Episode 66 - Jeanne Jaffe

Welcome Jeanne Jaffe.

If you are in Miami Saturday night make sure you mosey on over to Dot Fiftyone Gallery because you are going to see a wall of Jeanne Jaffe’s sculptures come alive. The exhibit is the genius of the artist along with gallery owners Issac Perelman Mizrahi and Alfredo Guzmán. Trust me you have never seen anything like it.

The entire exhibit, Betwixt and Between, by multidisciplinary artist Jeanne, explores the elusive space between sensation and language, memory and perception, object and image. It runs through January 20, 2027. Dot Fiftyone Gallery is located at 7275 NE 4th Ave, Miami. Monday to Friday, 12:00 pm – 6:30 pm, and Saturday, 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm.

Those of us who know Jeanne love her work. She is best known for her installation, sculpture, and stop motion animation.  She told me that her work is influenced by an interest in language, literature, psychology, and history and explores how we construct identity, our world and our value systems.

Jeanne is one of a kind. The number of sculptures, animations and paintings she turns out every year is unmatched by the creative community. I don’t know where she gets the energy. Always cheerful, she also shows up at many art related social functions.

Jeanne has been a recipient of fellowships and grants from the South Florida Cultural Consortium, National Endowment for the Arts, the Gottlieb Foundation individual support grant, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts), Mid/ Atlantic Foundation, the Virginia A. Groot Foundation, and the Center for Emerging Artists in Philadelphia. 

Jaffe has had 20 solo exhibitions including most recently at Dot Fifty-One in Miami, L’Space Gallery in NYC and Spinello Projects in Miami.  

Her works have been domestically and internationally exhibited in museums such as the Mino Washi Museum in Mino, Japan, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Museum in Philadelphia, the Woodmere Art Museum, James A. Michener Art Museum, Fuller Craft Museum, and the Hunterdon Art Museum. Her work is included in collections at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, at Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University, the Sculpture Garden at Abington Art Center, and the Zimmerli Art Museum. 

She has participated in artist residencies at Anderson Ranch artist residency program in Colorado, Deeering Estate artist residency in Miami, Mino Artist Residency in Mino, Japan, Yaddo in New York state, Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rutgers Innovative Printmaking Workshop in New Jersey, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her work has been reviewed Art in America and Sculpture Magazine.

Jaffe currently lives and works in South Florida.