Our summer Open House will feature SR Lejeune, 2023-24 West Bay View Foundation Fellow and current Dieu Donné Studio Assistant. All Open Houses include a tour of the Dieu Donné gallery and studio.
SR’s artistic practice spans multiple disciplines, holding craft as a way of seeing and an approach to utility as both possibility and limitation. Sensitive to the relationships between fiction and function, invisibility and legibility, and hand and industry, SR creates perpetual prototypes, sculptures that embrace unfixed form. In this artist talk, SR will share works made during their fellowship influenced by the accumulated imprints of time on city sidewalks, within the context of their broader practice.
About the Artist:
SR Lejeune received a BA with High Honors in Studio Art from Oberlin College, was a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft and holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art. Recent exhibitions include Haleigh Collins & SR Lejeune at North Loop in Williamstown, MA, THE WEIGHT OF WONDER | Materiality and the Poetics of Craft, John and Robyn Horn Gallery, Penland, NC, sky lights at lower_cavity in Holyoke, MA, horizon line at the Yale School of Art Green Galleries in New Haven, CT, BODIES, RECIPROCAL MOTIONS, YveYANG Gallery, NYC, NY, and Trodden Path at Hesse Flatow EAST in Amagansett, NY. SR was the Studio Coordinator for Books and Paper at the Penland School of Craft from 2018-2021, and has taught papermaking workshops at Penland and Women's Studio Workshop. SR has stayed on at Dieu Donné as a studio assistant after completing the West Bay View Foundation Fellowship and is currently building out a manual machine shop in Amenia, New York.