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Hanging in Balance:Forty-Two Contemporary Necklaces

Rubin and L Galleries
January 20 - March 10, 2005

Jewelry unites the maker and the wearer in what is probably the most intimate of collaborations in contemporary art. The jewelry artist creates a wearable object that is charged with ideas; the object and the ideas bind the wearer to the maker; and the wearer carries the message to a larger audience to complete the artistic vision. In translating their ideas, into physical reality, jewelry makers perform the quintessential artistic balancing art, a feat made all the more challenging when concepts are presented in wearable form.

Materials are the crucial mediators in an object's transformation from the imagined to the actual. The artist's whose necklaces are included in Hanging in Balance capitalize on the structural as well as the aesthetic qualities of all manner of "stuff" to create their profoundly individualistic statements.

Artists Featured:

• Maru Almeida
• Jan Baum
• Iris Bodemer
• Cousens
• Monica Medallin

• Bettina Dittlmann
• Helen Ellison-Dorion
• Sandra Enterline
• Nora Fok
• Maria Hanson

•Dorothy Hogg
•Svenja John
•Maria Phillips
•Anika smolovitz
•Andrea Wippermann

 

Exhibition curated by Sam Reveles

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