Underwater Marvels Propel My Art
Sherry Cordova will be stopping by the Personal FX Gallery at 643 Main Street in Half Moon Bay, CA, on Sunday Aug 23rd between 1 and 4 pm for the glass jewelry show.
Three of the five C Glass necklaces, which can be seen anytime at Personal FX Gallery, are shown here. C Glass necklaces are created with a special process I developed to combine recycled bottle glass and recycled fine silver.
Fellow art jeweler Fran Grinels and I had a wonderful evening at the Lireille Gallery on Friday August 7th. We were amazed at the turnout for our first ever artists’ reception as featured artists.
Most of the pieces seen in the case remain at Lireille Gallery. The work on the black velvet pad is my private collection of pieces I have created over the last ten years that is either a personal favorite and/or has been published in a book or calendar or received recognition.
The “Reflections” and “Swirling Schools” pieces have been enjoyable to create over this past month, and I’ll be writing a blog post soon with pictures of some of the steps involved in creating them starting from a SCUBA dive and sketches drawn at the beach.
Emerging art jewelers Fran Grinels and Sherry Cordova are very excited to be the featured artists at an artists’ reception in Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art at 3980 Piedmont Ave, Oakland, CA on Friday August 7th, 2009.
Sherry Cordova and Fran Grinels will be at Lireille from 5:30 to 8:30 pm along with finger foods, wine and people enjoying the Oakland First Friday Artwalk. Come meet the artists and talk to them about their newest work, their inspirations, and help them celebrate their first ever gallery artists’ reception. While you’re there take a look at the wide variety of art jewelers’ works at Lireille.
Lireille is located near the corner of Piedmont and Monte Vista Avenues, kitty corner from a Wells Fargo Bank. Behind the bank the city has provided a parking lot, or take a look on the nearby streets for a spot.
Sherry Cordova will be showing new work in her “Oceanic line” which was inspired by a recent SCUBA diving trip to Loreto, Baja California Sur.
Fran has created some very cool ‘mobius’ rings which she will be showing in addition to other work already at Lireille as seen below.
In addition to works for sale, both artists will be showing some pieces from their own private collections.
For more information, visit Lireille.com, SherryCordova.com, or FranGrinelsDesign.com
After forgetting my recycled bottle glass display materials, I improvised an earring display borrowing materials local to Mendocino, CA.
I had hoped that it would be a unique display in the gallery shop of the Mendocino Art Center, and luckily it is. Since this is the first time my work has been for sale in Mendocino I wanted to make sure it looks nice.
Wednesday June 24th, good friend and jewelry artist Fran Grinels and I purchased some display cases and set them up at the Pacific Art League Gallery on Ramona St. in Palo Alto, CA. Above is a picture of the cases. My jewelry case filled with my necklaces, earrings, and rings is on the left. Below is another picture of the cases, in the second photo my jewelry case is on the right.
I’ll be at the Pacific Art League Gallery Friday June 5th for the First Friday Art Walk. Ten Palo Alto galleries participate in this monthly event.
The event coincides with the opening of a a juried show “Birds and Bees, Fur, Feathers, and Fins” which will run for the month of June in the main gallery.
Today I was lucky enough to be at Lireille Gallery when a very nice couple came to pick up two of my “Kelp” Rings. Below is a picture of the rings being worn for the first time.
Two of my pieces “Coral Cookie” Necklace and “Coral Pillows with Blue Pearl” Earrings made from recycled fine silver are now in the window of the gallery near the entrance. While taking a picture of the pieces I ended up taking a partial self portrait. Gallery owner Yan Liu can also be seen in the window reflection.
The gallery is located one storefront off the corner of Monte Vista and Piedmont Ave, at 3980 Piedmont Ave, in Oakland.
Fellow art jeweler Fran Grinels and I placed new jewelry in Oakland’s Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art today, and were fortunate to catch a preview of the upcoming show ” Pioneers in Art: CSU East Bay Sculpture Department Advanced Student Exhibit “. The show opens Friday, June 5th 2009. Enjoy a preview of the show via the mid-install process photos below.
Last Saturday I placed thirteen necklaces and three pairs of earrings in the cases just inside the door of the Pacific Art League Gallery at 668 Ramona in Palo Alto, CA. The gallery is open Monday – Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. In the next few days I’ll post a list of what’s in the gallery on my main website at the gallery page. Take a peek at the Lireille pdf on the same page if you are curious about what the catalog will look like.
If you’re in Palo Alto, head to the corner of Ramona and Forest and visit the gallery.
The Pacific Art League members have a wide variety of items for sale in this historic building. The gallery is happy to have more jewelry available now. Fran Grinels also is new to the gallery and her work is beside mine in the jewelry case.
Today I met with Yan Liu, co-owner of Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art. If you stop by Lireille Gallery, you can now see seventeen of my necklaces, 30 pairs of earrings, and 20 rings. If you’d like a preview of my art work at Lireille Gallery, I created a catalog of the items in the gallery and posted it on my website on the gallery page.
One of the two new rings I created the night before is shown below. I took my cast sterling bottleneck ring design and applied texture and patina. The liver of sulfur left a very interesting purplish pink color in the grooves after the ring was cleaned in the ultrasonic. The flush set stones are 2mm and 2.5mm white topaz. (sorry for the picture quality – I should have left time for a photo session.) If you’d like a better look – it’s in the Lireille Gallery.
I also took the same Bottleneck design in sterling silver, with the same textured finish, left it unpatinated and flush set 2mm peridot stones.
I like playing with the finishes and patinas. Which reminds me, I promised some more of my patina experiment pics in an earlier post which I’ll get to soon.
Here’s the rainbow over 880 seen on my way to Lireille Gallery.
