EXPO ‘LIT – Sandra Enterline’ – Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley (CA) (USA) – 11 Oct.-15 Nov. 2014

Shibumi Gallery :   « LIT – Sandra Enterline »

opening / artist reception: Saturday, October 11th   5-8pm

LIT is based on the fascination with light when seen through hundreds of tiny perforations. Sandra’s interest is in the seduction, power, and purity of valuable materials. Growing up in Northwestern Pennsylvania; abandoned factories have long inspired her. They are like hulking cathedrals. Gritty, mysterious, immense and dark, yet they are strangely fragile and delicate at the same time. This inspired her to start working with diamond sheets and dark oxidized silver. The diamonds are captured in crude settings, and are like delicate windows that punctuate each setting and capture light. The windows allow light to pass through each diamond, irregularly shaped and flawed with inclusions, streaks of grey, black and yellow. « Ultimately, I am searching for the materials in the jewelry to be simultaneously harmonious and perplexing. »

The pieces are minimal in form and resonate in both the natural and machined worlds. There is a powerful interplay between the interior and exterior of the pieces. This is amplified by light moving through them only at certain moments as the wearer moves through space. She describes her jewelry as « based on a fascination with fragility, preciousness, and the mystery of half-visible objects glimpsed through hundreds of tiny perforations. Refined shapes alternately cage, contain, and reveal the interior. I make strong, simple, sculptural objects that are complex and layered, the interior discovered over time.« .

Sandra Enterline – Diamond Paddle Drop Earrings; oxidized sterling silver, 1.4 cts diamond slices, palladium, 10k white gold.

Sandra Enterline : box brooch – oxidised sterling silver and 22 ct gold. 2008

Sandra Enterline received a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1983, and has been working as a studio jeweler, focusing on one of a kind jewelry since that time. Her work has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally. She has work in numerous museum collections including The American Craft Museum in New York, The Oakland Museum, The Renwick Gallery part of The Smithsonian Institution and The Wustum Museum. She has also received two NEA Visual Arts Fellowships, one in 1988 and one in 1992.
Sandra currently works from her studio in San Francisco.

Sandra Enterline: Necklace (detail)

 

Shibumi Gallery 
1402 Fifth Street
Berkeley
CA . 94710 – USA
t. 510.528.7736
HOURS: Saturday 12-6pm & Sunday 12-5pm + by appointment during the week