Sterling, citrines, steel / 2016
One of my favorite textures to date.
Sterling, citrines, steel / 2016
One of my favorite textures to date.
I have work currently on view through February 15th at EatMetal, INC in Hoboken for their Arm Candy exhibition! Wishing I could travel out to NJ to see the space. Check EatMetal, INC out here.
Rameen Ahmed / Drew Curtright / Lisa Johnson / Tamar Navama / Cate Richards /
Sylvie Alusitz / Sally Hopkins / Kathryn Keller / Jennifer Park / Sonia Spano
Photo Credit: Elizabeth Tokoly, Director and Curator of EatMetal, INC.
Playing with electroforming. Copper, 2015.
Behind every good jeweler is an excellent photographer. Big thanks to Stephan Anderson-Story, who has been handling a lot of my documentation lately. I cannot rep his talent and professionalism enough.
http://www.stephanandersonstory.com
3 programs, 2 field recordings, 1 damp basement. We took advantage of those long summer days.
Due to better shipping options and a layout I like more, I've decided to move my shop. It can now be found at monumentajewelry.bigcartel.com
It's still under construction, but is coming together nicely. Keep a look out for more products soon!
Dropped off a commissioned peice to its new owner today - double men's ring, copper and latex. Latex is my new favorite material to work with - its flexibility allows me to experiment with designs easily.
A bunch of sawed copper halberd pendants on stainless steel cable chains. Around Spring Break I had the pleasure of visiting the St. Louis Art Museum - their armory collection contained many pole weapons with interesting head shapes. I sketched as much as I could.
Last Thursday was the opening of Ghost Gallery's "Bell Jar: A Group Exhibition", and I have several pieces in the show. If you live in the Seattle area I urge you to go check it out! This exhibition is a continuation of Ghost's series of shows featuring only artists identifying as female, which includes all exhibitions from March to October 2015 . I'm very pleased to be a part of this - I adore Ghost Gallery and will always visit when I'm in Seattle. Founded in 2006 by the very talented and savvy Laurie Kearney, GG is a retail and gallery space in a tucked away little corner of Capitol Hill. GG has featured many artists and jewelers I admire (Wolf and Sadie, Open the Cellar Door, Caitlin McCormick, The Small Beast) and I'm honored to be showing there with so many other fantastic female artists from around the world.
Sadly, having just gotten back from a trip to Seattle, I was not able to fly back out again so soon. Luckily, Ghost Gallery features all work online. You can see works from past and present exhibitions, as well as browse the shop.
Here are some shots of the three "contained ecosystems" I have on display, and you can see more pictures of these on my instagram, and shots of the show on Ghost Gallery's.
It's been a while since I've done a FF. This weekend, a selection of my small textured paintings - dubbed Textura - will be hanging in a gallery space in North Lawrence (right next to Tooter & Tillaye's) along with sculpture and paintings by Kris Kuksi. Here are some quick snapshots during a quiet moment.
I like to think of these as studies - little tests for some possible bigger work. The many layers of chemical media and natural material got me thinking about eventual ephemeral breakdown of the paintings. Bigger and safer may be in order.
Kicking myself for not posting about it sooner, but I had a great time selling prints, originals, patches, and jewelery (along with Myles Dunigan [wall] and Paige Hinshaw of Statuary Designs) at Vacant Farm's Holiday Art & Craft Sale this weekend. Thanks to all who came!
Vacant Farm is KC community art space facilitating and supporting all manner of artistic creation, education, and exhibition, located in an industrial patch in Westport. I felt very welcomed by all the artists involved, and hope to see them again!
Check out all that VF has to offer here: http://www.vacantfarmkc.com/
Painting II
Oil, sand, nest, quartz
2014
More of these after the Yule season is complete.
I've recently found solace in jewelry once more. These cast necklaces are the start of a body of work I'm currently developing highlighting the usage of peach pits during WWI, utilizing metals and 2D media. I'm very excited at this first step.
Strawberry Switchblade. They made poppy music so sweet and bouncy it makes your teeth hurt.
I've always loved the cover photograph for their 1985 eponymous album (photography by Peter McArthur and design by Chris Branfield). McDowell and Bryson's style was too cool for words - lying somewhere between gothic playground, art-punk, and Victorian Lolita.
A fresh genesis.