SR Lejeune
SR Lejeune (b. 1994, Boston, MA) is an artist based in Pine Plains, NY. They hold a BA with High Honors from Oberlin College, were a Core Fellow at the Penland School of Craft, and received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art in 2023. Lejeune was the 2023 West Bay View Foundation Fellow at Dieu Donné and a 2025 Windgate Artist-in-Residence at the School of Art + Design at SUNY Purchase. They have additionally completed residencies at the Dirt Palace, lower_cavity, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and Women’s Studio Workshop. Their recent solo exhibitions include sky light at CHAMBER (Holyoke, MA), contributing structure at Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (Boone, NC), tilt at the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at SUNY Purchase (Purchase, NY), and Witness Marks at Hesse Flatow (NYC, NY). They have taught workshops at the Penland School of Craft, Women’s Studio Workshop, SUNY Purchase, Dieu Donné, Bard College, Appalachian State University and the Yucca Valley Materials Lab. They are currently (slowly) building out a queer/trans focused manual machine shop and paper studio in upstate New York.
bearing, 2022. Manually machined brass, mild steel, stainless steel. Shifting dimensions, maximum expanded size 6 IN x 145 IN x 270 IN. Photograph at sunrise by SR Lejeune.
horizon line, 2023-2026. Manually machined mild steel, stainless steel, brass and aluminum. One copper rivet. Dimensions unfixed. Pictured at 6 IN x 31 IN x 206 IN. This work shifts in each new installation context. Photograph by CéCé Monteagudo.
tilt (ii), 2026. Manually machined brass, mirror polished stainless steel, reflected daylight. Pictured at 4 IN x 38 IN x 47 IN. Able to shift dimensions. Photograph by Margo Greb.
skylight (living room replica), 2026. Skylight 23 IN x 57 IN x 57 IN, installed inside the existing gallery drop ceiling. Pine moulding, mirrored acrylic, plywood, ceiling paint, compound, inkjet print, LED spotlights. Photograph by Jordan Benton.
skylight, 2023. Hardboard, spackling paste, shim stock, acrylic paint, ceiling paint, mirror polished stainless steel. .5~1.75 IN x perimeter of gallery x .25~2 IN (dimensions vary in accordance with the pre-existing “reveal.” Photograph by SR Lejeune.
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