Vanitas! by Jeanne Silverthorne
Intersections Contemporary Art Projects
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Silverthorne uses rubber to create floral reliefs and objects typically found in an artist’s studio. Her sculptures, along with the modernist still lifes from the collection with which they are interspersed, are vanitas—meditations on the brevity of life.