Calculated Deconstruction

Artist list

Stephanie Farmer, Elisabeth Gerald, Violet Ita, Emma Jackson, Aditi Lakhtakia, Daniel Margaris, Michelle Yun

Through the creation of jewelry, functional objects, and sculpture, students in the jewelry and metalsmithing program give form to their artistic vision.
The Jewelry and Metalsmithing program combines direct practice with conceptual problem solving. Students explore the methods and motives behind both traditional and contemporary metal work, learning how objects are informed by their historical contexts.


As a Korean-American, my artwork embraces the essence of traditional Korean art and repetitive geometric sequences. Michelle Yun uses digital sketching on Rhino, investigating different ways to put together a pattern, using paper models first, then metal, utilizing hand-forging, fabrication, piercing, and 3D printing.

Aditi Lakhtakia’s jewelry is India inspired in my own perspective intricate designs are hand fabricated, hand hammered, pierced and hand woven, often embellished with semi-precious stones.

The forms used in jewelry by Violet Ita are a resurrection of the past, from Renaissance to Art Nouveau to Art and Crafts, acanthus leaves, Baroque dolphins, griffins, and other flora and fauna. Her work uses sterling silver, fine silver, lost wax casting, hand woven Roman Chains with fused fine silver links, stretched and woven.

Stephanie Farmer casts forms that are either meant to be worn as ear weights or exist as sculpture that speaks to body image and identity informed by body modification. This form study allows me to exhibit my affinity for body modification in tandem with my interest in visually pleasing curves and curious objects.

Elisabeth Gerald’s, Imaginings Elevated, rings, sterling silver, rosewood, lost wax castings, epitomize her philosophy, Maker of objects and keeper of fragile things. By revisiting familiar objects through imagined forms, I hope to unravel the complexity of the seemingly simple.

The Jump Rope by Daniel Margaris, of fine silver, cherry wood and hand woven Roman chain is an example of The recreation of Commonplace Functional Objects through silversmithing as an act of commemorating process and re-evaluating both the object and processes’ meaning and significance in our life.’

Emma Jackson’s, Attention No. 2, Kinetic ring, of cast sterling silver, 20k gold embodies Jackson’s explorations, showing how the tactility of jewelry can soothe the relationship between the mind and body, creating works with weight and movement. In my ‘Attention’ series, the ring wearer engages with the kinetic movement of the work immediately.’

Activities

View the art & Meet the artists
Saturday, 15th of September, 3 pm - 5 pm.
RSVP  mobiliagallery@gmail.com