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Art & Art History




    Professor of Art
    Art and Art History Department
    860.685.3525


    BA Brown University
    MFA UMASS Amherst
 
Sculpture and Installations   http://jschiff.web.wesleyan.edu
email: jschiff@wesleyan.edu
mailing address: Art and Art History Department
courses taught:
areas of expertise:   My work explores the contingencies of order and disorder, and offers speculations about the complex ways in which the things of the world cohere, conglomerate, fragment, proliferate, and disperse. For the faculty exhibition, I have produced two
works about stasis and movement, the propensity for pieces of the world to shift around, and the play between the desire to exert control and the temptation to escape it. Mobile Global is a prototype for a work envisioned to be much larger, in which several spools dispense carpeting onto mobile planes to produce a fragmented floor of shifting patterns. The numerous parts of the floor can roll about, changing the configuration of the floor and the juxtapositions of its colors and patterns.

In Vertical Hold, I juxtapose sculpture's logic to that of photography. Digital images of clouds appear to be held in fixed positions by steel brackets attached to
long rods leaning from the floor. I am interested in the ease with which photographs fix the relationships between dynamic elements, whereas the physical realities of sculpture resist the illusion of arrested time.
research interests: Jeffrey Schiff is a sculptor/installation artist. He has received numerous fellowships, including the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Senior Scholar Fulbright Fellowship to India, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Schiff has exhibited his work widely, in New York City at the Sculpture Center, Stux Gallery, and Bose Pacia Gallery, in New Delhi at Nature Morte Gallery, and in institutions such as the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Real Art Ways, and the Katonah Museum of Art. He has produced permanent public commissions at the Boston South Station Railroad Terminal and New Britain Courthouse (in process). He recently collaborated with Wesleyan students to produce The Library Project at Wesleyan University.
office hours:   Fall 09 Sabbatical 103 SN