[Jewelry making - Article 00313] - [Orchid] [Event] MassArt Conference Symposium

[Joe Wood]

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    Please join us on October Saturday, October 27th when MassArt hosts
    a one-day Symposium. 

    For information go to: http://www.massart.edu/metals click on the 
link
    for PARALLAX 

    Invited artist speakers include: 

    Iris Eichenberg - Current Artist in Residence at Cranbrook Academy
    of Art, formerly the head of jewelry design at Gerrit Rietveldt
    Academy, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    http://www.iriseichenberg.nl/eichenberg.html 

    Lauren Fensterstock - Current interim Director, Institute of
    Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art. Maine State Editor, Art New
    England. http://www.laurenfensterstock.com 

    Katja Prins - Currently Artist in Residence Idar-Oberstein, Germany.
    http://www.katjaprins.com 

    Deb Todd Wheeler - LEF Foundation Fellow, Instructor Fine Arts 3D,
    Massachusetts College of Art, Metals,
    http://babel.massart.edu/~debtoddwheeler 

    Andrea Wagner - Artist/Curator: "Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains"
    http://www.andreawagner.nl/jardin.html 

    Joe Wood - Curator:" IN SITU" http://www.joewoodstudio.com

    This one-day conference event takes advantage of an opportunity to
    compare two separate bodies of work. At Massachusetts College of Art
    and Design, there will be two separate exhibitions installed in the
    Bakalar Gallery;Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains and IN SITU. 

    Both of these exhibitions stem from investigations in jewelry and
    personal object making. Since jewelry and objects for personal use
    have an essential built-in context, the divergent approaches the
    artists take in these two very different exhibitions is intriguing.
    It sheds light on the differences in the approach to context in
    personal adornment and object making as art. As explorations and
    investigations that use jewelry and personal objects as a point of
    departure, there is always an implied function or context. How these
    two groups employ context illustrates a fundamental difference in
    cultured perspective. 

    The exhibition "Golden Clogs, Dutch Mountains", organized by Andrea
    Wagner, features the work of relatively young artists working in the
    Netherlands. With a recognized legacy of bold defiance to convention,
    Dutch works often pose questions for the viewer and wearer to
    reconcile historic references with new materials and associations. 

    The artists in the exhibition "IN SITU" are a group of young artists
    working primarily in the US. These artists work from a similar point
    of departure. They too employ elements from conventional approaches
    to jewelry and personal object making but that is where the two
    groups diverge. Where one group (Dutch) embraces the open, enigmatic
    and fragmentary the other creates a full-blown narrative fiction
    around the objects. For the Americans, the object remains central to
    the experience but only as it becomes wrapped in a specific personal
    projection of the artist's intent. Interaction, experience and 
    documentation become intregal to the work.
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