Meet the Artists:
AiB in Conversation with Jon Isherwood and Sandi Slone
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Jon Isherwood and Sandi Slone are long time friends of the Art-in-Buildings program, and are represented in the Francis J. Greenburger collection installed across Time Equities' buildings. In this week's Meet the Artists: AiB in Conversation, join Isherwood and Slone as they talk about moments of shift in content and creation in their work, and the environment surrounding these changes. The artists bring their insights into the changing nature of the art world, the impact of momentous events, and the adjustments they expect from our current quarantine environment. We'll discuss how communities of artists exchange ideas, and why these networks of exchange are important. Bring your questions and a drink to learn about their work and what Time Equities, Inc. Art-in-Buildings program is doing in our properties.
Jon Isherwood’s work has been widely exhibited in public museums and private galleries in the US, Canada, Europe and China. He is the recipient of a Jerome Foundation Fellowship, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of New York at Plattsburgh. His sculpture has recently been exhibited at Villa Strozzi, Florence, Italy, The National Archaeological museum, Florence Italy, Ping Yao II, China; The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum Boston Mass and in Belgrave Square, London, UK. He has had over 25 solo exhibitions, including Reeves Contemporary in NYC, John Davis Gallery in NYC; The C. Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore; Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum in Hamilton, OH. His work can be found in more than 25 public collections. Isherwood has completed over 30 commissions in the private and public sector including a recent commission for the US State department Art in Embassies program for the new Embassy in Oslo Norway, The Peninsula hotel, Beijing China, Public Art San Antonio, Fidelity investment UK, BCA, St Paul MN and The Woodner Memorial sculpture at the Evening Star building Washington DC. He teaches at Bennington College VT and is the President of the Digital Stone Project.
Even though Sandi Slone has often worked with oversized brushes, she long has had a predilection for intimate gestures and unexpected incidents that signal her preoccupation with visual strategies as metaphors. Slone’s paintings have since been the subject of over 40 solo exhibitions internationally and are held in numerous permanent museum collections that include the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain (MACBA); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH; the De Menil Family Trust, Paris— among many other private, corporate, and public institutions in the US, UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Poland, Canada, Korea, China. Sandi Slone is Professor Emerita of painting at the School of Museum of Fine Arts /Tufts University, Boston; she has been painting faculty in Harvard’s department of Visual and Environmental Studies, and in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Slone is a founding board member of Art Omi International Artists Residency and The Fields sculpture Park (1992-present) in Ghent, NY. She has been awarded a Ford Foundation Fellowship and received travel- research grants from the Clarissa Bartlett foundation, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and was awarded several residencies from Triangle Arts Association, among other institutions. Slone lives and works in downtown Manhattan since 1984 and in Chatham, New York.
Meet the Artist: AiB in Conversation is sponsored by the Time Equities Inc. (TEI) Art-in-Buildings. TEI is committed to enriching the experience of our properties through the Art-in-Buildings Program, an innovative approach that brings contemporary art by emerging and mid-career artists to non-traditional exhibition spaces in the interest of promoting artists, expanding the audience for art, and creating a more interesting environment for our building occupants, residents, and their guests.