Witness Mark with SR Lejeune

May 28, 2025

SR Lejeune’s artistic practice spans multiple disciplines, holding craft as a way of seeing and an approach to utility as both possibility and limitation. Sensitive to the relationships between fiction and function, invisibility and legibility, and hand and industry, SR creates perpetual prototypes of trans corporeality. Their sculptures utilize materiality to disrupt false binaries and embrace unfixed form.

In this artist talk, SR will share artworks made during their West Bay View Foundation fellowship at Dieu Donné influenced by the accumulated imprints of time on city sidewalks.

Their cumulative fellowship exhibition, witness marks, will be on view at Dieu Donné. An opening reception will be held Monday, March 31, 5:30 - 7:00 pm at Dieu Donné.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

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.

https://www.sarahroselejeune.com/