Elise Winters on Apr 23 2010 | Filed under: Exhibitions
Elise Winters, Garden Esprit Brooch, 2010
5.5″h x 5.5″ w x 3″d
polymer, acrylic, maple, brass
This past weekend at SOFA:NY, my new Esprit Brooches were exhibited for the first time on maple stands. Brooch forms have always been my favorite. I approach them as small scale sculpture. After making these larger ruffle brooches I felt they should [...]
Elise Winters on Mar 05 2010 | Filed under: Exhibitions
Loretta Lam, Laughing Corn, 2009
Loretta Lam’s Neckpiece appeared in CraftForms 2009, the 15th International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Craft at the Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA from Dec 4, 2009 - Jan 23, 2010. The exhibition which was curated by Bruce Pepich, Executive Director and Curator of Collections at the Racine Art Museum included more [...]
Elise Winters on Mar 02 2010 | Filed under: Adams, Mobilia, Toops
Dan Adams and Cynthia Toops, Sleepless in Seattle Necklace detail, 2010
glass, polymer, silver
Dan Adams and Cynthia Toops have new work in the upcoming exhibit called Glass Quake Again 2010. The show opens on March 12th and runs thru April 24th at Mobilia Gallery in Cambridge MA.
Elise Winters on Feb 17 2010 | Filed under: Winters
Elise Winters, Denim Cascade RUFFLE Neckpiece, 2010
as seen on models during Cynthia Rowley’s Fall 2010 runway show last Friday during NY Fashion Week.
Woody Rudin on Dec 25 2009 | Filed under: Bruce W. Pepich, RAM Polymer Collection, Racine Art Museum
Bruce W. Pepich, Executive Director and Curator of Collections at the Racine Art Museum.
I’ve witnessed Philippe de Montebello trying to weave his magic on a potential major donor to his Metropolitan Museum of New York. Philippe’s pitch, smooth and seductive, had a well rehearsed air to it. Across an antique dining room table in New [...]
Elise Winters on Dec 18 2009 | Filed under: Carren, Toops
Before this tax year ends, please don’t forget to make your contribution to the RAM Polymer Collection.
Cynthia Toops, Dust If You Must, 2008
Lark Books is adding to its Masters series with a new title called Masters: Polymer Clay due out in late 2010. Currently in production, this volume will celebrate masterful artistic innovation and imagination [...]
Woody Rudin on Nov 20 2009 | Filed under: Newark Museum, Voulkos, Winters
This Pier Voulkos Neckpiece and 40 other polymer works were
recently acquired into the Newark Museum’s jewelry collection.
When you’re born with the name Ulysses Grant Dietz, you just might have come into this world with a penchant for leadership. Luckily for the polymer jewelry community, Ulysses turned his attention not to military or political affairs, but [...]
Elise Winters on Nov 13 2009 | Filed under: 2009, Dever, Ford, Forlano, SOFA, Winters
Elise Winters and Ruth Snyderman
Synderman-Works Gallery at SOFA:Chicago 2009
Visitors to SOFA:Chicago this year found polymer master works in the booths at both Snyderman-Works Gallery and Del Mano Gallery. Ruth Snyderman, owner of Snyderman-Works Gallery, was exhibiting 15 of my RUFFLE pieces along with a large group of work by Ford/Forlano. Bruce Hoffman, director of the [...]
Elise Winters on Nov 06 2009 | Filed under: 2009, Dever, SOFA, Winters
Jeffrey Lloyd Dever, Morning Refuge, 2009
Polymer clay, wire, thread, card stock
7.75”H x 12.5”W x 5.25” D
Both Jeff and I are exhibiting work at SOFA:Chicago this week. Pictured above is one of two teapots being shown by Del Mano Gallery. I asked Jeff to tell me a little about these pieces.
Elise Winters on Oct 30 2009 | Filed under: RAM Polymer Collection, Racine Art Museum, Voulkos
Pier Voulkos, Neckpiece (detail), c. 1995 (see credits below)
As a reader of this website, you’re familiar with the “Collection Project,” our effort to put polymer art on the map and into the permanent collections of major museums throughout the nation.
In order to ensure publication of the first hardcover museum catalog on the medium, and to [...]