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Twilight Off The Bow Installation View

The natural breeze through BWAC’s gallery animating Twilight Off The Bow in Wide Open 11, National Juried show is everything.

I couldn’t be happier with how the piece takes flight on a whisper of wind…

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Join Me for Virtual JC Friday

I will be give a studio tour during the live, virtual online arts festival on Zoom showcasing Jersey City arts.

See the recent fiber sculptures I have been working on in quarantine in response to recent events. I will be weaving and taking questions from the audience during this live event.

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Upcoming Shows…

Even in the middle of a global pandemic the show must go on… I have several upcoming shows opening in public and virtually. Here’s what’s coming up for me…

Virtual JC Friday

Friday, Sept. 11 at 7:00 PM EST / 4:00 PM PST

Free, Advance Registration Required HERE


New Directions 2020: 36th Annual International Exhibition of Contemporary Art

Barrett Art Center: 55 Noxon Street, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601

Exhibition Dates:  Oct 10 – Nov 14 , 2020

“Trench Town” Mixed Media Fiber 100’x 1/2″ 2019

CraftHiltonHead2020

7th National Juried Fine Art Craft Guild Exhibition

Arts Center of Coastal Carolina: 14 Shelter Cove Ln, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928

Exhibition Dates: 10/6/20 – 10/31/20

“Ultra Violet” Mixed Media Fiber 100’x 1/2″ 2020
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Request For Color Plastic Bags

I need plastic bags; produce bags, grocery bags, newspaper bags all sorts of plastic bags wanted.

If you you have a stash of plastic bags and are willing to part with your bounty of bags, I would be most grateful. I can use them for an installation project. I am weaving plastic bags and 500 feet of hollow braid polyethylene rope into Prayer Flags.

Recycle those bags into art. Accepting donations at Sky Garden Gallery 150 Bay Street, PH9, Jersey City NJ 07302

  • Prayer Flags In Progress
  • Prayer Flags in Sky Garden Studio
  • Detail View Prayer Flags
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A Big Beaded Bag

I have been working on a big beaded bag, bit by bit over the last couple months. It is still not done I have to finish the shoulder strap and sew on 1000 pony beads.

  • Beading
  • Bottle cap bead detail
  • My work desk
  • Detail transition between paper and beads
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Strange Fruit

  • Selecting materials is a process
  • Sorting and building by color story
  • Detail view of bottle cap beads
  • The beading draws you in
  • The ribbons are dripping color
  • Strange Fruit
A new body of work inspired by Billy Holiday “Strange Fruit” and the racial protests of 2020.

Southern trees bear a strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black body swinging in the Southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant South,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolia sweet and fresh,
And the sudden smell of burning flesh!

Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for a tree to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

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Meet My New StudioAssistant

I have a new studio assistant! YAY!

Meet Jeese Durost

Jesse is currently cutting ribbon, making yarn from recycled materials and drilling tens of thousands of bottle caps and corks I’ve been hoarding or received as gifts from hoarder friends these last 9 years. You know who you are and I thank you. XOXO.

Jesse currently lives and works in Queens, New York and rides his bike and takes the PATH to Sky Garden Gallery a couple days a week to help me out.

For his own artwork, Jesse utilizes found and common materials, to build precarious, architectural sculptures, paintings, videos and digital works that attempt to exist in a state of perpetual flux. He is interested in exploring the peripheral aspects of the exterior world, how they inform and are informed by interior, subliminal states of being.

Jesse received his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design in 1998. His work has been exhibited at The Soap Factory in Minneapolis, 33 Orchard in New York City, and 1430
Contemporary in Portland, Oregon.

To see some of Jesse’s personal works visit www.Jessedurost.com