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B-PLOT makes coverings and other things.
Jess Blaustein (b. Philadelphia, PA) is a conceptual artist, maker, and educator. With backgrounds across architecture, craft, and the humanities, she transforms everyday and often discarded materials into various objects and environments from miniature to installation scale. Exhibitions include BravinLee programs, New York, NY; Collar Works, Troy, NY; Flux Factory, New York, NY; KinoSaito, Verplanck, NY; Field Projects, New York, NY; ICOSA Collective, Austin TX; Miniartextil, Como, Italy; San José Museum of Quilts and Textiles, CA; Craft Forms, Wayne PA; The Artist as Quiltmaker, Oberlin, OH; Materials Hard + Soft, Denton, TX; the Quilt Visions Biennials, San Diego, CA; and her recently commissioned site-specific installation at Hastings-on-Hudson's Village Hall, NY. Her work has been supported by The Mellon Foundation, the Getty Research Institute, The New School Green Fund, the Smithsonian Institution, and she is the recipient of the UK Fine Art Textiles Award 2022. She currently teaches research-based art practice at Montclair State University, and she is a Co-Director of PeepSpace, an artist-run space in New York. Jess holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the Hartford Art School and a PhD in Literature from Duke University. She lives and works in the lower Hudson Valley with a vintage Bernina 830, three boys, and a dog named after Djuna Barnes.
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Studio: 145 Palisade Street #406, Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522
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Why B-PLOT?
Plot as piece of ground, also storyline
To plot as to map-make, also to scheme
B is for sub- because less can be more
For secondary or supporting, like some say craft is to art
And because Plan B may have been the better plan all along
plot (v.) 1580s, "to lay plans for" (usually with evil intent); 1590s in the literal sense of "to make a map or diagram," from plot (n.). Related: Plotted; plotter; plotting.
plot (n.) Old English plot "small piece of ground," of unknown origin. Sense of "ground plan," and thus "map, chart" is 1550s; that of "a secret, plan, scheme" is 1580s, probably by accidental similarity to complot, from Old French complot "combined plan," of unknown origin, perhaps a back-formation from compeloter "to roll into a ball," from pelote "ball." Meaning "set of events in a story" is from 1640s. Plot-line (n.) attested from 1957.
plat (n.) "piece of ground," 1510s, a variant of plot (n.) assimilated to Middle English plat (adj.) "flat," which is from Old French plat "flat, stretched out" (see plateau (n.)). (Online Etymology Dictionary)
B Often indicating "second in order." B-movie is by 1939, usually said to be so called from being the second, or supporting, film in a double feature. Some film industry sources say it was so called for being the second of the two films major studios generally made in a year, and the one cast with less headline talent and released with less promotion. And early usage varies with grade-B movie, suggesting a perceived association with quality. B-side of a gramophone single is by 1962 (flip-side is by 1949).
B-girl, abbreviation of bar girl, U.S. slang for a woman paid to encourage customers at a bar to buy her drinks, is by 1936. (Online Etymology Dictionary)
subplot (n.) 1 : a subordinate plot in fiction or drama 2 : a subdivision of an experimental plot of land (Merriam-Webster)
subplot (n.) a part of the story of a book or play that develops separately from the main story (Cambridge Dictionary)