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Homage to Ancestors

Homage to Ancestors juried exhibition
Co-sponsored by Macchiarini Creative Design and MAG

Exhibition dates: May 4-June 16, 2012
Artist Reception May 4, 6-9pm
Macchiarini Creative Design
1544 Grant Ave
SF CA 94133 

ed lay bracelet ring

Guff Cuff by Ed Lay

THEME
As we move through our study and practice in metalsmithing, a traceable lineage becomes present.
Our work becomes informed by not only our own creative visions, the insights of our peers and the environments with which we are surrounded, but also by the discoveries, styles, tricks and trades of our mentors, the techniques and innovations of their mentors and all the experiments, struggles and movements which came before. In effort to notably visualize these lineages and to invite play within what might be discovered along the way, we imagine an exhibition of contemporary wearable metal art pieces and sculpture where artists re-imagine the work of artists who have passed, in homage and dedication to the practices which inform their own.

Jurors: Daniel Macchiarini, Emma Macchiarini Mankin, emiko oye, Chrystal Powell

All artwork will be insured while in the care of Macchiarini Creative Design.

Download the Press Release  for this exhibition 

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Shana Astrachan
Betsy Barron
Suzane Beaubrun
Sandra Bradshaw
Syndey Brown
Ani Ghajanian
Julie Jacobs
Ed Lay
Fran Grinels
Daniel Macchiarini
Emma Mankin-Morris
Carolyn Moore
emiko oye
Chrystal Powell
Jenny Reeves
Madeline Salsich

ABOUT MACCHIARINI CREATIVE DESIGNmacchiarini creative design
www.macreativedesign.com
Macchiarini studio and gallery was founded by Peter Macchiarini, a MAG Founder, whose life was dedicated to the creation of innovative metal sculpture, jewelry, drawings, and photography. Some of his work is still on display in this gallery as part of a permanent family collection and many of the designs created in this shop are still based upon his original creations. As such his work is our inspiration. We carry on in the spirit of his artistry, and his integrity, by continuing to make hand-made individually crafted work in a jewelry and art world dominated by mass production. During his lifetime, Peter Macchiarini and his wife Virginia, who was also a talented metal enamel artist and draftsperson, were a vital part of the North Beach community. They ran and organized the North Beach street fair for many years together, encouraging artists of many ilks to come together.

During the 1950′s and 60′s Peter taught his son Daniel the metalwork craft for jewelry and sculpture, as well as form and design concepts to aid in the development of Daniel’s own artistic expression. Daniel worked side by side with Peter to help with his Father’s failing health and the business side of the shop. By the time Peter died in 2001, Daniel was a working artist creating and selling his own work, and now carries on the Macchiarini Creative Design Studio. Daniel Macchiarini’s work has been enjoyed and celebrated throughout the Bay Area as an important metal work artist. Soon after college, his daughter Emma Macchiarini Mankin began to work in the shop part-time to learn the craft of metal work and jewelry design. She is also a painter and is currently in graduate school working towards completing her MFA.

 

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Lola Brooks and Andy Cooperman

Lola Brooks and Andy Cooperman

and work by Amy Tavern: This is How I Remember it

Lola Brooks and Andy Cooperman

work by Lola Brooks & Andy Cooperman

Velvet da Vinci, San FranciscoVelvet da Vinci
November 2-30, 2011
Opening reception for Lola Brooks and Andy Cooperman, Nov 12, 7-9pm
Opening reception  for Amy Tavern, Nov 4, 6-8pm
2015 Polk St, SF CA 94019
www.velvetdavinci.com

See jewelry and metalwork by New York artist, Lola Brooks, and Seattle-based artist, Andy Cooperman, in this special exhibition. Lola and Andy are both presenters in our Forging Communities Symposium. Also featured is a solo show by North Carolina metalsmith, Amy Tavern.

Lola Brooks
www.lolabrooks.com
Lola Brooks is an artist, metalsmith, clotheshorse and sometimes writer living and working in New York City. She studied fashion at Pratt Institute and received her BFA in metals from SUNY New Paltz.  She has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and SUNY New Paltz, as well as the 92nd St Y in NYC, Haystack and Penland School of Crafts.  She is represented by Sienna Gallery in Lenox, MA and has work in the collections of the Samuel Dorsky Museum, The Museum of Art and Design, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Andy Cooperman
www.andycooperman.com
Andy Cooperman has maintained a metals studio in Seattle since 1984 where he builds jewelry and small objects and works with custom and commission clients. His work has been featured in numerous books and magazines and is in private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Tacoma Art Museum.  Andy conducts workshops and seminars across the country and taught in the metals program at the University of Washington 2006 – 2008.  Andy is also one third of the Professional Development Planning Seminar program planning committee which is part of the annual SNAG conference.

