Rachel Carren on Mar 16 2012 | Filed under: Exhibitons and Shows
Ford/Forlano, Full Pillow Necklace #11, Side A
2009, polymer, sterling silver 15 x 13 x 3/4″
Ford/Forlano’s Full Pillow Necklace # 11 (2009) has been in big demand. After being on loan to the Racine Art Museum for the Terra Nova exhibition, it just landed a permanent home at the Newark Museum, in Newark, New [...]
Rachel Carren on Mar 05 2012 | Filed under: Exhibitons and Shows
Tory Hughes, Armillary,1992
polymer, steel, glass, brass, silver, mustard seeds
13″h x 15″w x 1/5″ d
There are few better ways to frame a face than with a distinctive necklace. Beyond being decorative, the necklace itself often provides clues about power, status, or some symbolic meaning relevant to the wearer. The Museum of Art and Design (MAD) in [...]
Rachel Carren on Jan 20 2012 | Filed under: Exhibitons and Shows
Nancy Banks, Necklace, 2006, polymer, wire
The Mingei International Museum of Art show, “New Jewelry in a New Medium”, includes the work of 64 artists. This exhibition evolved out of work acquired by the Mingei from Elise Winters’s Polymer Collection Project and the absorption of the Bead Museum formerly of Glendale, Arizona. Many of the less [...]
Rachel Carren on Dec 17 2011 | Filed under: Exhibitons and Shows
Pier Voulkos, Bracelet, 1995, polymer
1 3/4″ x 3″, Gift of the Bead Museum, Glendale, Arizona
Photo by Tim Siegert
“New Jewelry in a New Medium”, an exhibition of polymer art opens today on the Balboa Campus of the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, California. The show focuses on individual beads and beaded adornments such as necklaces [...]
Rachel Carren on Nov 28 2011 | Filed under: Exhibitons and Shows
Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Serendipity, 2011
19”w x 13”h x 11”d
polymer, steel wire (reclaimed coat hangers)
plastic coated copper wire
Once again the Wayne Art Center’s annual Craft Forms exhibition will include a stunning work of polymer art. Jeffrey Lloyd Dever’s Serendipity is not only included in the show but featured on the cover of the invitation to the [...]
Elise Winters on Oct 28 2011 | Filed under: Conferences, Exhibitons and Shows
The polymer art internet world has been abuzz since last weekend’s events at Racine Art Museum. The blogs are filled with fabulous “eye-candy” from the Terra Nova exhibition, of the attendees and the gorgeous setting. For me, one of the truly historic aspects of the weekend was the breadth and depth of discussions at the [...]
Elise Winters on Oct 21 2011 | Filed under: Exhibitons and Shows, Publications
Tonight is the debut of the permanent polymer collection at the Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI. We’re in Racine celebrating the opening of the exhibition, Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads, which continues through February 2012. If you’re left at home, you can catch up on some reading. At the top of our reading [...]
Rachel Carren on Sep 29 2011 | Filed under: Artist's Commentary, Exhibitons and Shows
Dan Cormier, Looking Back To A Less Complicated Tomorrow, 2002, Astronaut 4.5″ x 1.5″ x 1.5″, Flying Saucer overall 18″H x 15″W
What moves you? For the Brookfield Craft Center show in 2002, “Moves in Polymer Clay,” (Brookfield, Connecticut) curator Elise Winters invited artists to create something in response to the word, “move.” Dan Cormier’s translation [...]
Rachel Carren on Sep 17 2011 | Filed under: Aesthetic Comments, Exhibitons and Shows
photo: Maxwell Malinow
The range of Wendy Malinow’s imagination careens between the macabre and the fanciful. In her “Woodland Crown”, now on exhibit in the Mobilia show, “Objects of Status, Power and Adornment”, she has created a piece that explores all three of these concepts as well as suggesting other historic traditions.
Elise Winters on Aug 20 2011 | Filed under: Exhibitons and Shows
Featuring over 200 objects made of polymer, including adornment, vessels, and furniture, Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads reflects a short but sweet period in the history of creative endeavors.