Finally! Here are some images of the Heat Exchange works installed. All pictures were taken at the Shemer Museum and Arts Center in Scottsdale, AZ in the USA. Enjoy!
Melissa is a jewellery artist from Australia living in Seattle in the US. Her works can be found in the National Gallery of Australia as well as the Cheongju City Collection in South Korea. Her enamel works typically display subtle enamel incursions amidst precise laser cut stainless steel layers.
The Heat Exchange exhibition was staged as a part of the SNAG conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. During the conference, local artist and podcaster Jay Whaley broadcast his MetalSmith BenchTalk radio interview program from a spot inside the conference venue. Amongst a stellar lineup of guests somehow I got the nod to have a chat with Jay and Greg, so starting about half an hour from the end you can have a listen to me speaking about the Heat Exchange show, amongst other things. (Ignore the listing, I somehow ended up just after Loring.)
Melissa is a jewellery artist from Australia living in Seattle in the US. Her works can be found in the National Gallery of Australia as well as the Cheongju City Collection in South Korea. Her enamel works typically display subtle enamel incursions amidst precise laser cut stainless steel layers.
Since my work is on route to the gallery, I thought I would add something to the blog. As I mentioned in my last post I have been experimenting with faceted 3D surfaces and projecting them flat to create sudo optical illusions. I then use the projection as a tool path for the laser and etch them onto enamel. I have included a multi-step image of the wire-framed surface from the RHINO. I start with the distorted 3D surface and then slowly rotate my view until I get the desired top, aerial view. I am also including an image of the final piece after the enameled portion is set in a sterling frame. The “flap” or enameled surface moves with the body and pivots on the top of the frame. Both sides of the flap have been etched with the laser. The back side has a flat mesh and the front side has the projected mesh.
I am so very excited for the show.
Well, the work all seems to be done with a crazy flurry of activity right up until the very end. I have included images of the last two works — am still mentally processing its meaning.
This body of work, titled Limena (including works-Limen, Unknowable, Niche, Repair, Spectacle), uses commercially made ceramic decals made from photographs I shot that describes limenal spaces or the spaces that exist in between. These thresholds serves as a metaphor for transformation-a crossing over from one state to the next.
the kiln is off – but its 90 degrees in Phoenix! I’m flying tomorrow and still not ready to go…a bit concerned that 17 kilos of enamelled iron may not make it through airport security! I’ll embrace the experience and look forward to seeing the show…
Catherine works across discipline boundaries, excited by the potential of combining traditional processes with new technologies. She is an artist and educator, and lives in Wales.
I finished the work just a few days ago and sent it off after a bit of a struggle to complete it. I often drag my feet at the end and this time around was no different. It’s those small details that cause me to procrastinate. Anyway, I am pleased with the final pieces…I also wrote a short statement which I am really happy I did. It helped me to make sense of it all. I have posted it below.
“These works are about singular moments collected while observing the winter landscape around my current home in North Carolina and my childhood home in New York State. The moments were solitary and quiet; some deliberate, others accidental. Through a process of experimentation with liquid enamel on steel, I reinterpreted and captured these moments, presenting them in ghostlike translucency, as echoes of the memories. Each enamel piece is also accompanied by found objects that are aged and worn. When arranged together, the enameled and found objects establish a narrative for the recollection of my observations.”
I posted more images on Flickr, including some details.
the work is in Phoenix. I’m grateful for the blog since I won’t get to see the exhibit. My work has focused on bodies of water in recent years. I’ve also been teaching a photographic transfer method via gum bichromate. I love the process and results produced but rarely use it in my work. I’ve posted an image of an earlier piece using this process, followed by a series of platters that will be in the exhibit, in progress and complete. The second body of work sent to Phoenix is based on vernal pools.
Gretchen Goss is an enamelist and educator who lives and works in the USA. "An ongoing attraction to the natural world is the inspiration for my work. Prevailing themes derived from the landscape include; farms, gardens, plant forms and water; an examination and view of the most valued aspects of my life."
Gretchen featured in our first Heat Exchange exhibition in 2012.
