SR Lejeune
2023 West Bay View Foundation Fellow

West Bay View Fellowship recipient, SR Lejeune joined us at Dieu Donné in August 2023. SR’s fellowship provided them access to our studios, a stipend, and close guidance from our artistic directors to push their understanding of collaboration and their own artistic practice.

SR Lejeune explores the ways in which knowledge of material and process can disrupt traditional systems of power. In their body of work made at Dieu Donné, SR manipulated layers of fibers to recreate sidewalks the artist came across during their daily walks around New York. Washes or splashes of pigmented pulp, intimate hand interventions, and layered surface textures simulate pooled puddles and stains, layers of built-up grime or gum, and the spraypainted markers made by city workers, which serve as points of access to information. By acquiring insight into systems and structures–whether in the materiality of pulling sheets of paper or machining metal, or the symbology of street surveying markers–SR obtains the ability to understand their environment as one that was manufactured and produced. Through this understanding of the construction of our everyday world, SR asks the viewer to begin to deconstruct it.

About the Artist

SR Lejeune is a multidisciplinary artist living & working in Brooklyn, NY & Pine Plains, NY. SR's sculptures are perpetual prototypes of trans corporeality — unfixed forms between hand and industrial processes, invisibility and legibility, mechanical engineering and poetry, fiction and function. SR received a BA with High Honors in Studio Art from Oberlin College (2015), was a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft (2017-19) and holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art (2023). They recently completed the West Bay View Foundation Fellowship at Dieu Donné in Brooklyn, NY and are currently a Fellow at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, NM

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