EXPO ‘Sandra Enterline: Pretty Crude’ – Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco (USA) – 14 Sept.-16 Oct. 2011

Sandra Enterline at  Velvet da Vinci Gallery

 

Sandra Enterline‘s work has been a part of Velvet da Vinci for many years. It is easily recognizable, perforated by mind-boggling numbers of meticulously drilled holes in the surface of otherwise clean, minimal pieces. Each piece creates complex shadows and silhouettes, working with and never against the light that pierces through it. In this new collection of work she goes beyond these windows of perforations to create space and capture light with diamonds. Using diamond slices, she suspends them in crude, industrial settings to allow the light to pass through each piece. Light and space are as much a material in this work as the gold, oxidized silver, and diamonds will be.

 
Sandra Enterline- Diamond Slice Brooch (front)

 

Sandra Enterline- Diamond Slice Brooch (back)

Sandra Enterline- Diamond Slice Necklace

Sandra Enterline- Diamond Slice Necklace (detail)

 

 

 

Sandra Enterline statement:

« I have created a series of pieces that is about preciousness. The materials that I have chosen to incorporate into the work are precious: diamonds, petroleum and panned gold. Each substance is appealing in its own way. The diamond slices are organic in shape and flawed with inclusions and streaks of grey, black and yellow. The petroleum is dark amber, gritty and rich in color and consistency. The gold flakes are delicate — floating in liquid like particles in a snow globe. These materials are from and embody the earth. They all share a precious existence. The panned gold and the petroleum harken back to a simpler time. Explorers would spend their time in rivers in hopes of capturing the tiny flecks of treasure in their metal pans. I siphoned the petroleum directly from Drake Well in Titusville, Pennsylvania, a few miles from where I was born. Discovered in 1859, it is the first oil well in North America. This oil is sentimental to me, as well as a curiously beautiful substance. At the time oil was discovered at Drake Well, there was an optimistic sentiment in the world. However, today, oil, diamonds and gold are synonymous with war, destruction of the natural environment, wealth, power, and fear.
I have chosen labware/ampules to house some of the materials, specifically the oil and the gold. This is a reference to science. I want them to look like specimens that a researcher might analyze and ponder the specifics of quality and purity of the substance contained wthin. I am also revisiting my souvenir project from a decade ago. »

Ultimately, I am searching for the materials in the jewelry to be harmonious and perplexing at the same time. They fit for right now, and they fit a distant past. I wish for them to be both simple and complex. The story is to be put together by the wearer. »

Velvet da Vinci Gallery
2015 Polk Street
San Francisco CA 94109
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COUP de COEUR : Lydia FEAST

 Lydia FEAST
 Working directly from her own photographic explorations and intuitive visual compositions, Lydia has explored the concept of contrasting elements. Working with materials including silver and enamel, Lydia has focused on experiments with surface pattern. She has produced a collection of wearable and non-wearable pieces, challenging in their composition, that stimulate an emotional interaction with the viewer and wearer. Echoing references to time and nature whilst combining a modern clean aesthetic, this collection brings together contrasting elements illustrating a harmony between chaos and calm, new and old and silence and noise, inspired by her research into chaos theory:
‘the underlying order in some of nature’s most random processes‘
The techniques used in the collection are potential chaotic but the results are inherently calm. Each piece is unique as a result of the carefully controlled but ultimately random outcome capturing chaos and calm and moments in between.
« I see these pieces as small scale installations presented in a gallery context with some pieces possessing the capacity to be worn« 

Education:
September 2006 to June 2009:
First Class Honours Degree, BA Jewellery and Silversmithing School Of Jewellery, Birmingham City University. England
http://www.schoolofjewellery2009.blogspot.com/   (from BIAD)

Lydia Feast - brooch

Lydia Feast ‘Chaos and Calm’ brooch in white metal, enamel and steel

Lydia Feast- ‘Chaos’ series – Vitreous enamel and white metal brooch

Lydia Feast- ‘Moments In Between’ Enamel Brooch white metal enamel with stencil detail (front & back)

Lydia Feast- ‘State of Utter Confusion’ brooch – « Chaos & Calm » serie - oxidised white metal (front & back)

Lydia Feast-  brooch

Lydia Feast-  brooch (new work)

Lydia Feast-  brooch (new work)

Lydia Feast-  brooch (new work)