COUP de COEUR – JULIA MARIA KÜNNAP – ça coule …. de source ……… – EXPO « Overgrown » at Sienna Patti gallery – 15 Juin-9 Juill. 2018

JULIA MARIA KÜNNAP « Overgrown »  at Sienna Patti gallery -   JULIA MARIA KÜNNAP -  June 15 – July 9, 2018 « For someone inspired by imperfection, Julia Maria Künnap creates objects that perfectly capture a moment in time. With flawless skill and control Künnap transforms some of the earth’s hardest materials into melting pools of liquid, sweeping brushstrokes, and about-to-burst bubbles. Overgrown, shows Künnap striving for ever more precision and pushing her materials to greater physical and conceptual limits. These efforts have resulted in impossibly thin fragments and delicate drips that suspend disbelief. Working natural stones, Künnap’s current show is filled with striking blues and greens, inky black, chalky white and translucent crystal, a bold palette that complements the juxtaposition of hand carved facets and highly polished curves. Künnap’s work has always spoken to the magical reality of the natural world—the way water changes from liquid to solid and back to liquid again—and the human desire to understand and tame it. It is no coincidence therefore that finely cut gemstones and the tradition of lapidary work has been a main point of reference throughout Künnap’s work. In recent piece however, she playfully looks at other objects and materials altered by humans. Künnap carefully reshapes cacholong into a ball of crumpled paper. Though the stone is relatively unknown to even most gemstone connoisseurs, Künnap chose it for its matte texture and likeness to paper. With the labor of carving she highlights an unglamorous yet prized stone and makes permanent an ephemeral form that rarely exists beyond the trash bin. Similarly, her series of brushstroke brooches and earrings freeze a human act. By isolating the expressive curve and movement of a stroke, Künnap memorializes both the gesture and the resulting outcome. Künnap marries her mastery of lapidary with subtlety. It is this union that makes Künnap’s work so seductive and timeless »

 Julia Maria Künnap  - Bubble Gum Ring, 2018. carved amethyst & 18k white gold

Julia Maria Künnap  - « Or Better a Fine One » , 2017. (brooch), carved lapis lazuli & 18k yellow gold

Julia Maria Künnap- Why Is It Still Overgrowing?, 2018. (earrings).  nephrite & 18k yellow gold

Julia Maria Künnap - Supervolcano ring -  carved obsidian with rhodium plated silver band

  Julia Maria Künnap graduated in 2004 from the Estonian Academy of Arts, Jewellery Art Department under Professor Kadri Mälk. A 2018 recipient of the prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize, Künnap is known for her mysteriously and meticulously carved lapidary work. Her work has been included in group and solo exhibitions around the world. Julia Maria Künnap currently lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. This is her second solo exhibition at Sienna Patti.     Sienna Patti Gallery 80 Main Street Lenox Massachusetts 01240 USA [phone] 8386

EXPO ‘ SIMON COTTRELL – timbre’ – Sienna Patti, Lenox (USA) – 27 Juin-19 Juill. 2015

 SIMON COTTRELL -  timbre 

June 27 – July 19, 2015
reception June 27 4-6pm

 (Simon Cottrell Paired Uneven Double Pendant, 2015 Monel, woven nylon cord )

The specific combination of qualities within a sound that distinguishes it from other sounds of the same pitch and volume is its ‘timbre’. While Simon Cottrell‘s works are tangible and far less transient than any sound can ever be, this term which defines the inherent small differences within similarities seems more than apt to apply. The ongoing and slowly shifting use of certain preset parameters with only a singular material, monel, and an achromatic palette, has become his formal language. Working within this sameness has lead him to focus more closely on the possible variances within those systems of working, and heightens the sensitivity to relationships between tiny details within one piece or acrosspast works.

Simon Cottrell Down Bud II Brooch, 2015 Monel, Stainless steel, powdercoating, bio-phosphorescence 3 x 3 x 2 in.

“I have no need to hurry or progress in leaps and bounds. Each piece is conceived primarily for an existence in collaborating with a wearer towards their communication of self. From a wearer’s perspective, prior relationships between other earlier works of mine are insignificant. As ever my work retains a decisive avoidance of direct allusions or clearly resolved representation. This is not so much by thorough pre-­‐planning, rather by only allowing coy suggestions of subjects to repeatedly rise in a responsive and intuitive process of making, and then continuing countering those subjects. The result usually evokes something between anything and nothing.”

