JeanCherie spent over thirty years sculpting for movies, television, animatronics, and large-scale installations, specializing in enlarging and duplicating fine art sculpture. Her versatility and ease across mediums grew from her early years working in Hollywood as a studio sculptor, where close collaboration with production designers, art directors, engineers, directors, actors, and fellow sculptors honed both her technical mastery and her humility.
From tiny design maquettes for theme parks to massive prehistoric living rooms (The Flintstones), JeanCherie has sculpted nearly everything imaginable—and plenty that isn’t.
Over the past fifteen years, her focus has shifted to her own figurative fine art practice, working primarily in ceramic, as well as bronze and stone. Her work is deeply rooted in portraiture and the human form, guided by an ongoing exploration of identity, presence, and inner life.
Now based in Vallejo, California, JeanCherie is a highly active member of the local creative arts community. In 2015, she completed a six-foot-tall public cement sculpture of a mother and child, a work that has been warmly embraced by the Vallejo community and reflects her long-standing commitment to public art.
At Mare Island Art Studios, JeanCherie plays a key leadership role in Public Art and Placemaking, Public Outreach, and the Gallery & Installation Team, while also serving as the studio’s Shipyard Historian. Her deep knowledge of Mare Island’s history, combined with decades of large-scale production experience, helps ground the studios’ work in both place and legacy.
JeanCherie describes her approach to figurative sculpture as an inquiry into human presence:
“I am compelled to explore the depths of the human map—the persona, and the outer face and form we present to the world. In so doing, I hope to hold up a mirror that reflects the Soul and Spirit to the beholder.”
