SHERRY CORDOVA JEWELRY

Project Tag: silver

  • Snowflake Coral Polyps Colonizing

    Snowflake Coral Polyps Colonizing

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    Sherry Cordova

    Earrings Recycled Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel Fasteners 2.2 x 1.4 x 0.4 inch Snowflake coral polyps building layers as the colony grows Click here to read about the Snowflake Coral Series design process and inspiration

  • “Appropriated Adornment” Online Juried Exhibition

    “Appropriated Adornment” Online Juried Exhibition

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    Sherry Cordova

    A pair of my earrings is part of the Society of North American Goldsmiths newest online exhibition “Appropriated Adornment”. The free to access exhibition centers around Historical Appropriation. Click here to see my earrings in the exhibit You may read more about my inspirations for the earrings, and also click around the exhibition web page…

  • Prototype Impetus Collosphaera Spinosa DMO

    Prototype Impetus Collosphaera Spinosa DMO

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    Sherry Cordova

    Art Object Electrolytic etched, hand formed Brass, nickel silver, copper 5.5 cm diameter x 1.1 cm The prototype piece to determine if breakthrough etching was a viable process for bringing the Radiolaria Series to life. Based on Ernst Haeckel’s drawing of this microscopic sea creature which sat on my workbench for years as I mulled…

  • Volcanic Collosphaera Huxleyi, Müller DMO

    Volcanic Collosphaera Huxleyi, Müller DMO

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    Sherry Cordova

    Necklace Electrolytically etched, hand formed Recycled sterling silver, stainless steel 5.3 x 5.4 x 1 cm Volcanic human induced eruptions have modified the surface of the microscopic sea organism drawn by Ernst Haeckel in 1862 at the Strait of Messina. The stainless steel fasteners act as scaffolding for the deconstructed creature, and double as a…

  • Changing Hues: Color Embraced by Metalsmiths Around the World

    Changing Hues: Color Embraced by Metalsmiths Around the World

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    Sherry Cordova

    “Eye of the Hurricane” was invited into “Changing Hues: Color Embraced by Metalsmiths Around the World.” View the online exhibition March 2, 2014: Ganoksin is pleased to announce its fourth annual International Online Jewelry Exhibition is now open for public view. The exhibition explores metal works whose primary theme is color embraced as their primary…

  • Moorea

    Moorea

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    Sherry Cordova

    Recycled fine silver, recycled glass Hand formed The photo of Moorea was published in “New Directions in Metal Clay” by CeCe Wire

  • Modern Frills

    Modern Frills

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    Sherry Cordova

    Pendant / Brooch Sterling Silver, 3.5 ct Garnet, White Topaz The silver version at the forefront (also shown below) was a Finalist in the Silver Category of the 2007 Saul Bell International Design Award Competition

  • Whale Tale

    Whale Tale

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    Sherry Cordova

    Whale TaleRecycled Sterling SilverBracelet 9.8 x 7 x 7.5 cm Fits 7.2 x 3.4 cm wrist via light tension hold