JEANNE JAFFE
"Betwixt and Between"October, 2026
Dot Fiftyone Gallery presents Betwixt and Between, a new exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Jeanne Jaffe exploring the elusive space between sensation and language, memory and perception, object and image.
Inspired by psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas’s concept of the “unthought known”—deeply felt experiences that shape us before they can be articulated—Jaffe creates tactile, hybrid sculptures through an intuitive, haptic process of hand-building. The forms emerge as ambiguous, almost living presences, carrying traces of memory, emotion, and transformation.
Paired with looping stop-motion animations, the sculptures take on a second life. The videos act as “object biographies,” revealing movements, associations, and latent narratives held within the physical forms. In this interplay, Jaffe transforms the artwork from a noun into a verb—from a static object to an experience that is constantly unfolding.
Large-scale prints extend this dialogue between sculpture, image, and animation, creating a space where meaning remains betwixt and between—felt before it is understood, and always in the process of becoming.
About Jeanne Jaffe
Jeanne Jaffe is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses installation, sculpture, printmaking, and stop-motion animation. Her work is informed by an ongoing interest in language, literature, psychology, and history, exploring how identity, perception, and systems of value are constructed.
Jaffe has received fellowships and grants from the South Florida Cultural Consortium, National Endowment for the Arts, Gottlieb Foundation, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Foundation, and Virginia A. Groot Foundation, among others. She has presented more than twenty solo exhibitions, most recently at L’Space Gallery in New York and Spinello Projects in Miami.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at institutions including the Mino Washi Museum in Mino, Japan; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia; Woodmere Art Museum; James A. Michener Art Museum; Fuller Craft Museum; and Hunterdon Art Museum. Her work is held in collections including the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Alfred Ceramic Art Museum at Alfred University, the Sculpture Garden at Abington Art Center, and the Zimmerli Art Museum.
Jaffe has participated in artist residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado, Deering Estate in Miami, the Mino Artist Residency in Japan, Yaddo in New York, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Rutgers Innovative Printmaking Workshop, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, among others. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America and Sculpture Magazine. Jaffe lives and works in South Florida.