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| French-born artist Sylvaine Sancton studied painting, sculpture, and mosaics at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and began her professional career in the theater. Named assistant to the artistic director of the Comédie Française in 1973, she worked at the prestigious national theater until 1979. During this time, she also worked on projects for the Opéra de Paris, the Opéra Comique, the Compagnie Renaud-Barrault, the Roland Petit Ballet Company, French national television, and Paramount Pictures, among others. Moving to the U.S. in the early 1980s, she taught theatrical costume design at Sarah Lawrence College. Since the 1990s, she has concentrated mainly on sculpture. Influenced by such artists as Henry Moore, Constantin Brancusi, and Louise Bourgeois, Sancton works on the borderline between figurative and abstract. Since moving to New Orleans in 2007, she has pursued a parallel path as an art photographer and currently has a photo book under contract. Solo shows of her sculpture were presented at the Cole Pratt Gallery in 2007 and 2010. In 2009, the Maison Henri IV, a French national museum, held a major retrospective of her sculpture. In 2012, her work was featured at the NOLA NOW show at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans and the SCOPE show in Miami. In 2013, the Georges Gallery in New Orleans held an exhibition of her sculpture and photography. Her sculptures have also been shown at the New Orleans Museum of Art and are part of the permanent collection of Tulane University. |  |