Caroline Gore

Caroline Gore, Kalamazoo Michigan, USA.

Education:
2009 | Opere Jewellery School, Ravenstein, The Netherlands | 2001 | MFA, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina | 1998 | BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States.

Professional Positions:
Present – 2014 | Associate Professor / Metals Coordinator, The University of the Arts, Craft + Material Studies Department, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | 2014 – 2010 | Associate Professor of Art – Metals / Jewelry Area Coordinator, Western Michigan University, Frostic School of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan | 2010 -2004 | Assistant Professor of Art – Metals / Jewelry Area Coordinator, Western Michigan University, Frostic School of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Public Collections: 
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
Museum of Fine Arts – Houston, Texas
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin 
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

Solo Exhibitions (selection): 
2017 dual/duel, Reinstein|Ross Gallery, New York City, New York |
2016 | Caroline Gore, James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
2014 | the jewelry within a …mercurial silence…, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California | …mercurial silence…, Permanent Collections Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan | …resonance…, Epic Center, Greater Kalamazoo Arts Council, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2011 SOFA Chicago 2011- featured artist, represented by Ornamentum Gallery, Chicago Illinois |
2010 | site: interventions, observations & simulations, Mezzanine Gallery, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas (in conjunction with the 2010 Society of North American Goldsmiths conference Going to Extremes) |
2009 | Simulations, Permanent Collections Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan | Caroline Gore, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2016 | Earrings 3, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, California | 2015 | Presenter Exhibition, Yuma Art Center, Yuma, Arizona | 2014 | Light of the Moon, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatinberg, Tennessee | Siamese Connection, Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, New York (Jurors Choice Award 1st) | 50/50 Equal Parts: An Exhibition Celebrating a small view into the big window of Contemporary Jewelry, Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina | 2013 | Shift: Contemporary Makers That Define, Expand and Contradict The Field of Art Jewelry, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana | Au Courant: A Contemporary Earring Exhibition, J. Cotter Gallery, Beaver Creek & Vail, Colorado | 2012 | Badges & Buttons – Waistcoats & Vests, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California | Covet, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts | Design Miami/Basel, The Global Forum for Design, Basel, Switzerland, represented by Ornamentum Gallery | Naturel|Artificiel Curator Luzia Vogt, Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h Bijoux et Objets Contemporains, Montréal Québec, Canada | Covet (preview), SOFA New York 2012, New York, New York, represented by Sienna Gallery | SOFA New York 2012, New York, New York, represented by Ornamentum Gallery | Town & Country: Jewelry Artists Respond to the Synthetic and Natural World, in conjunction with the 2012 SCADstyle, Savannah College of Art and Design Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah, Georgia | 2011 | Design Miami/Basel, The Global Forum for Design, Miami, Florida, represented by Ornamentum Gallery | Signs of Life 2011, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington | Wearable Ceramics: Jewelry by International Artists, Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, Michigan | 2009 | SOFA Chicago 2009, Chicago, Illinois, The Stimulus Project 2009, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts | Re/Thinking Design for Consumption, The Scarab Club, Detroit, Michigan | The Stimulus Project 2009, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts | RE:ACTION(S), Craft Alliance, Saint Louis, Missouri | Equilibrium: Body as Site, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts, The University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas | 2008 | Annual Earring Exhibition, Ornamentum Gallery, Hudson, New York | Surfaces, Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, New York | Like: an Experiment in Interpretation, The Suter, Nelson, New Zealand | 2007 | Transparent, The Granary, Fiskars, Finland

