Jennifer Seastone is a native New Yorker with roots in performance and visual objects. She has a BFA in experimental theater from NYU, an MFA from City College in Digital and Interdisciplinary Arts Practice and has just completed a yearlong designer maker course at Waters & Acland in the UK.

She started making wood objects building crates for art shipping at BoxArt in New York and began making wood sculptures prior to that. Before all of that she worked mostly making paper sculpture and conceptual performance around these installations. Prior to that she was an actress. 

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These seemingly disparate careers have shaped her aesthetic entirely. Each piece, whether furniture or sculpture has its own life hidden inside the grain, its own story, they all have their own gait, their own tone of voice. In her sculptures, she uses reclaimed wood and direct carving to reveal the hidden (and untranslatable) stories of the wood’s past lives. These pieces all are touchable and approachable. She brings that to her pieces now; except that they are made to be used. And there is craft present; a history of all the craftspeople who have come before her embedded in each dovetail.

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Seastone has had an extensive history as a performer and has shown her visual work at The Performance Arcade in New Zealand, in New York at The Invisible Dog and the Invisible Dog's Glass House, Uncanny Valley, Dixon Place.

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Contact me for inquiries: jenniferseastone (at) gmail (dot) com