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Barbara Paris Gifford’s Take on the 1st Lisbon Contemporary Jewelry Biennial

With its small size and supportive community, religious background, arts institutions, and complex relationship with the meaning of jewelry, Lisbon was the perfect setting for any biennial to take place during COVID times. The event created an uncluttered conceptual space in which to present fresh work and ideas within the contemporary jewelry field. It could have been perceived as insensitive to bring people together in such a physically menacing time. Insightfully, however, the organizers understood the importance of safely coming together to reflect on the tragedy that befell the world, how we are surviving it, and the need to re-experience our community through seeing and talking about jewelry. It was a perfect salve for the isolation and troublesome feelings we have been collectively experiencing.

Caption: Opening at the church with the biennial’s banner, copyright MSR/SCML
TODAY! TODAY! TODAY!
Ripple Effect: A 25-Year Survey
November 10, 2021, 3 p.m. EST
 
Join us for a studio visit and discussion with Blanche Tilden and Katie Scott, of Gallery Funaki, about Tilden’s traveling exhibition, Ripple Effect: A 25-Year Survey.
 
Tilden plays with the forms of industrial modernity in impeccable works assembled from purpose-made glass and metal components. Often these are long, sinuous chains that invoke the imagery of mass production. While they seem removed from human intervention, each part is lovingly crafted, and something of their emotionally remote perfection speaks of nostalgia for a mechanically ordered view of the universe.

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Caption: Blanche Tilden, Long Conveyor, 2021, photo: Marcus Scholz
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