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…
by Cynthia Eid Every piece needs to go through an ‘ugly’ stage. If that doesn’t happen, then I haven’t taken enough risk with the piece. It’s not appealing to make a piece unless I am doing something new, which means taking a chance. It would be easier and faster to simply make a variation of…
I continued my explorations of combining techniques in unexpected ways through the use of mokume gane and Eastern repoussé bound artist books of my calligraphic and collage work. My filigree increased in yet more dimension as I pushed those pesky limits of physics. I had given myself one big edge: producing and selling my Russian…
by Rauni Higson Victoria Lansford’s striking use of filigree to create complex sculptural forms evokes ethereal forces of nature, cosmic storms, and manifestations of the invisible threads holding together the universe. While I grew up knowing the Nordic tradition of filigree well and was drawn in by its details – domed shapes filled with endless,…
Books are wildly intimate things. Books can be funnels: small openings that lead into larger spaces. From the moment I open one, I sense an unfolding that draws me into a portal that expands my sense of time.
Creating books, however, has an opposite effect. Imagine starting at the open end of the funnel and having to compress all the information that narrows to the opening…
