{"id":35471,"date":"2020-02-12T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=35471"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T19:44:42","slug":"jessica-calderwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/12\/jessica-calderwood\/","title":{"rendered":"jessica calderwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=35474\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35474\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jessicacalderwood-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jessicacalderwood-1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jessicacalderwood-1-34x300.jpg 34w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; I&#8217;m in love. This is the work of Indiana based artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicacalderwood.com\/\">Jessica Calderwood.<\/a>\u00a0Slip-cast vitreous china, steel, polymer clay, wool felt, sterling silver, plastic, milk paint and that&#8217;s only the list for ONE of the pieces up there! Here are Jessica&#8217;s words about her current sculptural work:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">&#8220;My most recent series uses devices, such as drapery and stylized botanicals, to block out, cover, and hide parts of the human form.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0These hybrid forms become a negation, a censoring or denial of what lies beneath. These anthropomorphic beings are at once, powerful and powerless, beautiful and absurd, inflated, and amputated.<br \/>\n\u200b<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em>I am interested in using traditional craft media, both for their creative properties, as well as their historical references to \u2018marginal craft forms&#8217;, including enamel, porcelain, felted wool, and polymer clay. Throughout this exploration, I have been working in a miniature scale, as well as large-scale figurative.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>{found via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/momentumgallery\/\">Momentum Gallery<\/a>, Asheville}<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; I&#8217;m in love. This is the work of Indiana based artist Jessica Calderwood.\u00a0Slip-cast vitreous china, steel, polymer clay, wool felt, sterling silver, plastic, milk paint and that&#8217;s only the list for ONE of the pieces up there! Here are Jessica&#8217;s words about her current sculptural work: &#8220;My most recent series uses devices, such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,285,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35471"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35475,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35471\/revisions\/35475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}