The JKC Gallery is grateful to be the first to present the latest work from artist Stephanie Schwiederek.
Stephanie Schwiederek : A Hundred Thousand Tender Hours
October 20 – December 14, 2026
Reception: Friday November 20, 5:00-8:00pm with artist talk from 5:30-6:30
A Hundred Thousand Tender Hours presents photographs from Stephanie Schwiederek that trace the ongoing documentation of her mother, Anna. For years, Schwiederek referred to her mother as her muse, but that description only tells part of the story. What began as a record of her mother and her space gradually became a deeper confrontation with the complex relationship between mother and child. Photographing her mother became part of their shared life; a way to observe the tenderness, the repetition, and the quiet weight of home. Over time, the work expanded into something more reflective: a window into memory, a mirror of becoming, and a meditation on mortality.
Stephanie Schwiederek is an American multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, the moving image, writing, poetry, and bookmaking. Through themes of belonging, identity, memory, trauma, the archive, and family dynamics, Schwiederek explores the intersections of violence and intimacy, dysfunction and acceptance, and resignation and resilience.
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Schwiederek earned her BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 2018, where she received the Brovero Photography Prize. She completed her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2020. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally.
Based in New Jersey, Stephanie Schwiederek is an Adjunct Professor in the Photography Technology program in the Design & Media Studies Department at the County College of Morris and in the Photography program in the Fine Arts Department at Sussex County Community College.
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