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     Check out more at the Metalcyberspace book store A listing of exhibitions relating to metals and art jewelry with links if available. If you are an artist, a gallery or museum and want info listed about an upcoming exhibition (or even a past jewelry exhibition which is still online) contact me and I will add it to the exhibitions section. Thanks, SES |
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Full Duplex Exhibition / Installation Stefan Heuser + Jiro Kamata at Ornamentum through July 7, 2008 On the surface, the jewelry of Stefan Heuser and Jiro Kamata stand in stark contrast to the other. Kamata’s sleek, perfectly minimal forms seem at odds with Heuser’s rough, burnt and crudely enameled surfaces. However both come alive when you delve beneath the obvious and open up to explore their underlying mysteries. During his time as the honored “city goldsmith” of Hanau, Germany, Jiro Kamata was transfixed by an old etching of the city, drawn in a completely illogical “fish-eye” view, that he found within the vast library of the “Drawing Academy”. From this he was inspired to explore the camera lens as subject, as well as the experience of seeing the world reflected through the lenses placed within his brilliantly thoughtful yet constructively minimalist jewelry. In his experimentation, Kamata discovered that by painting the back of each lens, he could achieve the deepest black and brightest white imaginable, and that light reflection and refraction would present a multitude of colors from within the glass. While the observer studies the jewelry object, a reflection on the mysteries of the surrounding environment, not to mention the memories and experiences that have passed through the glass within its’ “lifetime” become an intrinsic part of the encounter. The scorched and warped surface of a Stefan Heuser brooch, a black grey or brown rectangle pinned to the clothing, possessing an enormous visual strength, ominous and unforgiving… yet the true subversion comes into view when you turn the piece over in your hand. While leaving the front of the brooch a “blank slate”, he decorates the back using the traditional tools and techniques of the goldsmith… but he turns those against themselves as well: crude enameling oozing out from behind torn metal combined with black stones set on a burnt black backdrop, or a ruby encrusted gold brooch with the outermost layer of gold burnt to give a brown color that is unrecognizable as the valuable material it is. “He is purposefully doing all of the things we yell at the students for doing wrong”: Jamie Bennett- professor SUNY New Paltz Both artists currently live and work in Munich, Germany and are graduates of the prestigious Munich Academy of Art. Full Duplex: the transmission of data in two directions simultaneously NORTH-SOUTH Manuel Vilhena + Castello Hansen at Galeria Reverso June 5 -July 5, 2008 Enamel Experience - International Badges Exhibition Velvet da Vinci Gallery through March 30, 2008 Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco presents "Enamel Experience - International Badges Exhibition," a show featuring 24 established artists from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. This exhibition is made up of contemporary badges inspired by the collection of historic enamel badges at Hamburg's Museum der Arbeit. "Enamel Experience - International Badges Exhibition" originated at the Museum der Arbeit in Hamburg, Germany. The museum is located in The Company Carl Wild Badge Factory, which was in production from 1901 to 1989 and was forced to close due to cheaper competition overseas. The historical badge collection includes badges made for the military, various societies, commercial organizations and charities. The contemporary artists have re-interpreted these badges to create a series of new ones. Badges have a rich history through their messages and techniques. Elizabeth Turrell, the organizer of the exhibition, says, "The making of badges, medals and regalia gives artists a means of portable communication, including subversive messages, pleas for peace, and satirical images. The badge can be produced as a one off, a limited-edition or commercially produced by the hundreds or thousands." Three prestigious international artists in the exhibition have taken very different approaches to re-creating the badge. Prominent British artist Wendy Ramshaw makes both public art and jewelry. Her work is found in museums and private collections throughout the world, such as the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., the Cooper Hewitt Museum and the Art and Design Museum in New York and the Victorian and Albert Museum in London. Her badge was inspired by the intrepid polar explorer Ann Daniels who told the BBC how she saw a "rainbow around the sun". The image caught Wendy's attention and she created this sight in the form of a