Exhibition - Redefining the San Andreas Faultline: Women Jewelers

It's been a while since I've visited
Southern California, and I admit
missing all sorts of cultural events and festivals.
But I don't miss the earthquakes!

There is an exhibition currently on view called,

Redefining the San Andreas Faultline: Women Jewelers

that runs until October 27

at the Craft in America Study Center

in Los Angeles.
 

Curated by Carolyn Benesh,

Co-editor of Ornament Magazine,

an international magazine on wearable art,

this exhibition is described as, 

Showcasing a stellar line-up of nine of California's

boldest and brightest female jewelry artists.

Taking inspiration from California's natural landscape

and environment of creative experimentalism,

their work expands the definition of wearable art

in the twenty-first century.

. . . Redefining the San Andreas Faultline

will demonstrate how California's creative edge

in art and design, dating from the

mid-twentieth century,

includes the individualistic characteristics of

women studio jewelers

who challenge themselves through their work by

experimenting and redefining the possibilities

of jewelry, its role and meaning, into the

second decade of the twenty-first century.

 

Participating artists include:
 

Harriete Estel Berman, Petra Class,
Karen Gilbert, Carol Webb, Alexandra Hart,
Marianne Hunter, Valerie Mitchell,
 Marne Ryan, and Christina Smith.

 

 

This exhibit serves as a seismograph of the
influential contributions

 made by these jewelry artists,

and just as the San Andreas Fault occasionally

redefines the landscape by being the source

of most of the serious earthquakes

occurring in California, these artists have made

 an equally profound impact on the

 landscape of the art jewelry world.

 

These artists are among those of the highest magnitude.

Each has created a seismic shift by demonstrating

levels of creativity and inspiration that go

off the Richter scale.

(Ok, enough with the earthquake metaphors.)

 

Redefining the San Andreas Faultline: Women Jewelers

 runs until October 27

at Craft in America a nonprofit organization

dedicated to the exploration, preservation

and celebration of craft and its

impact on our nation's cultural heritage.

 

See more at their website and Facebook page.