J Stoner Blackwell

J Stoner Blackwell

BornNationalityBased In
1977N/AN/A
Biography

J Stoner Blackwell was born in 1977 in New Orleans, USA. They live and work in Bennington, Vermont, USA where they are a Faculty Member in Visual Arts at Bennington College. Blackwell has collected plastic carrier bags since 2004, amassing a supply of material that sits ambiguously between waste and necessity. Reinventing materials that are seen as both environmentally toxic and morally compromised is contral to their practice. Blackwell's recent works, Neveruses (never·uses), employ methods including embroidery, knitting, weaving and darning which are collaged together to create lumpish mask-like objects. They invert painting conventions by disordering the traditional protocols of form, use, and meaning, questioning the gendered and hierarchical organisation of artistic forms. ...

Selected Artworks
Neveruses (College Drive)
J Stoner Blackwell
Neveruses (College Drive), 2019
58 x 46 x 8cm
Neveruses (Matt Drive)
J Stoner Blackwell
Neveruses (Matt Drive), 2019
63.5 x 50.8 x 6.3cm
Gallery Representation
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