“Make a necklaces as long as your are tall.”
Guidelines Vol.1 posters by Victoria Marie Barquin
Guidelines Vol.1 was a group exhibition featuring following artists: Adriana De Castro, Brie Flora, Chloe Leigh, Dan Lynch, Daniel Koy, Franko Kosic-Matulic, Georgina Trevino, Kelly Jean Conroy, Kelsey Larsen McQuown, Liz Clark, Melissa Gisele, Olga Hall, Shea Mizuno, Shelby Goldsmith and Victoria Marie Barquin.
Participants are contemporary jewelers/metalsmiths who are not currently immersed in an academic setting. Each artist span the country, also ranging from emerging to established makers. As a semi-recent graduate, I looked to include no one immersed in an academic setting. When you’re out of college whether it be undergrad or a masters program, you are no longer driven by given guidelines, how do you create work? What do you create? This project was my way of providing a solution to that challenge for the jewelers as well as for myself, creating an opportunity to participate in an exhibition and further build up a body of work.
Each artist was given the same Guidelines along with instructions to create jewelry that doesn’t need to be traditionally wearable but must fall under the umbrella of adornment. The Guidelines touch upon topics that range from location, to personal responses, to our political climate. Each artist, utilizing their individual approach to contemporary jewelry making, interprets the guidelines in their own way.
The Guidelines each artist received are:
Make a necklace as long as you are tall. This first piece can be made out of a material of your choice and does not have to be wearable. Think sculpturally. The necklace must have a closure of some kind and the weight cannot exceed 30 pounds.
Go for a walk outside on a Sunday, rain or shine. Begin your walk outside your home, walk a mile, and pick up an object you see on your walk. This object can be anything found, nothing purchased. Take a picture of your object where you found it before picking it up, this photo will be displayed with your final product. Bring your found object back and create a piece of jewelry.
Make a brooch/pin that you feel represents one emotion you have felt since Tuesday, November 8, 2016.
