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FuseNews - Exhibitions
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Earl Pardon: Palette Maestro
April 13-August 10, 2008
Racine Art Museum
441 Main Street
Racine, WI 53403
262-638-8300
Organized by Rosanne Raab, this colorful exhibition presents a career survey of the work of internationally respected American metalsmith Earl Pardon from the 1950s through the 1990s. Pardon was a major contributor to the rise of American studio jewelry in the second half of the 20th century. This show brings together wearable pieces and hollowware to trace his career-long interests in color and design in metal. Trained formally as a painter, Pardon is best known for jewelry that incorporates rich colors in both enameled metal surfaces and colored gemstones. He is often credited for playing a significant role in the revival of the art of enameling, as well as introducing enamel as a design element in industry.
According to their traditions, all artists are welcome to donate a piece of artwork made there for their collection.
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Society of Dutch Enamellers
April, 2008 – September, 2008
Museum voor vlakglas- en emaillekunst
Marktstraat 22
5371 AD Ravenstein
Netherlands
0486-411155
In 2008 the Society of Dutch Enamellers (V.N.E.) will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a special exhibition. It will take place from April until September, 2008 in the little fortress-town of Ravenstein, Holland, where the Museum of Flatglas and Enamel Art is situated. The main emphasis of the exhibition will be from May 17 – July 1. During this summer, enamel will dominate the whole town. The theme is ‘Landscape of Desire’ and enamelists from Australia, Germany, England, France, Hungary, Japan, and Russia have been invited.
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Imperishable Beauty:
Art Nouveau Jewelry
July 23 – November 9, 2008
Museum of Fine Art, Boston
Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115-5523
617-267-9300
This exhibition includes about 120 works by the leading designers and fabricators of late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century Art Nouveau jewelry. Although many of these artists acquired their skills in traditional, high-style jewelry houses, they found inspiration in the work of the Pre-Raphaelites, the philosophy of John Ruskin (1819–1900), the paintings and poetry of the symbolists, and the arts of Japan. For motifs, they looked to the flora (orchids, lilies) and fauna (dragonflies, butterflies) of the natural world and the sensuality of the female form. This new aesthetic was, in large measure, a reaction against nineteenth century historicism, industrialization, and the “tyranny of the diamond,” and these Art Nouveau artists chose to interpret nature rather than imitate it.
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Transformed by Fire
August 13 – October 5, 2008
 Oakland Museum of California
1000 Oak
Oakland, CA
510-238-2200
The Northern California Enamel Guild (NCEG) exhibition and sale of contemporary enameling will be hosted by the Collectors Gallery at the Oakland Museum of California. A lecture on Contemporary California Enamel will be presented by Judy Stone in the museum auditorium at 1:00 pm on August 23 to be followed by the opening reception in the gallery from 2:00-4:30 pm.
For more information on the exhibition and the NCEG, please visit their website or call Anna Tai at (650) 566-8548.
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Postage Stamps and Postcards
The Exhibition
August 17 – September 6, 2008
S ponsored by Bill Helwig, the exhibition will be held as part of the W.W. Carpenter Enamel Foundation Conference at Carpenter Foundation Vitreous Enamel Center and Museum.
The exhibition is about postcards and postage stamps, redefined. The postage stamps must resemble a stamp, and postcards must resemble a postcard that could be sent through International mail, if created on paper. For entry information, click here
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