badge. Tamar de Vries Winter, originally from Israel, lives in the UK where she creates jewelry and hollowware. She is highly influenced by ancient cultures. Her work can be found in many prestigious collections such as the Jewish Museum in New York and the Victoria and Albert in London. She wants to communicate the message of peace through her badge. She says, "The vision expressed by this badge follows that of the prophet Isaiah - 'We shall transform their iron crosses into olive branches'. I wish to dedicate the badge to the memory of my grandfather Josef Lachmann who for all his life as a father, physician, soldier and citizen fought for his ideals." The photo on the badge is from a collection of photographs taken in Germany and Palestine in the first part of the twentieth century that she inherited. It is a reminder to her of the world they have lost. Mark Hartung is a U.S. artist. He originally studied glass at Kent State in Ohio. He has been working in enamel since 1989 and is a recipient of many Ohio Art Council Grants. Mark was inspired by badges with numbers he found in the collection of the Museum der Arbeit. He took this element and used it as a decorative motif to create his striking images. Velvet da Vinci is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 pm - 6 pm, Sunday from 12 pm - 4 pm. The Gallery is closed on Monday.  New Works: Jewellery by Alexandra Stülb & paintings by Andrea Gabbriellini at ORFEO Galerie d'Art - Luxembourg Exhibition runs until April 31, 2008  Åsa Lockner - Views of Order at PLATINA, Odengatan 68, Stockholm Exhibition runs until April 30, 2008 In 7 chapters Åsa Lockner depicts the concepts of order. The idea and inspiration for the exhibition comes partly from journeys in countries with limited freedom of speech and repression. Order is also Åsa Lockners own tool for balancing her everyday life. The exhibition "Views of Order" at Gallery Platina in Stockholm is a research on different aspects of order political, social and cultural. But the artist and designer Åsa Lockner also relates to her private life: - When I face symptoms of stress my desire for order increases. I try to compenesate my loss of control with actions as organizing work papers in files. Recently Åsa Lockner visited Laos and White Russia, two countries where the inhabitants are under strong repression from the authoritiy. She reacted with surprise on the few visible signs from the governmental control in the streets: - The lack of individual expression and subcultures was the things that struck me hardest. Downtown Minsk was unnaturally tidy and clean, simply too clean. The whole society was cleansed from diverting expression. "Views of Order" is organized in seven chapters of jewellery and sculptures in different environments, all describing the artist ideas. The first chapter, "Table Manners", handles governmental repression towards dissidents. The third chapter is the sculpture, "Being Nice", where a woman fights against visible and invisible chains. Ted Noten, Kiki van Eijk, Joost Van Bleiswijk, Shan-Shan Sheng April 18-May 10, 2008 opening reception 5-8pm on April 18, 2008 at design-e-space Venice Italy  Verdura:
The Life and Work of a Master Jeweler Through Feb. 17, 2008 at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Jewelry with the original renderings will be displayed. Ritual Objects: Sculptural Jewelry Natasha Seedorf solo show Jan. 9 - Feb.11, 2008 Gallery One Appalachian Center For Craft, Smithville, TN Exploring Boundaries: Evolutionary Metal Dec. 14 - Jan. 23, 2008 Bevier Gallery - Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, NY LIBIDO- chains, gender, feelings and love Jewellery - Jenny Edlund Foto - Morgan Norman Exhibition runs until February 2, 2008 PLATINA, Odengatan 68 in Stockholm New West Coast Design: Jewelry + Metalwork Velvet da Vinci Gallery 2015 Polk Street @ Broadway San Francisco, CA 94109 Jan. 18 to Feb. 17, 2008 Artist Reception, Friday, Jan. 18, 6-8 pm. Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco presents New West Coast Design: Jewelry + Metalwork, an exhibition showcasing 60 West Coast established and rising metal artists and jewelers creating exceptional new work. New West Coast Design is a group of exhibitions to be held in different venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area focusing on specific developments in the craft and design fields. New West Coast Design exhibitions have a rich history which started with a desire to exhibit furniture and objects by California artists. The California Design exhibitions began at the Pasadena Museum of Art in the 1950s and continued through the 1970s. Designer Craftsmen of the West, curated by Elizabeth Moses in 1957 and held at the de Young Museum, and the thirteen California Design events sponsored by the Baulines Craft Guild in San Francisco from 1988 to 2004 were also premier showcases for regional design. West Coast designers