Jeanne Silverthorne joins Marc Straus Gallery
(Artdaily.org)

Marc Straus announced that Jeanne Silverthorne is now represented by the gallery. A comprehensive exhibition of her sculptures will open in the Fall of 2017. For more than three decades, Silverthorne has taken the studio as her subject. Her work is meticulous and personal, first fashioning everyday items in clay, then casting them in industrial-grade rubber. These objects reflect reality but colored with phosphorus or changed in scale, they retain their uniqueness. Thus she makes light bulbs, some broken, that fill and spill from a garbage bin; or wire cables, task chairs and shipping crates. Such banal items become metaphors for the inevitability of age and decay, but tempered with humor, hope and humanity. Silverthorne came of age as an artist when women sculptors not infrequently used Eva Hesse as inspiration and this was true for Silverthorne