My birthday at the end of June has prompted a refreshing of my website and addition of photos of recent work. 
Looking through these images I see that the artwork may be recent but the themes are ancient, and my lifelong interests in them still persist. The classical world of mythology, the Olympian gods and their human frailties, the universal themes of the Tarot, the magical thinking of Egyptian Book of the Dead, and the expression of human passion have attracted and influenced me since college and still do. I was a literature major in school, never an artist. But now I find pleasure in the process of creating, of plunging my hands into clay and having the figure tell me who it wants to become. Creating figure sculpture is like stealing fire from the gods!
Category: Sculpture
It Took a Village (Palm Springs)
I decided I needed a male figure to balance out the lovely nudes crowding my house. I had inspiration for a pose from Chanel’s ad for men’s fragrance, Bleu de Chanel. And that’s my color, to which I am strongly drawn. But our sculpture class at the Art Students’ League specializes in female models.
Jean and Monsieur Bleu
So, I got by with a little help from my friends. When cousin Josh came to Woodstock he took the pose on my porch. When I went to visit him in Palm Springs, all the guys at Tom’s Birthday Pool Party took the pose for me. I clicked away. In Woodstock the guys running on my road let me video them. And two friends in my class bared their shoulder and torso. Thanks Mark & Tony.
I am glad to say the resultant imposing sculpture, Monsieur Bleu, looks great in my house, and totally solves the gender balance concern. So, I see that I am Pygmalion. Welcome home, Monsieur Blue.
Jean and Floating
I recently showed my piece Floating at the NAWA annual show. It was well attended and exciting to hang out in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, Chrystie Street on the Lower East Side. Jean Georges Vongerichten restaurant, and elegant rooftop bar.
Friends, take a look at my pastels. I’m indulging my passion for color by making clouds. A completely new medium and one I am not studying, I am just doing. Like cooking. And it can be completed in hours, not months like sculpture. So it’s a fun balance when I’m concentrating on fingers and toes.
Thanks for your interest in my work. I’m working on 2 right now, sculpting from both homes.
Jean