and artists continue to create unique work exhibited in Museums and private collections. The exhibition at Velvet da Vinci, New West Coast Design: Jewelry + Metalwork highlights a collection of the most exciting new designs in jewelry and metalwork currently being made on the West Coast. Helen Shirk is one of the New West Coast Design: Jewelry + Metalwork artists. Ms. Shirk is a world-renowned, Southern California metalsmith who creates large organic (plant like) vessels out of copper. The piece in the exhibition is textured and painted with colored pencil to evoke the color palette of Western Australia. The work is deeply rooted in her time spent there. She says, “I try to create the feeling of sensuousness, strangeness, and vitality that I find in the natural world.” Jeweler Maria Phillips, (Seattle) conjures up the female body through her choice of materials. Her series of brooches made from gut, gold, silver and thread look almost like quick, precise sketches. Cynthia Toops, (Seattle) an established polymer-clay jeweler, has created a new series of work out of felt. Her Twig bracelet is hand felted into an organic oval with three-dimensional texture emulating small protruding branches. James Yont, one of the younger artists in the exhibition, has created a modern style brooch. Made from red, white and orange plastic and a variety of industrial metals the appearance is that of a space ship with its modern sleek angles. Mike Holmes and Elizabeth Shypertt co-curated New West Coast Design: Jewelry + Metalwork. Velvet da Vinci is one part of a Bay Area-wide exhibition of the New West Coast Design Exhibition. In total there are five other museums and galleries: San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design New West Coast Design - Contemporary Objects Jan. 18 through April 27, 2008 San Francisco Center for the Book New West Coast Design - Books Jan. 25- April 25, 2008, reception Jan 25, 6-8pm Bucheon Gallery New West Coast Design - Fiber Jan. 4 - Feb. 9, 2008, reception Jan. 4, 2008 6pm - 8pm Museum of Craft and Folk Art “C” Change: Craft in Our Future Recent Graduates from the California College of the Arts Nov. 1, 2007 - Jan. 27, 2008 Artworks Gallery New West Coast Design - The State of the Art Quilt Jan. 10 - Feb. 28, 2008, reception Jan. 24 Since 1991, Velvet da Vinci Gallery has been a leader in showcasing new developments in contemporary art jewelry and craft-based sculpture and regularly organizes exhibitions of contemporary craft. The Gallery represents more than 75 renowned artists from across the globe and regularly holds lectures by both local and visiting artists that are free to the public. Velvet da Vinci is open Tuesday through Sat. from 12 pm - 6 pm, Sunday 12 pm - 4 pm. The Gallery is closed on Monday. Craft in America - Expanding Traditions - an eight city museum touring exhibition opening April 2007 Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas April 13 through June 24, 2007 Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon July 22 through September 23, 2007 Mingei International Museum, San Diego, California October 20, 2007 through January 27, 2008 Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas February 22 through May 4, 2008 Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan June 8 through September 14, 2008 National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma October 11, 2008 through January 18, 2009 Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California February 18 through May 24, 2009 Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts June 27, 2009 through September 27, 2009 Jewelry by Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection May 22, 2007- March 5, 2008 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA USA This exhibiton will present highlights from Daphne Farago's collection of contemporary jewelry, which was given to the MFA in 2006. The collection comprises more than 600 works of jewelry by leading American and European artists, ranging in date from about 1940 to the present, in a wide variety of media and sculptural forms. With this gift, the MFA now holds the most comprhensive collection of twentieth-century studio jewelry ever assembled. The exhibition will include a selection of about 150-200 objects, and will provide a chronological survey of studio jewelry in the 20th century. While demonstrating the breadth of the collection and the variety of artists' approaches to jewelry-making, the show will also represent key artists in depth, including Alexander Calder, Art Smith, Sam Kramer, Robert Ebendorf, William Harper, Wendy Ramshaw and Mary Lee Hu.       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, (514) 840.9362 Montréal (Québec) Canada - 6 March – 13 April 2008 Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, N.S., Canada September 2008 Listing of previous exhibitions
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