1. Jeanne Silverthorne gained prominence in New York City in the 1990s, as one of several material-focused sculptors who critiqued the austere, male-dominated Minimalist movement by embracing humble, unorthodox media and hand-made, personal and ephemeral qualities championed by artists such as Eva Hesse and Louise Bourgeois.
Jeanne Silverthorne has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, and Anonymous Was a Woman Award, among others, and her art has been acquired by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Jeanne Silverthorne has exhibited internationally, in solo shows at the Phillips Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and PS1, and group exhibitions at MoMA, Albright-Knox Gallery and Haus der Kunst, among others.
Jeanne Silverthorne is based in New York and has taught at the School of Visual Arts since 1993.
Jeanne Silverthorne exploited the fleshy, light-deadening nature of cast rubber and dramatic shifts in scale to give ordinary elements qualities of absurdity, futility, morbidity and unfamiliarity.
Jeanne Silverthorne gained increasing attention through the decade with exhibitions at Rocca Paolina, ICA Boston, Wright Museum of Art, Deste Foundation and the Whitney Museum, among others.
In exhibitions at ICAP and the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, Jeanne Silverthorne reworked tiny casting fragments resembling packing-case noodles into large black rubber sculptures that offered an ironic, absurdist take on the persistence of 19th-century artistic tropes and contemporary desperation for new visual forms.
Jeanne Silverthorne collaborated in 2021 with fellow New York artist Bonnie Rychlak in mounting the exhibition Down and Dirty at the Lupin Foundation Gallery at the University of Georgia.
Jeanne Silverthorne was recognized with a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 2017, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award in 2010, and an Anonymous Was A Woman Award in 1996, the award's inaugural year.
Jeanne Silverthorne has received grants from the Penny McCall Foundation Grant and National Endowment for the Arts and fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.