Selected Lectures & Workshops Presented:
2017 | “The Snake Paused”, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina | 2015 | The Mercurial Silence of Grief in Jewelry and Objects, Yuma Art Symposium, Yuma, Arizona | 2014 | Chewing Gum to Googly Eyes: Materiality in Contemporary Jewelry: panel with Kerianne Quick, Edgar Mosa, Caroline Gore, 2014 SNAG conference – From Grains to Gold, Minneapolis, Minnesota | …mercurial silence…, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan | 2012 | “…departures, arrivals and the subsequent ambiguous narrative…”, The University of Texas, El Paso, Texas | “The Intentionally Ambiguous Narrative”, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina | 2011 | “Finding Signs of Life”, Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington | “Shifting Tradition: A Journey Through Lineage”, Keynote lecture for East Carolina University Symposium 2011, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina | 2010 | “Research methods and work”, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts – Houston, Houston, Texas | Floor Talk, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas | 2008 | “Emerging Artists 2008” Sponsored by the Society of North American Goldsmiths, SALON SOFA Lecture Series, International Expositions of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art, Chicago, Illinois | “Visual Articulations – Bemis Center Artists-in-Residence John Henry Blatter, Caroline Gore & Nathalie Miebach”, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska | 2007 | “Blurring Across Fields – Siting the Maker” New Craft — Future Voices International Conference, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland | “Endings and Beginnings” Artist Talk Kuparipaja (Copper Smithy), Fiskars Cooperative, Fiskars, Finland | 2006 | “Markings – Recent Work” Artists Talk University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia | “Blurring the Field – Siting the Maker” Carry the Can – Association of Contemporary Jewellery Conference London Metropolitan University, London, England |“Spaces, Sculpture & the Body” Panel member with Mark Edgoose, Melbourne, Australia, and Tracey Clement, Sydney, Australia Paper presented entitled “the blurring between sculpture and adornment – spaces:bodies” Jewellers & Metalsmiths group of Australia Biennial Conference 2006 University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, Australia 

Artist Residencies:
2016 | Haystack Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine |
2015-16 | The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
2008 | Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska, USA |
2007 | The Artisans, Designers, and Artists Cooperative of Fiskars, Fiskars, Finland | 2006 | Studio Art Centers International, Florence, Italy

Teaching:
2004 - 2014 Associate Professor of Art - Metals / Jewelry Area Coordinator, Western Michigan University, Frostic School of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan
2010 -2004 Assistant Professor of Art - Metals / Jewelry Area Coordinator, Western Michigan University, Frostic School of Art, Kalamazoo, Michigan

2017 Wear Oh Wear, Rachelle Thiewes, Metalsmith Magazine, Volume 37 No: 2,
2017 2016 Exhibition in Print 2016, Shifting Sites, Metalsmith Magazine, Volume 36 No: 34
2016 Sum & Substance, The Jewelry Issue, American Craft Magazine, Volume 75 No: 5
2015, 2014 Robert W. Ebendorf, The Work in Depth, Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
2012 Jewelbook: International Annual of Jewel Art 2012-13, Sticthing Kunstboak, Belgium
2012 Showcase: 500 Beaded Jewelry: Photographs of Beautiful Contemporary Beadwork, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
2011 Signs of Life, Robin Updike, Ornament – the Art and Craft of Personal Adornment, Volume 35, No. 1
2011 Signs of Life 2011, Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery
2011 21st Century Jewelry – The Best of the 500 Series, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
2010 500 Gemstone Jewels: A Sparkling Collection of Dazzling Designs, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
2009 Metalsmith, Saturated: Metal and Color, Juried Exhibition in Print, Volume 29 No: 4
2008 Metalsmith, Equilibrium: Body as Site, Curated Exhibition in Print, Volume 28 No: 4
2008 500 Pendants and Lockets: Contemporary Interpretations of Classic Adornments, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
2008 Like, An Experiment in Interpretation, Stella Chrysostomou – Icebox 2008, Printhouse, Nelson, New Zealand, 2008.
2007 Caroline Gore, “Blurring Across Fields – Siting the Maker”
2007 New Craft - Future Voices International Conference Proceedings; Edited by, Georgina Follett, and Louise Valentine; Past, Present, and Future Craft Practice Research, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, 2007
 

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Reinstein Ross Gallery
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