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December Issue
2008
The Artists
Guild Gallery of Greenville in Greenville, SC, Celebrates One
Year Anniversary with Exhibit of Jewelry
The Artists Guild Gallery of Greenville in Greenville, SC, will present an exhibit featuring works by six jewelry artists including: Duffy Brown, Patricia Stalb, Barbara Green, Joanne Morash, Jennifer Henderson, and Laura Dahl, on view from Dec. 1 - 31, 2008.
Six jewelry artists will be showing an exciting diversity of styles and materials including: fabricated silver to mixed metals; precious stones to organic materials; vitreous enamels and lampworked beads to woven bead work. You don't want to miss these wonderful sculptural pieces that will grace your body and create a "Wow" factor everywhere you go.
Duffy Brown thinks of jewelry as small sculptures. Sterling silver, copper, bronze, and found objects are the materials which she most frequently uses. She is drawn to the colors and textures of the earth. Many of her designs are a mosaic of shells, woven copper, river rocks and other found objects. Other materials include porcelain shards and glass bead mosaic. These materials add more color to Brown's work without resorting to gems. Tile grout is often used in the mosaics to set the objects off.
Patricia Stalb has been a metalsmith and jewelry designer since 1991. She especially enjoys working with antique jeweler's tools and traditional metal fabrication techniques. She has studied cloisonné enamel formally and is self-taught in the area of intricate enamel. Stalb has also attended the Penland School of Crafts and is a member of the Southern Highland Craft Guild.
Barbara Green began making jewelry in 1994 as a way to fill her time. She uses a variety of beads made from glass, pearl, gem stones, shell, bone and wood. She incorporates cabochons of stone and glass into her work. Green looks to nature for inspiration for the colors and flow of the pieces. In the quest to make jewelry, she took up silversmithing, this, in turn, led to creating with other metals. At present, Green works with copper.
Creative by nature, Joanne Morash was introduced to silversmithing by a friend nine years ago. She fell in love with it! She ended up apprenticing [for the teacher] (in the field) for four years. During that time Morash proceeded to teach herself the art of lampworking. Now, finding ways to combine metal and glass is her main challenge. Her ideas just keep coming and are virtually endless.
Jennifer Henderson has been a metalsmith since 1991. Specializing in sterling silver, she enjoys adding semi-precious stones and gems creating unique and reasonably priced jewelry. Henderson also works with several other metals using a variety of techniques such as hollow forming, patina on copper and brass, silver and bronze casting, roller printing, marriage of metals, and anodizing.
Laura Dahl is a recent transplant from Spokane, WA. Her primary medium is non-ferrous metal, but also includes, stones, handmade felt, wood, or leather. She creates hand-fabricated metal jewelry, boxes, handbags, and other small metal objects.
Dahl is passionate about marrying metals and etching. Her award-winning work can be found in galleries in WA and SC, including the Artists Guild Gallery. In Dec. 2008, she is participating in two invitational shows at the Brevard Museum of Art and Science and the Pickens County Museum of Art and History.
Jewelry making demonstrations are scheduled throughout the month with each artist.
For further information
check our SC Commercial Gallery listings, call the gallery at
864-239-3882 or visit (www.artistsguildgalleryofgreenville.com).
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