Artists at Work: Claudine Arendt with Jess Wilcox

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For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Claudine Arendt will be in conversation with curator Jess Wilcox about her wide range of sculptural projects inspired by scientific data, human behavior, and the natural world. Among the works discussed will be Arendt’s large scale outdoor fountain Ahead of Time, The Times Ahead, which squirts water spray out of noses that are attempting to hold in sneezes as an absurdist tribute to the social faux pas of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Through a porcelain cast, a set of vessels in the shape of the sound waves made by microscopic sea creatures known as zooplankton, that has chaetognaths, salps, medusae, euphasiid, appendicularian and copepods shaping and adorning espresso cups, beer glasses, ketchup-dippers and whipped cream holders. 

Claudine Arendt is a Luxembourgish artist based in Amsterdam. She performs and exhibits in public space, has presented at science and ceramics conferences, and collaborates with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. She was awarded the Stipendium for Emerging Artists by Mondriaan Fonds, has stayed in residence at the European Ceramic Workcenter (EKWC) and installed a fountain sculpture at Oeuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte. She received her B.F.A from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam and an M.A. in European Film and Media Studies from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Jess Wilcox is an Independent Curator. From 2016 to 2022, she was Curator and Director of Exhibitions at Socrates Sculpture Park. There she has curated several group and solo exhibitions of work by Helio Oiticica, Guadalupe Maravilla, Virginia Overton and Nari Ward, as well as the Socrates Annual exhibitions.  From 2011-2015 she worked at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum organizing public programs and public artworks and where she co-curated Agitprop!, an exhibition of historical and contemporary political art. She has curated shows at Abrons Art Center, ISCP and SculptureCenter, among other venues.  She has a BA from Barnard College and a Master’s degree from Bard CCS. 

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This program is supported, in part, by the Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Legislature; The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; and William Talbott Hillman Foundation.