|
 Artisans
in Silver:
Enduring
Traditions Through the Next Millennium
©
"Urn" Sculpture: Ronald
Wyancko
National
Ornamental Metal Museum
July 11-September
5, 1999
374 Metal Museum
Dr., Memphis, TN 38106
Tea services.
Chalices. Bowls. Flatware. We're familiar with their forms and uses.
Utilitarian silver has been employed for thousands of years. Artisans
in Silver: Enduring Traditions Through the Next Millennium,
encourages Artisans of the Society of American Silversmiths to break
free from the confines of functionalism to explore pure form.
Sculptural forms appear in all other art disciplines. So why should
silver, such a precious material, be considered too noble for
sculptural expression?
Over the past two
decades, design schools and professional silversmiths have been
pushing the limits of utility, being ever more daring to experiment
with individual interpretations of how we view everyday objects.
Silversmiths tend to be very practical, almost afraid to labor over
pure sculpture that may be difficult to sell because it's
different—not what one expects. So, here is your chance to view
an exhibition of work created by unshackled silversmiths, unleashed
from convention, daring to break new ground and offer what has been
seen as normal in other mediums. Here's to our being more open-minded
with the arrival of the new millennium!
Jeffrey Herman
Executive Director
Society of
American Silversmiths
Featured
Artisans
Joseph L. Brandom,
Nathan's
Rattle,
1984
sterling, bone,
7¾"h x 1½"w
Robert A. Butler,
Green Frog,
1999
sterling,
1¼"h x 2½"l x 3"w
le Corbeau,
Sculpture,
1999
sterling, wood,
24"h x 24"l x 14"w
Jack da Silva
,Until Now,
1999
sterling, 5"h
x 12"l x 7"w
Fredric DeVantier, Orb,
1999
sterling,
9½"h x 9½"l x 9½"w
Cynthia Eid,
Collection
(9 pcs.), 1999
sterling, largest:
5½"h x 2"l x 2"w, smallest: 2"h x
½"l x ½"w
Sea-ish VIII, 1996
sterling, 6"h
x 5"w x 1¼"d
John T. Fix,
Spring
Beauté,
1999
sterling, niobium,
copper, 14K gold, wood, garnet, 14½"h x 4"l x 3½"w
Woodland Fragment,
1999, sterling, copper, niobium, 22K gold, moonstone, amethyst,
2¾"h x 6"l x 6½"w
William N. Frederick,
Fire
Four,
1999
sterling,
rosewood, 5"h x 7½"l x 7½"w
Robly A. Glover,
Elemental
Object #1 (Horns),
1999
sterling, 6"h
x 5"l x 5"w x 5"d x 5"dia.
Elemental Object
#2 (Ram's Horns), 1999
sterling, 6"h
x 5"l x 5"w x 5"d x 5"dia.
Elemental Object
#3 (Vining), 1999
sterling, 7"h
x 3"l x 3"w x 3"d x 3"dia.
Louis Graveline,
Box
of Hope,
1999
sterling, golden
bronze, gold leaf, 7"h x 3"w x 3"d
Kathy Hart,
Separation,
1999
sterling, copper,
4"h x 3¾"l x ¾"w
The Burning Bush, 1999
sterling, copper,
5"h x 5"l x 2½"w
Olle Johanson,
Sea Sign #1,
1999
sterling, 6"h
x 2"w x 2"d
Sea Sign #2, 1999
sterling, 8"h
x 2"w x 2"d
Lynda LaRoche,
The
Urban Landscape Deconstructed,
1999
sterling, 14K
gold, 6½"h x 4½"l x 2½"d
Val Link,
Hi
Ho Silver,
1999
sterling, water
buffalo horn, 11"h x 9"w x 3"d
Richard Mafong,
Stars
& Stripes,
1997
sterling, 18"l
x 8"w x 1¼"d
John C. Marshall,
Migration,
1998
fine silver,
acrylic, 17"h x 36"l x 14"w
Thomas P. Muir,
Sculpture,
1989
sterling, bronze,
11½"h x 5"l x 5¼"w
Paulette Myers,
Celestial
Aria,
1999
sterling, fine
silver, 18K gold, 24K gold, nickel, graphite, 20"h x
4¾" dia.
Maternal Eternal:
Power Vessel, 1998
sterling,
titanium, iron, paint, rose petals, amethyst, 8"h x
10½" dia.
Robyn Nichols,
Eros's
Game,
1999
sterling, copper,
shagbark, hickory sapling branch, 3½"h x 47"l x 2"d
Cynthia Schlemlein,
Black
Flower,
1999
sterling, 8"h
x 6½"l x 4"w
Billie Jean Theide,
No
Roses,
1980
sterling,
stainless steel, 11"h x 3"w x 3"d
Munya Avigail Upin,
Torn 2's & 3's,
1983
sterling, fine
silver, 1¼"h x 3¾"l x 3½"w
934 7th Ave., 1983
sterling, nickel,
3h" x 6½l" x 5"w
Wisconsin
Landscape, 1983
sterling, nickel,
2½"h x 4¾"l x 2¼"w
Ronald J. Wyancko,
Le
Corbusier,
1982
sterling, soldered
mokumé, 8"h x 5"w x 2"d
Wendy
Yothers,
Mask,1999
sterling, 10"h
x 10"l x 6½"w x 4"d
Valentin Yotkov,
The
Broken Universe,
1999
sterling,
2¼"h x 3"w x 3"d
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