Amy Tavern: This is How I Remember it
www.amytavern.com
In her first solo exhibition, Amy Tavern will recreate jewelry from her grandmother’s jewelry box, as she remembers it. Using a variety of materials to interpret and remember as many pieces as possible, she will revisit some of the pieces that shaped her personal history and relationship with jewelry. This exhibition will be the culmination of Amy Tavern’s three-year residency at Penland School of Crafts in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

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MOveMENT Exhibition

MOveMENT

California artists embracing the movements that define the Bay Area

Chris Puzio

Chris Puzio's Holy Ghost wallpiece


724 Studios, San Francisco
November 11-19, 2011
Opening Reception and 11-11-11 Celebration Nov 11, 6-10pm
Live music by Ramshackle Romeos and DJ Nicky
724 Valencia St @ 18th St, SF CA 94110

The Bay Area has been defined by the many movements that have come through it, and often sets the stage for the rest of the country to follow. California metalsmiths respond to the theme of MOveMENT in this juried exhibition. Jurors Julie Muniz (Curator of Decorative Arts, Oakland Museum), and Harriete Estel Berman (artist, creator of The Professional Guidelines).

The San Francisco Bay Area is in many ways defined by the movements that have emerged from it – Chicano/Latino rights, Beatnicks, the Summer of Love, Anti-War Activism, Gay Rights, Slow Food, Technology/Silicon Valley, and Green/Environmental movements. As the Metal Arts Guild of San Francisco celebrates its 60th anniversary year, we reflect on our history and what it means to be involved in the arts in the Bay Area today. MAG was founded by a small group of metalsmiths, active in the communist and CA labor movements in the 1940/50s, and believed it imperative to create their own artists’ union during an economically unstable period where many artists were losing work over their political affiliation. The scope of their influence was felt globally. Today the metals/jewelry community that is MAG continues to intersect and commune with many groups and initiatives prevalent in the Bay Area to have a global impact. We might meet over political protests, wild boar roasts and late night programming sessions. From students to educators to internationally exhibiting artists, our members take active roles in their communities, are critical mass cyclists, practice food sustainability, and are leaders in Green practices. Their work is influenced by and often directly speaks to these salient “movements” of the Bay Area.

Participating artists: Shana Astrachan, Bifei Cao, Luana Coonen, Christine Dhein, Nick Dong, Reed Easley, John Jensen, Barbara Knuth, Theresa Kwong, emiko oye, Christopher Puzio, Meghan Patrice Riley, Colin Selig, Nicki Sucec, Carolyn Tillie, Kathleen Wade

Want to help with this show? It’s easy to signup for a volunteer task online!

Gallery Hours: Thurs Nov 17, 1-7pm; Fri, Nov 18, 12-6pm; Sat, Nov 19, 12-4pm

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Conspicuous Exhibition

Conspicuous showConspicuous

Julia Heineccius

Julia Heineccius' Vertical Object

Nationwide artists in collaboration with Anzfer Farms
Investigating  jewelry and interactive display for the home
Sponsored by MAG and  Monday Spaces 

Monday Spaces, San Francisco
November 10-21, 2011
Opening Reception Nov 10, 6-9pm
2441 Balboa St @ 26th Ave, SF CA 94121
www.mondayspaces.com

Conspicuous, hosted by Monday Spaces in collaboration with MAG, is an intimate exhibition that speaks to jewelry and how we can put it on view in our personal settings. Conspicuous is a collaborative exhibition with Anzfer Farms who respond to the featured jewelry by creating interactive, custom displays for showcasing the work in a personal setting.

This exhibition was a national call juried by Sienna Patti (Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA) and local design team Joe Ferriso and Jonathan Anzalone of Anzfer Farms. Conspicuous is a collaborative exhibition with Anzfer Farms who will respond to the featured jewelry by creating interactive, custom displays for showcasing the work in a personal setting. With an interest in exploring these objects as a visual experience, and the role played when they are taken out of a functional context.

