Posted on

Well Received

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.

The day of the Artists Reception for Sherry Cordova and Fran Grinels at Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art in Oakland, CA
The day of the Artists’ Reception for Sherry Cordova and Fran Grinels at Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art in Oakland, CA
Display case full of my work; the night of the artists reception
Display case full of my work; the night of the artists reception

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.

Pieces created by Sherry Cordova which remain in Sherry Cordovas private collection
Pieces created by Sherry Cordova which remain in Sherry Cordova’s private collection

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.

Reflections Necklace
“Reflections” Necklace
Swirling Schools Oval Earrings
“Swirling Schools” Oval Earrings
Reflections Oval Earrings by Sherry Cordova Jewelry
“Reflections” Oval Earrings by Sherry Cordova Jewelry
Posted on

Lireille Gallery of Contemporary Jewelry and Art

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.