Jennifer McCandless

Satyrical, narrative and sometimes figurative ceramic sculptures

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  • Mired In Humanity
  • Artist Statement
  • CV
  • McCandless represented by Soapbox Arts
  • McCandless represented by A.I.R. NY
  • https://www.instagram.com/playing_in_the_m
  • Contact
  • Join Email List
  • New works posted to Instagram

Artist Representation

A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Soapbox Arts, Burlington, VT

ArtAxis Network of Ceramic Artists(National)

Awards and Residencies

Current:
Millay Colony, Folley Fields 2024 Artist in Residence, August, 2024

Sculptural Commission for the exhibit New Now: Strange States at the Shelburne Museum

Inaugural Environmental Resident Artist working on commissioned sculpture, The Strand Center

for the Arts, NY 2024, curator Carolyn Bauer

Past:
ChaNorth, Artist in Residence, 2022

MASS MoCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Artist in Residence, 2018

The Millay Colony, Artist in Residence, 2018

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Full Fellowship, Kiln God Award, 2017

Joseph and Anni Albers Founda@on Grant Recipient 2013-2015

Palmer Fellowship, Loomis Chaffee School, 2012-2017: Oaxacan Studies, Mexico 2011;

Abba House, Ghana 2012; Gaya Center, Bali, 2014

Named Nichols Fellow in Art, Loomis Chaffee School 2010-present

Michigan Mud, First Place Award, 2007

Michigan Arts League Award, 2003 and 2004

Michigan Council for the Arts, Creative Artist Grant, 2000

Artist Development Grant, Detroit, MI, 1996-1999

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Post Graduate Summer Fellow,1995

Otis/Parsons Award Exhibition, First Place Representing Sculpture, Lloyd Hamrol Juror, 1990

Selected Exhibitions

Upcoming:
-Juniper Sculpture Park, Plattsburgh, NY permanent sculpture commission (pollinator sculpture) June 2025
-Solo exhibition Soapbox Arts, Burlington. VT March, 2026
-A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY summer 2025

Current:

Fahrenheit 2024, The American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona,CA Jan- May 2024, juror Kathy

King, Head of Ceramics Program, Harvard

New Now: Strange States, The Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT (sculpture representing VT in

the show which runs through October 2024) curator: Carolyn Bauer

Living Among the Animals, Ceramic Sculpture by Jennifer McCandless, AVA Gallery,NH,  AVA Gallery, NH, Sept-Oct.2024, curator Samantha Eckhert

Millay Colony, Folley Fields Eco Artist in Residence, summer 2024

The Strand Center for the Arts: Eco Artist in Residence, summer 2024

A.I.R. Gallery, “Write me letters” you write to me, curated by Nicole Kaack

Past:

Run Amok: Ceramic Sculpture by Jennifer McCandless at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, 2023A.P.E. Gallery, Northampton, MA, Seeing Red, Feeling Blue, 2020

Melanie Carr Gallery, CT, Jennifer McCandless: Scenes from the Apocalypse, 2020

The Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, International Juried Ceramic Exhibition, 2019

Blue Line Arts, CA, Off Center, Curator: Tony Natsoulas, 2019

Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Birthday Suit, Curator: Benjamin Sudon, 2019

Gerald Epperson Gallery of Ceramic Art, Clay Matters, Curator: Beth Ann Gerstein,

Director of the National Museum of Ceramic Art, 2019

Ely Center of Contemporary Art, CT, Our Bodies Ourselves, 2019

A.I.R.National Member’s Exhibition, NY, 2019

The American Museum of Ceramic Art, CA, Fahrenheit, 2018

American Museum of Ceramic Arts, Visions in Clay, Curator: Beth Ann Gerstein, 2018

Art Centro Gallery, NY, Northeast Ceramic Sculpture Invitational, 2017

Main Street Arts, NY, Utopia/Dystopia, Curator: John Massier, 2017

Superfine Contemporary Art Fair, NY, 2017

Davenport Gallery, PA, Ceramic Innovations, Curator: Chris Gus@n, 2017

Freeform Art Space, NM, Leggo My Ego, 2016

Art Miami, X Contemporary, 2016

Garner Arts, NY, Light, Industrial, Ecosystem, 2015

Wayfarers Gallery, NY, Body Eden, 2015

The New Britain Museum of American Art, CT, Nor’easter, 2015

The Meijer Museum of Sculpture, MI, Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary

Sculpture, Curator: Joseph Becherer, 2013

Mendocino Art Center, National Ceramic Exhibition, Curator: Christa Assad, 2011-12

National Sculpture Society, Love, 2011

Silvermine Gallery, Clay Triennial, Curator: H. Hochner, Director, Museum of Art and

Design NY, 2011

Toy Bomb, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 1994

New Los Angeles, Reisse/LaBreque Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 1990

Jennifer Barry, O@s/Parsons Sculpture Award Exhibition, Los Angeles, 1990

 

Public Art Activities:

Working with scientists at Middlebury, the Xerces Society, and the University of Vermont in

creating new designs and workshops that utilize clay art production and team building. I am

designing large scale installations in communities where the members of the community create

the components of the art. The art is also doubling as pollinator habitat, supporting the

pollination of indigenous plants. I am installing a large scale habitat Sculpture in Plattsburgh, NY

at the Strand Center for the Arts, a commissioned piece on their grounds and in a new

pollinator garden they’ve created. Installations are also on the corporate grounds of Beta

Technologies (an electric plane manufacturer)
Middlebury College Environmental Science Capstone Community Partner, 2022-23
Weekly teaching young students and their mentors at King Street in Burlington, Vermont,

funded by Burlington City Arts Grant 2023-25.

 

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