Speaking about the jurying process with Sienna Patti and John Anzalone, co-juror Joe Ferriso stated, “Jon and I went through all the applicants looking for works that we found visually enticing to build around (without knowing who they were by). Many of the works we reviewed were of the highest quality technically and conceptually however our main concern was: can we provide or build a context that can heighten the experience of this piece when it is not on the body? Many strong works did not want to be re-contextualized, some were already fully considered, others did not appeal to our working aesthetic for the show.

From the beginning we envisioned a small body of work to fill the 150 sq. ft. gallery space. Although jewelry is often small we want it to appear large in the minds eye by giving it room to breathe. We are excited about the pieces we chose and look forward to considering their display.”

Participating Artists: Rebecca Deans, Julia Heineccius, Hannah Keefe, Meghan Patrice Riley, Cynthia Rohrer, Christine Shin, and Rebecca Schiffman.

Gallery Hours:  Nov 11, 13, 19, 20: 11am-5pm; Nov 14, 21: 11am-7pm
Also open by appointment: email mondayspaces@gmail.com or call 415-407-2154

 Want to spend more time with the jewelry? We need volunteer gallery sitters – it’s easy to signup online!

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Monday Spaces is an interdisciplinary event space and the showroom of Anzfer Farms and (MAG member) Raissa Bump Jewelry & Knitwear. Located in San Francisco’s Richmond District.  www.mondayspaces.com

Anzfer Farms is a workshop and showroom located in the Outer Richmond District of San Francisco. Started by Jonathan Anzalone and Joseph Ferriso in 2009 as a place to create unique objects and installations. Their backgrounds in the arts encompass a diversity of practices, which influence their furniture and object design. Working primarily with reclaimed wood, Anzfer Farms seeks to create strong and elegant pieces exploring timeless ideas of color and form. www.anzferfarms.com

 

Reception food generously donated by Pacific Gourmetpacific Gourmet

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Remembering MAG Exhibition

Remembering MAG

Margaret de Patta

Margaret de Patta brooch. MAG's 1st President. Photo by Eric Smith

Featuring work by MAG’s Founders and Leaders,
and selections from MAG’s Permanent Collection

Lireille Gallery, Oakland
October 20 – November 13, 2011
Opening Reception Oct 20, 5:30-8:30pm
Live music by Brandon Mei
3980 Piedmont, Oakland CA 94611
www.lireille.com
lireille LOGO

 

Remembering MAG is an invitational exhibition in celebration of the guild’s 60th anniversary and coincides with MAG’s November 12th symposium, Forging Communities, at the Oakland Museum. Selections from the MAG Permanent Collection will be shown alongside work from founding members Tex Gieling, merry renk, and Florence Resnikoff. The exhibition will also showcase past MAG Presidents work from the era they were president as well as a piece that represents their current aesthetic. Historical documents and photos tracing MAG’s early years will be part of the exhibit.

“MAG was established in 1951 to promote the metal arts and protect the economic interests of its members.  Up until that time, there was no group or union in the United States that specifically addressed the unique needs of studio jewelers.  

MAG’s founding members believed their collective association would create a network of strength and advantage by providing artistic, commercial, and education support to the membership.  In doing so, the Guild had a large impact on the American studio jewelry movement as members taught at leading art institutions, participated in national and international exhibitions, and had their work acquired by museums and galleries.  Sixty years later, the legacy of MAG’s founding members still endures.” -- Jenna Shaifer, art historian, on Remembering MAG

Artworks by Founders: Margaret de Patta (president), Tex Gieling, merry renk (president), Florence Resnikoff (president), Peter & Virginia Macchiarini, Harry Dixon, Byron Wilson.

Other participating Past Presidents: Alison Antelman, Adam Clark, Aimee Golant, Julia Turner, Tina Rath, Marlene Seckendorf, Eileen Gerstein, Deb Lozier, Helene S French, Jim Binnion, Jo-Ann Maggiora Donivan, Helen Kirshner, Ken Cook. Also Daniel Macchiarini and Emma Macchiarini Morris.

Gallery hours:
Sun 12- 5  Mon 12 – 6
Tue – Sat  10:30 – 6
Phone : 510- 547- 3455

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