{"id":12491,"date":"2025-07-07T11:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=12491"},"modified":"2025-07-02T11:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:31:15","slug":"claudette-schreuders-genesis-at-jack-shainman-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/claudette-schreuders-genesis-at-jack-shainman-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudette Schreuders, &#8216;Genesis&#8217; at Jack Shainman Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compact yet full-bodied, unexpressive yet communicating feeling, South African artist Claudette Schreuders\u2019 figurative wooden sculptures have an uncanny presence in her current solo show at <a href=\"https:\/\/jackshainman.com\/exhibitions\/claudette_schreuders_genesis\">Jack Shainman Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0Medieval church figures, Baule sculpture and historic wooden representations of people in western dress made for the colonial tourist trade influence the form of Schreuders\u2019 sculpture, but new pieces featuring the artist\u2019s son, husband, dog and herself at work on a sculpture keep the subject matter close to home.\u00a0 In this sculpture, simply titled \u2018Work,\u2019 Schreuders invites us into her studio to witness the process of creation, a sustained intimacy between maker and made.\u00a0 (On view in Chelsea through Aug 1<sup>st<\/sup>. Note summer hours.)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 3501px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/357d57aa-59b6-5336-8ff5-093924748125.jpg\" width=\"3501\" height=\"4778\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claudette Schreuders, Work, jelutong wood and paint, 36 5\/8 x 13 3\/8 x 19 \u00be inches, 2025.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compact yet full-bodied, unexpressive yet communicating feeling, South African artist Claudette Schreuders\u2019 figurative wooden sculptures have an uncanny presence in her current solo show at Jack Shainman Gallery.\u00a0Medieval church figures, Baule sculpture and historic wooden representations of people in western dress made for the colonial tourist trade influence the form of Schreuders\u2019 sculpture, but new &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/claudette-schreuders-genesis-at-jack-shainman-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Claudette Schreuders, &#8216;Genesis&#8217; at Jack Shainman Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[145,8448,4137,319,6899,10,1514,3061],"class_list":["post-12491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-chelsea-galleries","tag-claudette-schreuders","tag-genesis","tag-jack-shainman-gallery","tag-portrait-of-the-artist","tag-sculpture","tag-wood","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-3ft","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12493,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12491\/revisions\/12493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}