Today we’d like to introduce you to Jeanée Redmond.
Jeanée, please kick things off for us by telling us about yourself and your journey so far.
I’ve known since I was sixteen that I wanted to spend my life working in clay. Since the start, I liked the extremes of clay. Pieces can last for thousands of years sunk to the bottom of the ocean or buried deep in the earth or they can be shattered and lost in a moment. But, the enduring draw of working in clay is that each piece is both a sculpture and a painting.
After getting my undergraduate and graduate degrees in ceramics and traveling around a few years for teaching jobs, I settled in Cambridge and have happily been a full time studio artist for over thirty-five years.
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
I create sculptures, vessels, and large scale wall pieces. Color, pattern, narrative and a receptiveness to unexpected connections are core to my work. The pieces are intricately glazed with collage-like vintage imagery of plants, animals, scientific notation, cartography and literature. Since 1990, a good portion of my ceramic work has been commissioned pieces, both private and corporate. These projects have ranged from platters given to Yo-Yo Ma and Emmanuel Ax on premiere performances to large scale site specific installations for corporations including Meditech Inc., Putnum Investments, Fidelity Investments, and Harvard University. “Skits”, a large wall installation for Fidelity has sixty sculpted tiles glazed with the comedy writings of my late brother, John Redmond, who wrote and performed in New York City in the mid 1980’s. A wall sculpture, “Recipes” is covered my mother’s hand written recipes. A large platter, “Modified Epley’s”, was made following a bout I had with benign positional vertigo.
In your view, what is the biggest issue artists have to deal with?
Space, time to do the work, where to show the work.
What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
Miller Street Studios (www.millerstreetstudios.net ) will be having their biennial Open Studios next Spring. I have three pieces (two watercolors and a large platter) at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem until the end of December. A large stacked bowl sculpture, “Science”, is part of the permanent collection at the Currier Museum in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Contact Info:
- Address: Miller Street Studios
11 Miller Street
Somerville, MA 02145 - Website: www.jeaneeredmond.com
- Email: jeaneeredmond@aol.com
- Other: www.millerstreetstudios.net
Image Credit:
Stewart Clements, Richard Hackel, Rob Sabal, and the artist.
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