Lola Brooks and Andy Cooperman
and work by Amy Tavern: This is How I Remember it
work by Lola Brooks & Andy Cooperman
Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco
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.
