Domestic Labor
Totems
new works by
Jane Schiffhauer
curated by
Jess Nickel
Exhibition on view September 3 - October 10, 2021
Gallery hours: Friday - Sunday,12PM-5PM
currently by appointment only, email hellosatorprojects@gmail.com
Opening reception: Friday, September 3rd from 6PM - 9PM
1607 SE 3rd Ave, 97214
Domestic Labor Totems is an homage to the specific types of labor done majoritively by women, rooted in the artist’s own past experiences as a youth mopping floors at fast food restaurants. Considered the primary form of “invisible labor”, women perform the majority of the domestic labor, paid and unpaid, around the world. Schiffhauer seeks to make the invisible, visible and employs the techniques of beauty and the grotesque to shine a light on these objects of labor. Reclaiming the form of the mop she sees the potential for what could be and through care and attention makes individuals of the collectively unseen.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jane Schiffhauer is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes sculptures, prints, and installations to explore ideas of the body, memory, and trauma. For several years, her sculptural work has focused on using fibers in a nod to the long history of craft-based work traditionally done by women. By exploring the material language of fibers and questioning the material’s inherent properties she seeks to subvert and reimagine constructs of gender, beauty and power. Originally from New York, Schiffhauer has called Portland, OR home for the past 20+ years where she raised her two children. She earned her MFA in Visual Studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art after earning a B.S. degree from Syracuse University in addition to BFA study at Kent State University in graphic design and photography studies at Parsons in Paris, France. She has shown locally and nationally, is in numerous private collections and has been awarded several artist residencies in the U.S.