Sienna Gallery is excited to announce that The Los Angeles County Museum of Art now holds works by three of our artists. The Amazon Kitchen necklace from Gesine Hackenberg’s current solo exhibition, Flowers and Still Life from Sondra Sherman’s 2011 Found Subjects series, and two brooches from artist Bettina Speckner.
Our artists, Maisie Broadhead (below), Susie Ganch (above) and Lauren Kalman, were included among others in the August 2013 issue of Metalsmith Magazine’s exhibition in print. With an introductory essay by guest curator Susan Cohn, the Exhibition in Print considers ‘photography as strategy’. “The photograph is not about making an object clear,” Cohn arguesm, “but about making…
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Lauren Fensterstock’s new exhibition at the gallery is Cate McQuaid’s Critics’ Pick in this weeks Boston Globe. VIEW EXHIBITION
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ANYA KIVARKIS blind spot with essay by Kate Wagle JULIA MARIA KÜNNAP nubis LAUREN FENSTERSTOCK radical sentimentalism with essay by Carol Diehl VISIT BOOKSTORE
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“You have always been a strong example of an artist who leaves traces of the interaction with the material as part of the work. Why is this important to you?” asks interviewer Susan Cummins in conversation with Myra Mimlitsch-Gray on the ART JEWELRY FORUM “Sometimes the trace of making is simply the way it is. Tools leave marks.…
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In NYC? Julia Maria Künnap will be giving an artist talk and demonstration at Brooklyn Metal Works. Sunday July 21 Register here BROOKLYN METALWORKS
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Some casual and personal thoughts about these artists, this gallery and what we do and think. Warning: extensive use of the comma. Sienna At the end of June, artist Myra Mimlitsch-Gray came to the gallery to bring her new body of work and set up the exhibition that was to open on the 29th,…
DetailsA wonderful write up in HandEye about curator Emily Zilber’s The New Blue and White at Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Nice mention of our artist included in the exhibition, Gesine Hackenberg. “The works in New Blue and White show how one remarkable set of material traditions, which have had a profound international impact, can inspire new…
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The Guardian spotlights Maisie Broadhead in Why we’re watching… read interview
In a recent ArtJewelryForum article Helen writes on creativity, clarity and copying: Why do I find clarity necessary? Well, I spend a lot of time in the creative abyss, sifting chaos. It is an uncomfortable, intense, endless business, and I have dedicated my life to this process. The bridge between making work and showing work is a long…
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Melanie Bilenker’s brooch Itch has been aquired by the Newark Museum. Her work is great addition to their permanent collection especially for a museum currently exhibiting, In Her Eyes: Woman Behind and in Front of the Camera. Learn more about Melanie’s work here and watch a video about her work from the Smithsonian Museum here.
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Buy work, and wear it. Read about it. Write about it. If you are an artist, make better work than you are right now. If you are an artist, strive to go well beyond mediocrity. This should not be an option. Work with what you have now. Don’t wait until everything is lined up in…
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