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Kiff Slemmons: Mexican Paper Jewelry

Projet Space
November 17 - December 10, 2005

Her materials, often referred to as "found," are above all ideas--ideas proposed, examined, and considered through evolving bodies of work rather than individual pieces intended as ends in themselves. Slemmons works in series, producing collections of closely related pieces that will open a dialogue rather than close an aesthetic gap for the viewer/wearer.

By making jewelry, he tries to address key historical and contemporary issues pertaining to both art in general and jewelry in particular. In some cases, doing this by examining the difference between the authentic and the synthetic and between copying and appropriation. Questions surrounding the language of materials are not new, but they are also not resolved, and as such, they remain provocative. Equally vexing are the troublesome conventions of representation and abstraction and the use of scale as a measure of value in contemporary art, a problem for jewelers that I sometimes refer to by using rulers.

Kiff Slemmons designs paper jewelry, which is fabricated by crafts people in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Curated by Kate Bonansinga

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