Frances Jetter: When I first began making bronzes, I used the foundry at the School for the Visual Arts, but it's closed now. You could do your own casting--it was marvelous. Now I go to Tallix where they cast the work for me under my direction. They're exceptionally skillful and cooperative--but I do miss the immediacy of doing it myself.
Frances Jetter: In making Bed, I used a thin (1/100th inch) sheet wax to help make the drapery surface of this sculpture. You melt the wax slightly with a hair dryer then apply it. The basic structure for the sculpture was styrofoam. Then I applied the softened wax to the horizontal area.
Frances Jetter: Sometimes a work will develop during the process of casting a piece. In Balanced on Nose the long support structure started out as a short venting gate. I decided to extend the gate and try to balance the piece. And I found it funny.
Frances Jetter: I like to look at sculpture by Medardo Rosso and Tony Cragg. I like Giacometti and try very hard not to look like him. At the moment, I mostly look at ancient Chinese vessels and at central African and Oceanic art.
Frances Jetter: The head clapper in Hanging Bell Torso is funny and sad at the same time. The clanging is the relentless racket of introspection.
Frances Jetter Selected Collections:
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard, University, MA
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
New York Public Library Print Collection, NYC
Grinnell College Print & Drawing Collection, IA
Frances Jetter Illustration Awards & Publications:
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)--fellowship for printmaking (2003)
As well as:
Graphis, Print, Communication Arts, Society of Publication Designers, Society of Newspaper Designers, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, Outstanding American Illustrators Today--Tokyo, and Two Hundred Years of American Illustration
Frances Jetter has served on the faculty of School of Visual Arts since 1979 and visiting artist at:
Smithsonian Resident Associate Program
Rhode Island School of Design
Washington University
Montclair State University
Savannah College of Art & Design
Ringling School of Art & Design
Virginia Commonwealth University
University of Connecticut
University of Buffalo
Syracuse University
Narae Design Culture, Seoul, Korea
BIDDINGTON'S CREATIVE PROCESS Archives:
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Nancy Azara Sculptor
Tova Beck-Friedman Sculptor & Mixed-Media Artist
Todd Bellanca Abstract Painter
Carol Bruns Bronze Figurative Sculptor
James Burnett Non-Objective Painter
Cynthia Capriata Peruvian Painter & Printmaker
Catalina Chervin Argentine Surrealist Artist
Diane Churchill Expressionist Painter
John Clem Clarke Pop Artist
Lisa Dinhofer Illusionist Painter
Tom Duncan Narrative Polychrome Sculpture
Michael Eastman Faux-Primitive Painter
Lynne Frehm New York Abstract Painter
Betsey Garand Minimalist Painter & Fine Art Printmaker
Mary Teresa Giancoli Personal Documentary Photographer
Debora Gilbert-Ryan New Image Painter
Janet Goldner African-Influenced Steel Sculpture
Harry Gordon Monumental Sculpture
Marilyn Greenberg Narrative Abstract Painter
Patricia Hansen Portrait and Still Life Painter
Richard Heinrich Welded Steel Sculpture
Charles Hewitt Painter & Monotype Printmaker
Diane Holland Intermedia Collage Artist
GH Hovagimyan Pop/Conceptual Artist
LA Hughes Pop Artist
Frances Jetter Bronze Sculptor & Editorial Illustrator
Scott Kahn Fantasy Painter
Susan Kaprov Digital Printmaker and Abstract Painter
Babette Katz Narrative Printmaker and Book Artist
Richard Mock Abstract Painter & Linocut Printmaker
Maureen Mullarkey Figure Paintings
Bill Murphy Contemporary Realist Painter
Jim Napierala Abstract Painter
Frances Pellegrini New York City & Fashion Photographer
Joseph Reeder Cross Media Artist Paintings & Ceramics
Laura Shechter Contemporary Realist Painter
Annemarie Slipper Figurative Bronzes & Ceramic Sculpture
Gary Slipper Fantasy Painter
Margaret Speer Landscape & Travel Paintings
Serena Tallarigo Marble Sculptor
Rein Triefeldt Kinetic Sculpture
Vivian Tsao Painter of Light
Nancy Van Deren Contemporary Painter
Joan Berg Victor Drawings from Nature
Edward Walsh Figurative Sculpture
Kate Wattson Contemporary Colorist Painter
Betty Winkler Organic Minimalist Painter & Printmaker