GoGo LoGo Volume 2, Issue 14
June 22 - July 5, 2000
Art - Jeanne Bacque
Sculpture of Size
Valerie van de Flier



Jeanne Bacque's first one-woman exposition in Colorado is a small show in the gallery of the Rocky Mountain College of Arts. It's an exhibition of five of Jeanne's recent sculptures. The sculptures are small sized, and are used as models. The sculptures will later on be made again into a large scale object. All the sculptures shown in the exhibition started out with sketches.

"This is the first time I've worked this way," said Jeanne. "It was mostly because I didn't have a studio where I could make the big sculptures. I started out drawing them and then made them small size, just so I could do something. I was in a really small place."

"I just got a studio here in Denver. It's supposed to get real big now. I'll have to figure out the structure and the surface again though. The sculptures can't get too heavy. Often the big ones end up outside. I'll also have to consider the weather, and how the sculpture will hold up in that."

Jeanne came from a very artistic family. With her mom being a landscape painter and her dad an architect, she got in to the arts before she even learned to read and write. "It was almost required. Every trip we made involved a visit to a museum. Every park we went to involved taking a sketchbook. I do see a lot of that back in my work. The backgrounds I paint are often landscapes."

The big sculptures are a complete new thing for Jeanne. "My old work was completely different. It allowed me to sit and work on it." Now she has to figure out a way to make sure the sculpture will last for a long time first, before she can start working. The final pieces are usually made of stained and lacquered wood. "Eventually it'll still rot, which is kind of interesting. But that's not what I meant it to be."

"I got in to the bigger work through my membership of the Society for the Preservation of Humanity. A group of artists that have Sculpture Gardens all over the U.S. Those Sculpture Gardens pushed me to work bigger. That again led to making smaller pieces which wouldn't decompose."

One of the Sculptures in Jeanne's exposition at RMCA's made with that in mind. "The actual sculpture was 15 feet tall. It was completely rusted and molded within a month. And it had to be there for two years."

Next to her artwork Jeanne currently works as a graphic designer. "That pays the bills, this unfortunately doesn't," Jeanne explained. "I'm working on my Masters Degree now, so I can teach. Then I'll at least be 'in the arts' instead of tied to a chair."

More work of Jeanne Bacque will be shown in the Drive Up Gallery on the side of the building of RMCA in September of this year.


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