Simon Cottrell Double Circles, Fingers Brooch, 2013 Monel, Stainless steel 2 3/4 x 1 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.

Simon Cottrell brooch

 Simon Cottrell Three drops, Hard Blunt Brooch, 2013 Monel, Stainless steel 2 1/2 x 2 x 1 1/8 in.

 

Simon Cottrell is an Australian artist based in Canberra. In 1997 he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with Honours in Gold and Silversmithing at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). In 2005 he was awarded an RMIT University Scholarship for a Master of Arts by Research. He has been teaching since 2001 and is currently a Lecturer and Researcher at the Australian National University, and has also been invited to teaching workshops, giving seminars and lectures at institutions around the world. Since 1996 he has exhibited extensively in over 120 exhibitions, in Australia, New Zealand, Germany, USA, Japan, The Netherlands, UK, Malaysia, France, Thailand, Canada, Italy, India, Spain and China. Selected Public Collections Auteur Bijou Collection City of Cagnes-­‐sur-­‐Mer, France. Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia. National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) Melbourne, Australia. National Gallery Of Australia, Canberra, Australia.

 

 

 

 

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EXPO ‘Devils and Their Friends’ – Sienna Patti, Lenox (USA) – 9 Juin-24 Juill. 2015

Devils and Their Friends by Helen Britton

09 Jun -  24 Jul 2015 at Sienna Patti – Lenox, USA

The newest collection of rings by Helen Britton, « Devils and Their Friends », are now in exhibition at Sienna Patti. The pieces have roots in her long time fascination with popular culture and its everyday remains and are exclusive to the gallery.

Helen Britton - Ring: Dough Devil, 2015 – Gold, diamonds

« Devils and Their Friends
If I think about when this work started, then of course I quickly land in the forests of Thüringen and the first of the Devil ring series in 2007. But then that work really stared with visits to that region in 2001. Recently I unearthed a stack of drawings from my late teen and early twenties: wild pigs, black dogs, old cars and headless horsemen. Clearly the things that attracted me to the Forest were not something new.
There was always a dark side, an interest in spooky things, and the obsession with Ghost trains is now common knowledge. But they were also comical, harmless and popular things, things that made their appearances not only at fairgrounds, but also in cartoons on TV or in the jewellery that rolled out of the trinket automat at the supermarket. Popular culture and the everyday remains the baseline in much of my work.
The characters in this series inhabit an imaginary world that has its roots in the Forest [1] work, Unheimlich[2] and these early drawings. Smooth Devil, Stone Devil, Wood Devil, Dough Devil, Fire Devil, Eel, Water Sprite, Millipede, Swine and Old Tree. These characters have broken through to the surface of this deep old river of preoccupation, crept out of their dank and mossy worlds and I have captured their likeness before they slip back under the surface and head on their merry way. » - Helen Britton, 2015.

Helen Britton Ring: Fire Devil, 2015 Red gold, diamonds, paint, etching

Helen Britton Ring: Stone, Wood and Smooth Devil, 2015 Silver, diamonds

 

 

 

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EXPO ‘Lola Brooks Flights of Fancy’ – Sienna Patti, USA – 23 Mai-14 Juin 2015

Lola Brooks
Flights of Fancy

the enigmatic Lola Brooks’ latest series flights of fancy, a poetic exploration of love and loss, woven in stainless steel, embodying all of the haunting and sublime enchantment of a fairy tale

 

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Lola Brooks - sacred heart knot necklace, 2015

Lola Brooks sacred heart knot necklace, 2015 – DETAIL – 18kt gold, stainless steel, coral

Lola Brooks brooch

  Lola Brooks back of brooch

Lola Brooks bow necklace, 2015 18kt gold, stainless steel

Lola Brooks  wounded heart ring, 2015 – 18kt gold, stainless steel, coral

 

 

 

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EXPO ‘Seth Papac – Cali Condensation’ – Sienna Patti, USA – 30 Mai-21 Juin 2015

Seth Papac – Cali Condensation | May 30 – June 21, 2015

preview at Collective Design fair May 13 -17, 2015

Seth Papac – Cali Condensation – Necklace, 2015 – Brass, raised & anodized aluminum with rayon fiber print, velour

Seth Papac Necklace, 2015 Brass, raised & anodized aluminum with rayon fiber print, velour – 40 in 101.6 cm

Seth Papac  Brooch, 2015 -Brass, powder coated brass frame, velour

 

Seth Papac is a full time Lecturer in the Jewelry and Metalwork Department at San Diego State University. He received his BFA in Jewelry/Metalsmithing (2004) from the University of Washington and his MFA in Jewelry/Metalsmithing (2009) from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Seth’s work is exhibited and published in Europe as well as the United States. He is the recent recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, a Peter S. Reed Foundation grant and a Tobey Devan Lewis Fellowship. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR and the Rotasa Foundation, Mill Valley, CA.

