I'm excited to share with you that I've been featured in the May issue of Phoenix Magazine. Check it out on newsstands now...I'm on page 38!
The feature includes a plug for my upcoming 3 person show at Mesa Art Center. The exhibition is called "eleMEnTAL" and includes the work of Becky McDonah, Tedd McDonah, and myself. See details below."This exhibition brings together three Arizona metalsmiths, whose aesthetics complement each other but retain their individual forms of expression. With precious and semiprecious metals and stones, these artists create reliquaries and containers, fishing lures, jewelry and other intimate art objects that beacon closer examination. Beyond the elegant surfaces, the work provides a deeper conversation on relationships, attraction, heritage, status and other implications of society. "
FREE and Open to the Public
I will have several pieces in an upcoming exhibition at Tempe Center for the Arts. The show is entitled Family Matters and "explores the multiple dimensions and meanings that surround the word family. For some family describes the 1950s ideal of the American dream that included two parents, two children and a white picket fence. For others, family can be a contemporary concept made up of extended relationships and non-traditional ideas. This exhibition will feature a wide variety of artistic styles and media. The overall tie that will bring the work together focuses on the saying, “Home is where the heart is.”
Family Matters: June 23-Aug. 25
Tempe Center for the Arts, Tempe Arizona
I would love to see you at the opening reception on June 23rd. More details to come.
Also, as part of the exhibition, the gallery will have an area of local teen work. If you know of any Tempe teens, encourage them to apply! Info can be found here.
The "Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts" exhibition at the John Michael Kohler Art Center is now open! There is also a catalog of the exhibition which I am sure will be available for purchase soon.
You can find me on pages 72 and 78. Click on the images to view larger.
HidingPlaces 1 from John Michael on Vimeo.
Because memory is a broad and inclusive topic, it is divided into four thematic components: From Memory, Holding Memory, Forget Memory, and Shared Memory. The exhibition and accompanying book will delve deeply into each of the four areas. Artists involved in other programming areas—Performing Arts, Connecting Communities, and Education—will dovetail with the four components in various ways. The profusely illustrated book will include original writings by the exhibition’s curators and prominent scholars with expertise in savant syndrome, age and community, American culture, and art history.
Artists featured in this section call on their capacity to remember to make their art. They record the world with uncanny precision. Some are endowed with so-called photographic memory, while others feel compelled to explore the depths of memory without the aid of this particular mental facility. They share an impulse to catalog objects, people, and ideas in a visual manner, effectively releasing these thoughts from the mind so they may exist as external memory banks.
Intangible memories are captured in tangible objects in this section of the project. Objects have long been recognized as containers of memory, vessels that manifest the timeless importance of commemorating life.
Personally touched by the effects of memory loss, a number of artists confront the topic of dementia. In innovative and precedent-setting ways, they seek to maintain a connection with loved ones who no longer remember. This section of the exhibition features just two artists, both of whom will create expansive, site-specific, and multifaceted installations that mirror the complexities of the mind itself.
Each of us recalls events large and small with great clarity: a first movie at the theater; the championship game won or lost; or the precise moment of a national tragedy. Whether these events are experienced with family, community, amongst cultural groups, or as an entire nation, our personal memories become interwoven with those of others, creating a variegated but converging terrain of shared memory. This section of the exhibition explores this powerful, shifting, and emotional territory.
Field Work: A Traveling Exhibition at the Harry Wood Gallery from
Highlighting the finest in contemporary crafts from across the country, Mesa Contemporary Arts' Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition has become a benchmark for innovation and quality. Representative of traditional craft mediums including ceramics, fibers, basketry, metals, wood, glass, jewelry, papermaking and book arts, this exhibition showcases 47 artworks by 37 artists, representing 18 states.
Friday, Jan 21, 2011 (6-8pm)
Free and Open to the Public!
- 6:30pm Artist Talk by Stephanie Trenchard
- Musical Entertainment by Tommy Eggleston Trio
Light Refreshments and Cash Bar- Light Refreshments and Cash Bar
Premiering Exhibitions:
32nd Annual Contemporary Crafts
A national juried exhibition of all craft media
Jan 21-Mar 6
Memory is a Strange Bell--
Stephanie Trenchard
Narratives in Sand Cast Glass
Jan 21-Mar13
Mesa Contemporary Arts at Mesa Arts Center
One East Mesa, Downtown Mesa, Arizona
480-644-6567
MesaArtsCenter.com
This summer I am participating in the Earrings Galore show again at Heidi Lowe Gallery in Rehoboth Beach Delaware. The show runs June5th-July6th. I really wish I could be there to see it but its just too far for me to go. If any of you get the chance to see it you definitely should, and let me know what you think!
My friend Julie Mikelson was kind enough to model for me, isn't she beautiful?!
This is actually the sort of soft debut of some pieces in the new production line I am working on. All the pieces below (and the one directly above) are designs I am thinking about for the new line I will be launching later this summer. Hopefully they will do well at the show!
Oh, and here is what Heidi's website has to say about the exhibition:"The second annual “Earrings Galore” group show at Heidi Lowe Gallery will showcase dozens of artists this year. From 6-9 p.m. Saturday, June 12, the gallery will host an opening reception in conjunction with Rehoboth Beach’s “Mosaic” art walk. “Last year, ‘Earrings Galore’ was one of our most successful shows,” gallery owner Lowe said. “This year I am finding a new, fun, and unexpected way to display the earrings. The type of earring someone wears can say a lot about the person. So, I am displaying a lot of different styles to appeal to as many women as possible. The display will only enhance the earrings’ ‘cool factor’.”
The show will be on display until July 6 and features artists from across the United States as well as London."
I almost forgot to mention I was involved in the DeFine Metal and Fiber exhibition over at Crafthaus. Check it out here.
Yellow Tutu Brooch, Jill Baker Gower
Human Relationship, Lieun Lee
Just wanted to let you all know that I have 3 pieces in the upcoming exhibition Reclaim, Reuse, Renew at the Atrium Gallery at Ball State University. The exhibtion will be open to the public from Tuesday, August 25 through Saturday, September 26, 2009. The opening reception will be Thursday, September 4, 2009 from 4-6 pm. Atrium Gallery Ball State University Art and Journalism Bldg, 101 1101 N. McKinley Ave. Muncie, IN 47306 765-285-5916 (Gallery Associate) Stop by and check it out if you happen to be in Muncie Indiana...and then send me some pictures!
Dean's Gone Fishin'
Moms Wrinkles
Eye Ring
Mementos (brooches)
The opening was well attended and the show was laid out beautifully (as always). I love Mesa Art Center, they have the most gorgeous space, everyone that works/volunteers there is wonderful and they always have awesome shows!
This was the piece I had in the show:
These are some of the pieces from the show that I really liked:
This one above I thought was really funny.
Tom Shields
Francesca Vitali had 3 pieces of jewelry that were really cool to see in person, check out photos of her work by clicking on her name.
Margaret Whiting 
The Sergei Isupov show Androgyny was still up, and his work is amazing in person! The textures and shading are so unbelievable!
Here are some shots of the art center...it really is a beautiful place!
They had a live band playing which was really fun.
The Fragmented Landscape public art pieces by Ned Kahn.
The Mesa Art Center Store. Be sure to stop in if you go to the show, I have jewelry for sale there!
