My current work explores permeability and interconnectedness. In particular, the question of objects and their energy, within and surrounding them: does an object end at its visual endpoint, or does it project infinitely into space?
With this series of work, I am extending the physical boundary of objects to include both an inner and outer spatial dynamic. By playing with material, design, and function, I seek to change our expectations of how jewelry both looks and feels when worn. As objects reaching into space, they are connected to everything around them: each piece, from its measured, rigid structure, radiating energy, beyond its ordered plane.
Education
MFA University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1997
BS, Geology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1994
Selected Exhibitions
- .925+Ingenuity=Art Jewelry, Boston Society of Arts and Crafts;
- California Art Metal Now, The Blue Room Gallery, San Francisco;
- Ready to Wear, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin;
- The Nature of Craft, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC;
- New Metals Invitational, Giles Gallery of Art, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY;
- SOFA Chicago, Gallery YAW;
- Functional Wearable Sculptural (a 3 woman show), Vesuvius Gallery, Glenn, MI;
- “Unexpectations” Exploring the Avant-Garde, OXOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD;
- Transformation 3: Contemporary Works in Jewelry & Small Metal, Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA;
- Concerning the Human Figure, Gallery W.D.O., Charlotte, NC;
- Ending and Beginnings, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC;
- Magic and Ritual, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NY, NY, Nathan Rosen Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, FL;
- Wisconsin Metalsmiths, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
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Susie Ganch