Mindbogglingly quickly, the Earth has made yet another trip around the sun, and so this month marks 36 years since I began my journey as a metalsmith. Somehow 16 months have flown by since I began work on my exhibition and monograph Radiant Echoes to coincide with my 35th anniversary. Radiant Echoes evolved largely due…
I’m opening the digital doors behind the scenes to highlight the Eastern repoussé Turtle Doors, another piece from my retrospective Radiant Echoes that was hugely significant, partially because of the scale but mostly because I successfully pulled off something I’d never seen done before. It’s difficult for me to believe that it’s been eight years…
Highlights from the exhibition Radiant Echoes My retrospective Radiant Echoes showcases 100 unique works of art, which are approximately 10% of the total body of metalwork I’ve created since I began in 1989. Now that all the exhibition’s gallery rooms are open, this winter and spring I’d like to share a few of my favorite…
With repoussé, I always felt driven to take full advantage of the technique by making the relief appear intertwined and dimensional. However, like most artists practicing chasing and repoussé, I primarily first created what I now think of as “bumps on a background.” My intention is not to sound patronizing; some of the greatest repoussé…
These are the years when nuance and curiosity took priority over volume. I could level up both the dimensionality and the individuality of my work, while still filtering historical techniques through a contemporary lens. One of the best ‘coronabonuses’ of this time was my permanent pivot to teaching online. I spent countless hours developing an…
by Elyse Zorn Karlin Victoria Lansford is a multi-talented artist. She creates beautiful jewelry, makes impressive repoussé objects, and is an illustrator as well. She is accomplished in all of these areas in addition to being an important educator. That explains why her work resonates with me. My areas of specialty in jewelry history are…
Welcome to the next gallery room in the exhibition! Imagination is what propels us onward, making the human experience so much broader and more diverse than any of our other qualities could possibly achieve. Many of Einstein’s theories were based on his thought experiments. His imagining what it might be like to travel on a beam…
