City Zen Cane (aka Ford/Forlano), Earrings, circa 1996 Early in their collaborations, the team of Steven Ford and David Forlano worked under the name City Zen Cane. Here are a few early examples of their work which illustrate why this …
Gwen Gibson, Fractured Traditions (Vessel Pendant), 1999 Polymer, silk screen, gold and silver acrylic paint Between 1999 and 2001, Gwen fully explored screen printing on a wide variety of formats including cuff bracelets, inro, lentil beads and other jewelry forms. …
Rebecca Mazur (aka Zimmerman), Sandbag Teapot, 1998, 9″h x 8″w x 5″d Has there lived a child in the last fifty years who hasn’t found pleasure singing and acting out the lyrics to “I’m a little teapot, short and stout/ …
An important focus of this archive has been to make connections, to illuminate significant threads of development in polymer art. We’ve heard first-hand on this subject from many authoritative voices in the medium’s history – Victoria Hughes, Stephen Ford, Kathleen …
By the mid 1990’s Michael and Ruth Anne Grove had become masters of what was then called the “step blend”. They used the technique not just to add shading within their cane but to create intricate texture and pattern as …