“Life in Southern California, with it’s unreal-real sunsets, the faded colors of light-bleached buildings, and the vestiges of seventies SoCal lifestyle in all it’s cliched glory, brought my foggy memory to a saturation point, forming crystals of an experience known and unknown to me. This California “dream” condensed into symbols of deeper meaning —tacky images of palm trees and sunsets, mid-century modern architectural screens, men’s striped velour sweaters, and phallic vessels. These symbols coalesced into objects with varying physical relationships to the body —some at the scale of architecture, some at the scale of jewelry, some in between. These degrees of magnification describe levels of intimacy and highlight the similarities between how architecture and jewelry operate. Both contain more than just the body.”

Seth Papac -  new series, Cali Condensation – 2015

Seth Papac – Cali Condensation – Pendant Screen, 2015 – wall screen with 5 removable pendants; wall screen is brass, anodized aluminum, plastic; pendants are brass, anodized aluminum, plastic; brass

 

 

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EXPO ‘Amy Tavern’ – Sienna Patti – 4-30 Avril 2015

 Amy Tavern | April 4 -30, 2015 – Sienna Patti

Sienna Patti has a project and exhibition based program focusing on the work of contemporary studio artists. The artists bridge the worlds of art, craft, and contemporary design with innovative use of materials and mediums.

 

 

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My « WANT-IT » of the WEEK ……

Each monday, « my WANT IT » of the week …. and where to find it (if possible …)

today, the Lola Brooks chunky « heartknot » chained neckpiece, saw at Sienna Patti Gallery(ref lb229) ([e-mail])

Lola Brooks – heartknot – 2012 – 3.5 lbs of stainless steel chain, 2 ounces of 14k solderNecklace | Lola Brooks. ‘Heartknot’  Stainless steel chain, 14k solder

Necklace | Lola Brooks. ‘Heartknot’  Stainless steel chain, 14k solder

EXPO ‘BIBA SCHUTZ – Half-Full’ – Sienna gallery, Lenox (USA) – 21 Juin-13 Juill. 2014

June 21  -  July 13 : BIBA SCHUTZ  Half – Full
artist reception June 28 5-7 pm
artist talk July 8, 7pm at Brooklyn MetalWorks

(Puckered UpOne of a kind Necklace Rosé glass sterling silver9″x9″x1.5″)

HALF FULL is the evolution of the artist’s personal relationship with materials, process, and emotion. This new body of work is a dialogue on the challenge and seduction of glass and metal, the movement and communication between liquid and crystal. The visceral quality of glass speaks to Schutz’s intuitive process and fluidity of her language as an artist, a journey continually considering the body and wearability. Schutz’s pieces offer space for contemplation and places to hide—a dance between what’s revealed and obscured, porous and dense, light reflected and absorbed. Light itself becomes a material, saturated within the glass and reflected outward. An inward journey given form, the work connects fantasy and memory through the structure of jewelry and adornment.
Trained as a graphic designer and printmaker, Biba Schutz has been a practicing, self-taught metal smith and jeweler for more than 20 years. She is well known for combining unexpected materials with metal in her wearable art. In 2012, she began incorporating glass into her jewelry designs and was the recipient of an Artist Residency at The Corning Museum of Glass in the spring of 2014.
Schutz’s works can be found in public and private collections around the world including the Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI; Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; and Rotasa Foundation, Mill Valley, CA. She has received the Award of Excellence from the American Craft Council and the Award of Excellence in Jewelry at the Smithsonian Craft Exhibition. She currently lives and works in New York City.

