J Stoner Blackwell
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Neveruses: Beyonder, 2021
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R.O.I/ J.O.M.O., 2020
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Neveruses (College Drive), 2019
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Neveruses (Matt Drive), 2019
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Neveruses (Overlea Road), 2019
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Neveruses (Rice Lane), 2019
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Rich Exhale Net, 2019
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Vital Flush Net, 2019
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Neveruses (Contained), 2014
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Plastic Basket (Incy Chinese), 2013
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Plastic Baskets (Green Gold), 2013
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Archie, 2009
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Danny, 2009
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Lucky, 2009
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Pigeons on Square, 2003
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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J Blackwell
R.O.I./J.O.M.O 11 January - 8 February 2020 -
J Blackwell
Never Uses 17 January - 1 March 2014 -
J Blackwell
15 January - 28 February 2010 -
J Blackwell
6 July - 5 August 2007 -
Diamonds for Workers
Anat Ben David & Jet, Josh Blackwell, Chicks on Speed, Pil & Galia Kollectiv, Alexander Petlura, Francis Upritchard, Karl Fritsch 3 June - 10 July 2005 -
J Blackwell
16 January - 22 February 2004