Drifters by Steven KP
Exhibition
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29 Mar 2025
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26 Apr 2025
Published: 25.03.2025
Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h
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Necklace: Strays, 2025
Hand-carved and ebonized black walnut, sterling silver
Photo by: Rob Chron
From series: Drifters
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KP is an artist, jeweler, and educator with a practice rooted in questions of material culture, empathy, and the complexity of care.
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Steven KP
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Academically trained as a jeweler and working in a long lineage of immigrant and diasporic carpenters, KP’s carved and cast works are known for their lyrical qualities that can be read as metaphors and embodiments of lived queer experiences. By using hand tools and a jeweler’s bench, their carved and entangled gestural forms are rendered with care in response to the embedded wounds, scars, and growth marks of the material block in a consciously slow and reciprocal practice. Their material-based research and making has positioned KP as a leading voice in craft and art discussions surrounding object-agency, queer ecology, and intergenerational responses to loss and lineage.
KP received their Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Jewelry and Metalsmithing and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently residing in Providence, Rhode Island, they hold teaching positions between the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and RISD as well as an instructor for Tiffany & Co Apprenticeship Program. KP’s work and critical writing has been widely featured in publications such as Metalsmith Magazine, Ornament Magazine, The Decorative Arts Trust, Art Jewelry Forum, and German arts and culture magazine, Art Aurea. Their work is housed in numerous private and public collections nationally and internationally including the Museum of Art and Design in New York, NY and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI.
Opening reception: Saturday, March 29, 1 - 5 pm.
Academically trained as a jeweler and working in a long lineage of immigrant and diasporic carpenters, KP’s carved and cast works are known for their lyrical qualities that can be read as metaphors and embodiments of lived queer experiences. By using hand tools and a jeweler’s bench, their carved and entangled gestural forms are rendered with care in response to the embedded wounds, scars, and growth marks of the material block in a consciously slow and reciprocal practice. Their material-based research and making has positioned KP as a leading voice in craft and art discussions surrounding object-agency, queer ecology, and intergenerational responses to loss and lineage.
KP received their Master of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Jewelry and Metalsmithing and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently residing in Providence, Rhode Island, they hold teaching positions between the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and RISD as well as an instructor for Tiffany & Co Apprenticeship Program. KP’s work and critical writing has been widely featured in publications such as Metalsmith Magazine, Ornament Magazine, The Decorative Arts Trust, Art Jewelry Forum, and German arts and culture magazine, Art Aurea. Their work is housed in numerous private and public collections nationally and internationally including the Museum of Art and Design in New York, NY and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI.
Opening reception: Saturday, March 29, 1 - 5 pm.
Galerie Noel Guyomarc'h
- Mail:
- info
galerienoelguyomarch.com
- Phone:
- 514 840 9362
- Management:
- Noel Guyomarc'h
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