J Stoner Blackwell

Works
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Neveruses: Beyonder, 2021
    Neveruses: Beyonder, 2021
  • J Stoner Blackwell, R.O.I/ J.O.M.O., 2020
    R.O.I/ J.O.M.O., 2020
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Neveruses (College Drive), 2019
    Neveruses (College Drive), 2019
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Neveruses (Matt Drive), 2019
    Neveruses (Matt Drive), 2019
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Neveruses (Overlea Road), 2019
    Neveruses (Overlea Road), 2019
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Neveruses (Rice Lane), 2019
    Neveruses (Rice Lane), 2019
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Rich Exhale Net, 2019
    Rich Exhale Net, 2019
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Vital Flush Net, 2019
    Vital Flush Net, 2019
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Neveruses (Contained), 2014
    Neveruses (Contained), 2014
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Plastic Basket (Incy Chinese), 2013
    Plastic Basket (Incy Chinese), 2013
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Plastic Baskets (Green Gold), 2013
    Plastic Baskets (Green Gold), 2013
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Archie, 2009
    Archie, 2009
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Danny, 2009
    Danny, 2009
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Lucky, 2009
    Lucky, 2009
  • J Stoner Blackwell, Pigeons on Square, 2003
    Pigeons on Square, 2003
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.

 

In 2016 they completed a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, New Haven, CT and, in the same year, their work was the subject of a solo exhibition, Neveruses Report Progress, at the Museum of Art and Design, New York. In 2020 Blackwell had a solo exhibition at the Bennington Museum entitled Neveruses: Beyonder. Blackwell’s work has been exhibited in public institutions, including Museum Bellerive, Zurich (2011) and Norwich Art Gallery (2007) and in solo shows at Kate MacGarry, London (2020); Salon 94, New York (2013); John Tevis gallery, Paris (2011) and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York (2009).  

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