Biba Schutz – One of a kind Brooch oxidized sterling silver & green blown glass3.75″x3.5″x1″

Biba Schutz - One of a kind Brooch Lamp work lavendar glass, sterling silver & steel2.75″x1.6″x1.75″

Biba Schutz – One of a kind Brooch sterling silver & black glass2 brooches-lamp work1.2″X1.25″x1.1″ & 2.3″x1.75″x.9″

Biba Schutz - One of a kind Brooch oxidized sterling silver & clear glass3.5″x2.5″x2.75″

Biba Schutz - One of a Kind Necklace oxidized sterling silver , black borosilicate glass 7.5″x7.5″x1.7″ (19.5″length) 

Biba Schutz - One of a Kind Necklace oxidized sterling silver, colored blown glass9″ x 10″ x 1.5″ (18.5″ length)

 

 

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EXPO ‘But if the Crime is Beautiful….’ – Sienna Gallery (US) – 8 Fevr.-23 Mars 2014

Lauren Kalman : But if the Crime is Beautiful….  – Sienna Gallery

Sienna Patti and Sienna Gallery are pleased to present the newest works by artist Lauren Kalman

But if the Crime is Beautiful…. consists of fabricated and found objects combined with the body to produce sculptural compositions. These sculptures are documented and exist as photographs. The objects used to make the compositions are installed among the sculpture/photographs as residue of the action. The title of the project, But if the Crime is Beautiful…, and the series in this exhibition, Composition with Ornament and Object, are derived from Adolf Loos’ 1910 lecture Ornament and Crime. With “but if the ornament is beautiful” he is quoting the naive (in his view) population’s defense of ornament as long as it is beautiful. His proposition is that ornament is regressive and primitive, that in (his) contemporary society only degenerates and criminals are decorated (this includes women). The “crime” in my work points not only to the decorated but also to deviant sexuality and female sexuality, especially 19th and early 20th century constructions, of which our current understanding of sexuality is built upon. Loos’ writings on architecture and functional art helped to define the principals of the Modern Architecture movement and eventually the Bauhaus. The influence of these movements permeates the contemporary built environment and therefore impacts our psychological and bodily relationship to space and objects.

Lauren Kalman - but if the crime is beautiful … 2013

Lauren Kalman is a visual artist whose practice is invested in installation, video, photography and performance. Through her work she investigates perspectives of beauty, body image, value, and consumer culture. Raised in the Midwest, Kalman completed her MFA in Art from the Ohio State University and earned a BFA with a focus in metals from the Massachusetts College of Art. She has taught at institutions including Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. Currently she is an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She exhibits and lectures internationally. Her work had been featured in exhibitions at venues including the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, and the deCordova Museum. Her video work has also been screened in several international film festivals. Her photographs are part many private collections as well as the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

 

 

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RAISSA BUMP selected works at Sienna Gallery (Lenox, MA, USA) – 21-25 Aout 2013

Sienna Gallery – August 22  RAISSA BUMP selected works

Raissa Bump is an artist born in the North East who is currently working in the San Francisco Bay area. She works in collaboration, joining materials and techniques of the clothing and jewelry she is making. Her inspiration often stems from the incredible history of all that is worn on the body–she is thrilled to contribute her own designs to the rich history of adornment! Raissa received her BFA with honors from Rhode Island School of Design and also studied in Florence, Italy at Alchimia School of Contemporary Jewelry with Giampaolo Babetto. Enriched by a curiosity in the parallel, yet sometimes blurry line between jewelry and apparel, Raissa’s work is fueled by a direct response to contrasting materials that when together create complementary relationships.

Raïssa Bump

« My work is an investigation of clothing patterns, weave structures, architecture and bits of nature. I allude to these explorations without suggesting a literal reference. Front could be back, top could be bottom, what is visible, what is concealed; many layers are parts to a whole. My process allows for me to add and take way, to see, feel, respond, question and remember. I get clues from the inherent nature of different materials. Using them within the same piece, employing repetition and shifting of scales to highlight these intrinsic qualities. Surfaces reflect light or absorb it.shadows that distort or accentuate. Various patterns, colors, textures and surface treatments interact; their juxtaposition is key and often surprising. It is a way of organizing thoughts and guiding ones eye throughout a piece. What is seen depends on the light, the color the clothing that is being worn, or the mood ones in; there are multiple solutions to the same problem. It is about acknowledging a moment in time. Working with materials in hand, labor, an unfolding of ideas. The act of dressing and adorning. These expressions of nonverbal communication become a record, a reflection. They connect us individually and as a culture with our past and with our future.« 

Raïssa Bump

Raïssa Bump

Raïssa Bump

 

 

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