Born: Ibiza, Spain
Lives and Works: North Carolina
Awards
2022 Grow Greensboro Residency for New Work, August 2022, Creative Greensboro
2012 Individual Artist Fellowship, New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2010 1st & 2nd Place (felt) Blue Ridge Fiber Biennial, North Arboretum, Asheville, NC
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2022 Do/Undo, solo Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton NJ
2016 Cryosphere So Blue, Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Solo Site specific installation (Elevator Space)
2014 The Quick and The Deep, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, (solo) curator Mary Birmingham (catalogue), local TV interview
Cyan Silhouettes: Thea Clark, Houston Center of Contemporary Craft, (2 person) curator Katherine Hall (artist talk)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
La Frontera, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA & CECUT Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico
2023
La Frontera, Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for Visual Arts, University of Texas El Paso, TX & Centro Cultural de las Fronteras, UACJ CiudAD Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
2021
Hypothesis, Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA curated by Susan Wrbican
2020
Site Effects, Bayerischer Kunstgewebeverein, Munich, Germany, The Art Alliance, Philadelphia,PA (cancelled due to Covid), The Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD , curators Katja Toporski and Anja Eichler
2018
La Frontera, Encounters Along the Border, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York City, NY curators Velvet da VInci and Lorena Lazard
2017
Duality of Presence, curators Kerianne Quick & Jessica Tolbert, SUPER + CNTERCOUT Gallery, Munich, Germany (catalog), The Ruben Center
at the University of Texas El Paso
2016
Viewpoints 2016, Studio Montclair at Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ, curator Mary Birmingham (essay, catalogue)
New Work from the New World, represented by Jewelers Werk Galerie in cooperation with Gallery Biro, Munich, Germany during Schmuck.
Black, White & Green, Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Gallery, Morristown, NJ, curator Katherine Murdock
Guide Posts and Live Wires, Faculty Exhibition, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
2015
The (Not) So Secret Life of Plants, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, curator Anonda Bell
2014
Thou Art Mom, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ, curator Susan Evans Grove
Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, curator
Ursula Ilse-Neuman (catalogue)
Suspended In Pink, (traveling) V & V gallery, Vienna, AUS (catalogue)
La Frontera, (traveling) Houston Center of Contemporary Craft, TX, University of Indiana (Kokomo)
(catalogues)
Chroma: Jewelry and Color, College of the Albemarle, Manteo, NC (catalogue)
2013 La Frontera, Velvet Da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Mueso Franz Mayer, Mexico City, MEX
Suspended in Pink, Gabi Green Gallery, Munich GR, University of Birmingham, Atrium Gallery, UK,
Heidi Lowe Gallery, Delaware, US
Visual Arts Fellowship Show, Long Beach Island Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies,NJ
RePresented, New Jersey Metal Arts Guild Juried Exhibition, Firehouse gallery, Orange, NJ (cat.)
2012 Rust Never Sleeps, Martha Gault Gallery, University of Slippery Rock, PA (catalogue), curator Sharon Massey
Needles and Pins, Fuller Lodge Art Center, Los Alamos, NM
2011 Green: The Color and the Cause, Textile Museum, Washington D.C. (in looped slide show)
True Colors, New Traditional Jewellery, (traveling) Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, NL
Process, New Jersey Metal Arts Guild Juried Exhibition, Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union , NJ
(catalogue)
2010 True Colors, New Traditional Jewellery, Amsterdam, NL, GR
Make Me Something Beautiful, Newark Museum, NJ Arts Annual, curators Ulysses Dietz, Nicholas
Bell (catalogue)
Blue Ridge Fiber Biennial , North Arboretum, Asheville, NC
2009 Perspectives, New Jersey Metal Arts Guild Juried Exhibition, Jersey City University (catalogue)
From Minimal To Bling: Contemporary Studio Jewelry, exhibition gallery, The Society of Arts and
Crafts, Boston, MA, curator Fabio J. Fernández
Transformations, New Jersey State Museum, NJ Arts Annual, Trenton, NJ (catalogue)
2008 Transforming the Elements, Artisan Center of Virginia, Waynesboro, curator Mark Newport
International Wearable Biennial, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (catalogue)
Find, Make, Wear, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England, web exhibition, curator artist-in-residence Dorothy Hogg
2007 Exploring Boundaries: Revolutionary Metal, Bevier Gallery , Rochester Institute of Technology, NY (cat)
Print & Web (selected)
2016 Klimt02 "Overview of Art Jewellery in USA 2010-2016"
2014 Catalogue essay," The Quick and The Deep", by Mary Birmingham
Dan Bischoff, ”Let’s Get Real”, The Sunday Star- Ledger, Art Section, June 8, 2014, p. 6
Mark Alice Durant, “Multiple Exposures: Jewelry and Photography”, Museum of Art and Design, Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Officia Libraria, p.196,
2013 Showcase 500 Art Jewelry Necklaces, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing p.173
2012 Jewelbook, International Annual 12/13, Stichting Kunstboek, Belgium p.140, 141
Push Jewelry: 30 Artists Explore the Boundaries of Jewelry, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing p.68-71
2011 Art Jewelry Today, Volume 3, Schiffer Publishing p.42-43
500 Felt Objects, Lark Books, Sterling Publishing p.123, 205
2010 Found Object Jewelry, Stackpole Books p.29
Residency
2013 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT, (artist grant)
Teaching
Sawtooth School of Visual Arts, Winston Salem, NC, Sept 2020 - present Jewelry fabrication semester classes and workshops
Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton NJ, January 2022 workshop[ instructor
Boise State University, Boise, ID, Feb. 2017 Visiting Artist, workshop instructor (Artist talk)
Peters Valley School of Craft, Layton, NJ, Nov 2017 workshop instructor, Jewelry and Felt 2d and 3d approaches (Artist talk)
Kean University, Union NJ, Visiting Artist workshop instructor (enamels) Nov. 2016
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ Jewelry fabrication, enameling and various jewelry technique workshops, 2006-2016
Newark Museum Adult Arts Workshop, 1999- 2013 ( school closed) Jewelry, various series classes and workshops
2022 Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton NJ, workshop Instructor (jewelry cold connections with mixed media “Mapping Nature”)
Other
2015 Artist Talk, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2014 Artist Talk, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX
Artist Talk, Houston Center of Contemporary Crafts