MEND & JEST
Jaclyn Guido + Corinne Beardsley
September 26 – November 7, 2026
Opening Reception
Saturday September 26, 5-8pm
Roundtable discussion
Sunday October 4, 3-5pm
On view during Open Hours, Bushel programs, by chance, and by appointment
(for appointments, email info@bushelcollective.org)
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Bushel is pleased to present a two-person exhibition of sculptures by Jaclyn Guido and ceramic works by Corinne Beardsley. In Mend & Jest, two different bodies of work engage with ideas of the trickster’s shifting allegiances and the reconstruction of disassembled bodies.
Mercurial characters emerge from the abstracted materials in each artist’s body of work. Corinne’s clown faces appear magically from their splitting inception and then jest; extreme expressions of stretched earthy ceramic materials. Jackie’s assembled bodies slouch and float with ambivalence. Their burned remnants and crafted pieces are held together by tender intervention, creating a delicate allusion to regeneration.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Jaclyn Guido’s assemblage sculpture gingerly confronts the pervasive value of dominance and its effects. While the culture at large witnesses those effects play out on a public scale across media platforms, Jaclyn’s work takes a more intimate look at the effects within the privacy of the domestic front: one in which we all have actual influence. She offers these bodies as a way to envision what might result if tropes of power and dominance were deeply reworked, and tenderly reassembled them into something softer, lighter and less threatening. She asks the viewer, can they still function?
Through an iterative process of collage, drawing, sculpting, and experimenting with object juxtapositions, she mines for forms (real and imagined), creates meaning, and develops narrative. In this body of work, a domineering father character emerges. Similar to Louise Bourgeois’ “Destruction of the Father,” he is subjected to forces that dismember. Unique to Jackie’s process, her task is to re-assemble; modifying parts or making new ones altogether. Rural, domestic artifacts anchor the work in domestic life and allude to a pre-industrialized era of history. Ceramic shell casts respond to the poles of aggression and withdrawal created relationally by domineering behaviors. Flowing fabric works as a gentle, directional force, while wool cushions and holds. A balloon and marbles offer levity and play. Together, these assemblies create bodies that can now heal, rest, and play.
Jackie (b. 1985, Baltimore) formally launched her studio practice following an accomplished career as a spatial designer (window displays and stores) for high-end global fashion brands. Her foundational body of work, conceived and fabricated five years ago, serves as the catalyst for her current practice. She received formal training in visual arts and design at Rhode Island School of Design, and in ceramics at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City. Her work has been exhibited at Bushel Collective in Delhi, NY, Atlantic Gallery in Chelsea, NY, Waverly Street Gallery in Bethesda, MD, and Neoteric Fine Art in Amagansett, NY. She lives and works in the Catskills.
Corinne Beardsley connects embodied memories to nature through material gestures in sculpture, environmental installations, and performance. Ceramic designs are splayed open in visceral cross-sections; time and place embedded in ceramic strata. “Send in the clowns” is intended to distract and entertain during traumatic experiences. Considering how culturally this removes us from the darkness of our time, and also is a channel to parody and release the grotesque edges of human nature. Corinne’s curiosity for the magic in masquerade and the transformation of spirit in disguise fuels her pursuit in this new series – to harness the duality of playful clown characters that incite discomfort with their extreme expressions and rebuttal to convention. These abstract ceramic slab designs are layers of colored porcelain and glaze, sliced and stretched revealing embedded crushed glass, rocks and beach sand. The process and alchemy of materials are alive with the chance and spontaneity that clown performances possess, surprising the audience and artist with the twists to the script.
Corinne (b.1985) is from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and received a MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from Hartford Art School. Select solo and group exhibitions include Dorsky Museum (NY), Good Naked Gallery (N/A), N/A Project Space (NY), Silver Art Projects (NYC), Army of the Frogs (NY), Holland Tunnel Revisited (NY), Practice Gallery (PA), ADS Gallery(NY), Mother in Law’s (NY), Field Projects (NYC), Moisturizer Gallery (NY), Sargent Daughters/Shrine (NYC), Real Art Ways (CT), M16 Artspace (AU), Sawtooth Gallery (AU), and Salisbury University Gallery (MD). She has been awarded fellowships and residencies including at the Vermont Studio Center, Byrdcliffe Woodstock Guild (NY), Red Lodge Clay Center (MT), Babayan Culture House (Turkey), Canberra Potters (AU), Central Academy of Fine Art (China), University of Tasmania (AU) and Poh Chang University(Thailand). Corinne has taught sculpture and ceramics at NYAA, and Pratt University, Salisbury University, and UM Eastern Shore. and continues teaching workshops in community ceramic studios. Currently she co-organizes Gold Star Fridge Gallery, and lives in Hudson Valley.