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Jeanne Silverthorne’s works now on display in “Women’s Work” at the Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown

(plus bonus images from a recent exhibition in Kilkenny, Ireland)

June 9, 2022 by Jeff Edwards
Wall-mounted relief sculpture of light blue flowers with purple stamens emerging from a white baroque frame, with small black insects crawling on the flowers and frame

Jeanne Silverthorne, Fluorescent Purple with Ants and Beetles, 2016, Platinum silicone rubber, fluorescent pigment, wire, 24.25 x 20.5 x 5 inches

Credit: Jeanne Silverthorne

Work by faculty member Jeanne Silverthore is now on display as part of “Women’s Work,” a group exhibition at the Lyndhurst Mansion in Tarrytown, New York that

tracks the deep, pervasive, and continuing influence of the historic female domestic craft tradition in the practice of contemporary women artists and invites new investigations into the position of women in the contemporary art world. These historic and contemporary works by women artists will be on view this summer.

The exhibition also includes works by Kara Walker, Cindy Sherman, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold, Yoko Ono, Kiki Smith, Sabrina Gschwandtner, Paula Hayes, and others. You can read more about it, see some of the works on display, and learn about various options for visiting on the Lyndhurst Mansion website. A recent New York Times review by Laurel Graeber also includes additional background on the exhibition and the history it covers.

Two works by Silverthorne (Victoria, 2006, and Highly Magnified Fingertip Skin with Picture Light, 1998) were also recently on display in the exhibition “Personae” at the Butler Gallery Museum in Kilkenny, Ireland, as part of an ongoing presentation of works from the museum’s Permanent Collection. You can see them in the gallery below, and read more about the exhibition at the link above.

Cream colored statue of a woman standing in a rigid upright pose in slacks and a short-sleeved collared shirt. Her hair is colored black and she is wearing a red bracelet on her left wrist

Victoria, 2006, rubber, hair, phosphorescent pigment, 6.5 inches tall, Butler Gallery Museum.

Credit: Jeanne Silverthorne
A rectangular brown rococo frame contains an oval-cut mat; a mass of mossy, fungus-like forms protrudes through the oval opening.

Highly Magnified Fingertip Skin with Picture Light, resin, 1998, Private Collection. 

Credit: Jeanne Silverthorne