ARTIST STATEMENT
My mixed media work honors the resilient narratives of my close female relatives. Through physical and psychological acts of construction and repair — painting, collage, print, and transfer — their stories materialize gendered experiences of loss and hope. In Sister, two women facing the viewer stand together, one supporting the other in a moment of loss.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jeanne Ciravolo is a mixed media artist whose recent exhibitions include the Louisiana Biennial at Texas Tech University, the Prisma Prize Exhibition in Rome, Italy; Tokens and Traces, a solo exhibition at Buckham Gallery in Flint, Michigan; and Trio, a three-person exhibition at the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art in Georgia. Group exhibitions of her work include the Yellowstone Art Museum, Coral Springs Museum, the Mattatuck Museum, and The Butler Museum of American Art. In 2020 she received the Walter Feldman Fellowship, juried by Ellen Tani, Assistant Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. She has been awarded residencies at the Hambidge Center, Kimmel Harding Nelson, the Anderson Center, and the Jentel Foundation.
Publications of her work include Manifest International Drawing Annual 15, Manifest International Painting Annual 10, and Rejoinder, a publication of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, in partnership with the Feminist Art Project.
Jeanne Ciravolo is an Assistant Professor in Residence and Director of the Alexey von Schlippe Gallery at the University of Connecticut.
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