Sneak Peak!

Okay, so my BFA show has finally arrived. As of a week or two ago I installed my senior collection of works in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone NC! Below is a little sneak peak of the works exhibiting currently.

come check it out! the official BFA event will be the 11th of May, though you're welcome to check it out anytime during Turchin hours of operation.

 

above is an earring, made of cast bronze and brass. the chain is meant to loop through an open gauge  and the hook at the end clips to the circular form.

 

This piece (above front view, below back view) is my celebratory hair pin for successfully completing my BFA at ASU (pics of that to come).  the work is fabricated brass, woven brass, thread, and the stone is rose-colored fluorite.

 

above materials are: leather, blue thread, and an antique button. this is just a little fun piece that i did while experimenting with leather

 

this final piece is a favorite of mine, very comfortable. the materials are rubber, masonry nails painted with latex house paint, bound in antique thread. swa swa. the closure is a small black button that fits into a small slit in the rubber. 

finally i am getting these images

this is one of the works that i produced for the Radical Jewelry Makeover when they came to Boone. The purpose of their movement is to recycle old jewelry and give it a contemporary revival. the below work is comprised  of costume jewelry mostly including these materials- plastic, wire, pot metal , stone, plastic...plastic. pot metal. i had fun!

early stages of some up coming work...

in the middle stages of development yes, but in april i will be installing a show in the Turchin Center in boone alongside my peers in the 2013 BFA show. this is a shot of some of the sketches and various works i have currently in progress. my work for this series is based on the idea of innocence lost, confronting the various elements relative to the subject including self image, the early development of biases, gender dynamics, etc. also, all works will be more 3 dimensional than i have worked before, there will even be a pedestal piece. i'll keep posting as these works develop more.

okay

 

Recent works- in Prog...

 

This is a painting I've been working on for several months. It's based on the concept of automatism, which is stream of conscienciousness drawing/painting. the work is still in progress, i'm working towards a solid resolve which i believe i will find with distinct imagery. We'll see, I'll post pics when it's finished.

detail

This is a peice again was made utilizing this process of making- automatism, though this work utilizes recognizable imagery referencing themes which have occured in my dreams over the past 6 or so months.

details.

 

Just finished this...

Childhood, playfulness, innocence- these seem to be prevailing themes in my work, i'm flowing with it...the materials here include cast bronze, brass, vinyl house paint, collage material, poly urethane. this maybe the first metalwork which i can truly feel myself in. so, that's good.