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Beyond Material

Dutch Contemporary Jewellery & Design
May12 - July 6, 2007 at Galeria Reverso

In the opening, which the Dutch Embassador in Portugal will attend, Lous Martin will do a brief presentation of the exhibition.
This exhibition is partly supported by the Dutch Embassy Portugal

Featured artists: Monika Auch, Leo Cahn, Hil Driessen, Simone van Eerdenburg, Cathelijne Engelkes, Sarah Enoch, Hilde Foks, Aleksandra Gaca, Mirjam Griffioen, Jozefien Gronheid, Herman Hermsen, Claudy Jongstra, Juul, Susanne Klemm, Birgit Laken, Chequita Nahar, Esther Nijdam, Carla Nuis, Ruudt Peters, Rebecca Potger, Janneke Raaphorst, Uli Rapp, Jürgen Reichert, Marieke Rongen, Isabella Scholtemeijer, Marijke Schurink, Maartje Sol, Marian Sturkenboom, Remco Swart, Marcella Tessari, Andrea Wagner, Francis Willemstijn, Mina Wu, Janneke Zantinge, Joanne Zwart

Emerging Voices Exhibit
April 28-May 12, 2007
Opening & Artist Reception: Sat., April 28, 2007 5:30-8:30 PM
Chemers Gallery Tustin CA USA

This juried exhibit is sponsored by the Metal Arts Society of Southern California also known as MASSC. The artists selected for this exhibit are: Mary-Austin Bame, Shirley Chu, Erin Elowe, Xochilt Figueroa, Dha-Mee Hahn, Bettina Karallus, Cheryl Lommatsch, Tara Magboo, Nelly Nye, Amparo Ochoa, Robert Osborn, Laura Prieto-Valesco, Diane Weimer, Julie Williams and Aaron Willoughby.
Chemers Gallery is located at 17300 Seventeenth St., Ste G, Tustin CA USA 92780, ph 714.731.5432

On April 21 & 22, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art will transform its gallery spaces to host a trunk show of contemporary art jewelry.

Jewelry artists include Olof Bridgeford, Heidi Abrahamson, Catherine Garrigan, Kim Nikolaev, Hoss Rogers, Don Kauss, James Faks, Beth Church, Jeff Klein, Pat Pruitt, Kenneth Johnson, Margaret Gordon and Beth Church.

“What Lies Beneath” - invitational artist jewelry exhibition curated by Allison Barnett
May 4-June 3, 2007
Patina Gallery - Santa Fe, NM USA

The exhibit will explore the theme of layers, and the translucency of stones and materials. Artists are invited to work with gemstones, veiling or revealing a hidden surprise, or pierced metals casting light on stones or other surfaces. Each artist has provided just one piece designed and hand fashioned exclusively for this exhibit. Allison Barnett, the owner of Patina Gallery, has a BFA in metalsmithing from Syracuse University and has an intimate understanding of the art. Her knowledge of the field and highly discerning aesthetic have been cultivated over time. For over eight years, Barnett has been selecting the jewelry artists who show work with Patina and is, in a way, already an experienced curator. “What Lies Beneath” is Barnett’s first thematically organized exhibition and the first exhibit for which the title curator has been applied. The artists invited to participate are among the most important working in art jewelry today. Their approaches and use of materials vary widely. Petra Class, for example, is known for the softness of her metal work, organic forms and use of raw precious stones. Pat Flynn works with blackened iron. Phil Poirier hand forges the challenging Damascus steel. Jeff and Susan Wise create highly colored, almost toy-like, kinetic pieces in high carat gold. Participants are Petra Class, Andy Cooperman, Sandra Enterline, Pat Flynn, Barbara Heinrich, Harold O’Connor, Tod Pardon, Phil Poirier, Todd Reed, Sam Shaw, Alexandra Watkins, Jeff and Susan Wise, Gill Galloway-Whitehead and Michael Zobel.

Jewellery Out of Context: An exhibition of New Zealand artists curated by Dr. Carol Shepheard & Peter Deckers

Object Space, Auckland (NZ) March 10- April 7
Mary E. Black Gallery, Halifax (CA) June 1- July 15
CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL) August 10- December 9

NZ Art Monthly article about the exhibition.

GOLDEN CLOGS, DUTCH MOUNTAINS: New Jewelry from the Netherlands

Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains is an exhibition showing the young generation of Dutch avantgarde jewelry with strong and innovative work by eleven emerging artists. It will open at Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco on March 21 till April 20, 2007. It was curated for them by Andrea Wagner (studio jeweller in Amsterdam) who further organized that the exhibition continues to a number of other galleries in the United States and Canada. Testifying to the exceptional originality and creative mentality in The Netherlands the charismatic and compelling work has an unconstrained playfulness and subtle humor. The innovative use of a wide scope of materials is the outcome of the arists’ experimental curiosity in their search for narrative materiality. These intelligently beautiful jewels project a strong visual language that is based to a large extent on the power of the emotional value of material conveying the meaning behind the work. There is an exhibition catalogue Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains with 22 color illustrations exceptionally photographed by Corriette Schoenaerts. A lecture on the Dutch creative mentality and the historical background of contemporary jewelry in that country will be given by Andrea Wagner to accompany the exhibitions.
Further showings planned:
Ornamentum Gallery, Hudson NY 6 July – 6 August 2007
Gallery Loupe, Montclair, NJ - Fall 2007
Gallery Noel Guyomarc’h, Montréal (Québec) Canada - 6 March – 13 April 2008
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, N.S., Canada September 2008