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Hanging in Balance: Forty-Two Contemporary Necklaces
Hanging in Balance FortyTwo Contemporary Necklaces Author:Kate Bonansinga, Ursula Ise-Neuman, Rachelle Thiewes Jewelry unites the maker and the wearer in what is probably the most intimate of collaborations in contemporary art. The jewelry artist creates a wearable object that is charged with ideas; the object and the ideas bind the wearer to the maker; and the wearer carries the message to a larger audience to complete the artistic vision. In translatin... more »g their ideas, into physical reality, jewelry makers perform the quintessential artistic balancing art, a feat made all the more challenging when concepts are presented in wearable form. Materials are the crucial mediators in an object's transformation from the imagined to the actual. The artist's whose necklaces are included in Hanging in Balance capitalize on the structural as well as the aesthetic qualities of all manner of stuff to create their profoundly individualistic statements. Artists featured: Maru Almeida, Jan Baum, Iris Bodemer, Cynthia Cousens, Bettina Dittlmann, Helen Ellison-Dorion, Sandra Enterline, Nora Fok, Maria Hanson, Dorothy Hogg, Svenja John, Maria Phillips, Anika Smulovitz and Andrea Wippermann. This publication accompanied the exhibition Hanging in Balance: Forty-two Contemporary Necklaces which was organized by the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at the University of Texas at El Paso. It features essays by exhibition curators Kate Bonansinga and Rachelle Thiewes and an additional essay on the exhibition by Ursula Ilse Neuman, curator and author of Inspired Jewelry. This full color book also features dozens of gorgeous photographs of contemporary jewelry by the fourteen artists featured in the exhibition.« less