Jennifer Seastone is a native New Yorker with roots in performance and visual objects. She recently completed the yearlong designer maker course at Waters & Acland in the UK. She started making wood objects building crates and inner boxes for an art shipping company in New York and began making wood sculptures prior to that. Before all of that she worked mostly making paper sculpture and installations and conceptual performances around these installations. Prior to that she was an actress.

These seemingly disparate careers have shaped her aesthetic entirely. Each piece, whether furniture or sculpture, has its own life hidden inside the grain. In her sculptures, she uses reclaimed wood and direct carving to reveal the hidden (and untranslatable) stories of the wood’s past lives. These pieces all are created to be touchable and approachable. She brings that to her furniture making now. And there is craft present; a history of all the craftspeople who have come before her embedded in each.