Dog's Glass House, Uncanny Valley, Dixon Place