SR Lejeune: Witness Marks
SR LEJEUNE: WITNESS MARKS
2023 WEST BAY VIEW FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION
On View: March 31 - June 6, 2025
In a recent body of work begun during their time as a West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné, artist SR Lejeune returned to their hand papermaking practice after years of predominantly working in manually machined metal. The exhibited works, witness marks, elaborate on moments collected from city sidewalks. Some compositions closely iterative, others more abstract, these works approach “fabrication” as both a technical act of making and a means of making up, of imagination.
SR Lejeune (b. 1994, Boston, MA) is an artist currently based in Pine Plains, NY. They received a BA with High Honors from Oberlin College (2015), were a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft (2017-19) and hold an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art (2023). They were the Books and Paper Studio Coordinator at the Penland School of Craft from 2018 to 2021, and have taught workshops at Penland and Women's Studio Workshop. SR was the 2023 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné, a 2024 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Fellow, and a resident artist at Women’s Studio Workshop in 2025. Recent solo exhibitions include “sky light” at CHAMBER lower_cavity (Holyoke, MA) and “witness mark” at Dieu Donné Jordan Schnitzer Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). They are currently building out a manual machine shop in upstate New York.