Upcoming Exhibitions
Tributaries: Jessica Calderwood
February 5, 2010 - March 28, 2010
Calderwood addresses the ideas of consumption and personal obsession with irony, humor, and color. Using a combination of traditional metalsmithing processes such as raising and die forming as well as industrial processes such as laser-jet cutting, her work merges contemporary enameled imagery with traditional forms.
Tributaries: Susan Myers
April 2, 2010 - May 23, 2010
Susan Myers' work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including the Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco and the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh. She has taught at Penland School of Crafts and Syracuse University.
Dichotomies of Place and Object: South African Studio Jewelry
April 2 - May 23, 2010
Co-curated by Lauren Kalman and Carine Terreblanche
Dichotomies of Place in Objects is comprised of jewelry artists from Stellenbosch South Africa. The artists have been selected with the assistance of Carine Terreblanche a jeweler and educator from Stellenbosch. All selected are all affiliated with Stellenbosch University; the only school in South Africa teaching conceptual approaches to jewelry making, either as faculty, students, lecturers, or alumni. They have been selected to represent a diverse cross section that reflects both highly conceptual practices, to tongue-in-cheek kitsch, to more poetic material investigations of form. Jewelers in Stellenbosch are trained with a high technical proficiency but the samples also include artists working with contemporary media such as digital video.
Selections from Sloss
April 2 - May 23, 2010
Contemporary cast work from the artists at Birmingham's historic Sloss Furnaces.
Iron: Twenty Ten
May 28 - August 29, 2010
With
an eye toward the future of a vital art form,
Iron: Twenty Ten
offers a survey of the finest contemporary blacksmithing in the United
States. Employing both traditional and innovative approaches, the
selected work demonstrates the tremendous breadth of ideas and depth of
talent found in American blacksmithing today. The work, from an
exciting mix of established and emerging artists, was selected by a
jury of prominent blacksmiths and scholars,
including Anna Fariello, Tom Joyce, Richard Quinnell and James Wallace.
Taken as a whole, the exhibition
offers both the casual viewer and the seasoned metalsmith a
comprehensive picture of the state of contemporary American blacksmithing.
(left, Lee Sauder's
Odalisque, bloom iron with steel base, 2007)
Master Metalsmith 2010: Michael Jerry
September 3 - October 23, 2010