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SFA to Open 'Refined: Abundance' Jewelry Exhibition
Sylvia Bierschenk - January 9, 2008
NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - Jewelry and metalwork by artists around the world will be exhibited in "Refined: Abundance," a juried exhibition that will open at 6 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, in The Art Center @ The Old Opera House, 329 E. Main Street in downtown Nacogdoches.
Since 1998, the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art has hosted the biennial exhibition that seeks to demonstrate the wide breadth of originality in the jewelry discipline throughout the world.
Following this year's theme, juror Charon Kransen sought innovative responses to the concept of "abundance" and its formal and conceptual manifestations in the medium of jewelry.
"We received submissions from over 200 artists, a large number of which were international," said Christian Cutler, director of SFA galleries.
From the 698 individual entries Kransen chose 82 objects by 57 artists representing countries such as Israel, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain and the United States. He will award a total of $1,500 among the first, second and third place winners.
"The exhibition will be an amazing opportunity for our community to see the world of international jewelry and metalwork," Cutler said. "Through its 10 years of existence, the competition has grown substantially, becoming very impressive and very competitive."
A native of the Netherlands, Kransen is an art dealer specializing in contemporary art jewelry and the owner of Charon Kransen Arts (CKA) in New York City. Before establishing CKA in 1993, he was a professor of jewelry design and enamel at the University of Utrecht and was the head of the Jewelry and Enamel Department at the Art College Amersfoort, Holland.
Kransen has served as curator and juror of numerous national and international exhibitions, and he lectures extensively at universities and colleges worldwide.
"Refined: Abundance" will run through Friday, March 7. Regular gallery hours are 12:30 to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. Admission to the gallery and the opening is free.
The exhibition is sponsored in part by Nacogdoches Junior Forum, Texas Commission on the Arts and SFA Friends of the Visual Arts.
For more information, please call (936) 468-1131.