Website Refresh

Oh yeah!  It feels good to add a bunch of new work, news and updates to the website.  I've got a few exciting exhibitions, lectures and print going on this summer and later this year.

If you haven't been to my website in a while, check it out here:

 http://www.sarahholdenmetalsmithing.com/

Siamese Connection

 

 

Vessel is a table-top shield that effeminates stee' and structuralizes nylon stockings to contradict material gender.  This piece has not been shown outside of my thesis show, but will be on exhibit beginning this Saturday, July 20th in New York at Brooklyn Metal Works.  The Siamese Connection exhibition is inspired by a water pipe with two openings that is often seen in urban life.  The exhibition was intended to bring together work that has a "collision of two elements or an unexpected branching."  I'm curious to see the exhibition and to finally see the space.  This will be the second show that I've been in there and I thought the work included in the Re-Fresh exhibition was pretty killer, so I hope this show follows suit.

Mild Steel and Nylon Stocking Jewelry by Sarah Holden

New work by me.  forged, fabricated and welded steel with knotted nylon stockings. brooches and neckpieces.  More info about my work here.

The struggles to obtain prestige and power are active in my objects.  Utilizing the formats and histories of badges, medals and trophies, my objects negotiate power through material, process and function. Rigid industrial steel is heated to red-hot and through the muscular process of blacksmithing is rendered into delicate and ornate curves.  Silky and fleshy stockings are transformed into structural knotted veins that control and maintain shape and order.  Presenting objects where material expectations are reversed yet opposing materials visually relate works to confront my conflicted relationship of expected power roles. 

Custom Band Ring Workshop

 

 

Here are some images from the Custom Band Ring Workshop at the Evanston Art Center that I just finished teaching.  Kazue, Scott and Susan all made awesome rings!  Hopefully we can do it again sometime.

Sarah Holden MFA Gallery Talk University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

many, many, thanks to the amazing kate brandt.