Showcases the artist’s journey through over three decades of ground-breaking applications of historical metalsmithing techniques. With essays by Kate Bonansinga, Cynthia Eid, Rauni Higson, Elyse Zorn Karlin, Victoria Lansford, and Jane Milosch, with consulting editor Emily Zilber.
Welcome to the next gallery room in the Radiant Echoes exhibition! My post college years were when I delved into the inspirations that would continue to inform my career – from author Umberto Eco to jazz guitarist George Benson and Islamic calligraphy to the cosmos. Explore the highlights of where my evolving design sense met…
Welcome to the exhibition! Introduction Embracing Beauty One of the most important moments in the development of my creative life is decidedly not a romantic one: I was still on crutches, awkwardly hobbling inside from the mailbox to the sofa clutching the Georgia State University 1988-1989 course catalog. My barely healed, torn hamstring had rendered…
The last 7 months have been an epic adventure into my own archive for my 35th anniversary retrospective. I’ve immersed myself in a world of tasks and decisions that surround bringing the legacy of my metalwork into accessible formats. As the big reveal gets nearer, I wanted to give you a glimpse into the process…
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Before my recent and brief studio escape last month, I finished two more rings that I showed in-progress a few newsletters ago. I chose to mix the traditional cameo shape of the ring top’s elliptical dome with the wild, inward and back out motion of spiral galaxies in the shank’s structure. The granulation on the…
I recently celebrated another trip around the sun with a bit of time off. I know, shocker alert! I’m not one to leave the studio often. Now I’m back in the throes of my 35th anniversary retrospective happening this summer. Stay tuned for more! If you’ve followed my work for long, you’ll know that June…
