Selected Works

“Emergence” Candleholders, Blackened Mild Steel w/ Brass Bobeche, edition 30

About Jeffrey

Artisans spend their entire lives finding avenues in which they can express their creative energies and perfect their chosen craft. The mastery of forging steel is quite evident when we set our sights on the work of Jeffrey D. Jubenville

 Jeffrey Jubenville began his art career as a painter and illustrator. In 1977, the artist made a decision to trade in his brushes and pencils for hammers and blow torches. Ironwork became his career focus. This pivotal decision led him to SUNY Brockport and tutelage under his sculptural professor, Albert Paley. Little did the student (or the professor) realize that this would be the beginning of a very close professional relationship and friendship that would encompass over 35 years.

Jeffrey assisted Paley in all of his projects; the building of his monumental sculptures, in helping to engineer the complicated installations and delivery of all of Paley’s works which many needed assembly on site. Handling monumental sculptures as well as the smaller metal works was no easy task as the scale, weight and logistics for seeing these sculptures delivered and placed in their new sites required much forethought and planning. Jubenville served as Albert’s right hand man on many of these projects. As a result of this worldly experience, Jeffrey mastered the various traditional and contemporary forging methods and he is now utilizing them in his own personal career following the closing of Paley Studios in Rochester, NY in the fall of 2019.

In addition to opening his new artist studio, Black North Arts, Jubenville can be found working as the blacksmith on the grounds of the Genesee County Museum and Village in Upstate New York where the artist had his initial career start in 1980 prior to his career with Paley. The sculptor is now enjoying utilizing his newfound freedom and experience to begin his own much deserved foray into the fine art world. He marks this venture by introducing to the world his premiere pair of candleholders amply titled, “Emergence” blackened