Where it is: Lawrimore Project

Like a corrupt pope, your city is currently dripping with jewelry. This oversize tongue brooch, for instance, is coated in such a thick layer of salmony beads that it feels, in the hands, like a muscular tongue; this is gross in the best way, the most bodily way. All this jewelry is here because of the Society of North American Goldsmiths conference this weekend. Other highlights: Jana Brevick’s robots and diamonds at SOIL, the kick-ass ring weapons at G. Gibson, and Gemma Draper’s horns-meet-Tron pieces at Greg Kucera. These aren’t just decorative baubles. They have titles. Best title: Grapes and Snot.

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...

7 replies on “Blart”

  1. Sadly-this is nothing more than a gratuitous, smarmy, commercial schmooze by gallerists who just aren’t making it financially so they pander to the ridiculous ‘jewelry as art’ by-line(for this weekend-at least) to make a buck.
    Note: Sad comment on Gallery support for working local artists.
    Question Graves-wouldn’t you be pissing ALLOVER this type of venue if they weren’t within the hallowed halls of your anointed galleries-the very ones you’ve decided you can tolerate and are worthy. “Off with their heads” would be your imperious rant had this been something you were asked to consider at Facere or any other appropriate venue/gallery, but nooooo-clearly this crap is okay, right?) What’s next, Jen?
    Maybe this column should be titled:
    “Cuz I said so…juss cuz.”

  2. Zzzzzzzzzxo 69r. Once again you know not of what you speak.
    Local jewelry artists, by your measure, are not “working local artists?” And the galleries supporting these local jewelry artists are only in it for the buck? It pains me how bitter, myopic and clueless you are. Please take your personal vendetta with JG elsewhere and leave good, earnest, hardworking artists and galleries out of it.

    If you are yourself, as we all assume, a hardworking, earnest local artist that somehow feels under-recognized or slighted by JG or the hoighty-toighty art elite, screw ’em. JG is but one voice and there is another 95% of the art world that might give you the recognition you think you and others deserve.

    Start your own damn revolution (blog, gallery, newspaper, movement) or at least try be less ignorant, indignant or indigestion-inducing when you post here. We all get what you’re after here, and we can all find some merit to some of your arguments. Just be careful when you take wild pot shots at things you know very little about or haven’t seen/experienced firsthand. This only weakens all of your other points (which are becoming quite dull).

  3. Hibrowsucka-
    Again, we know who you are and reiterate that you are not helping your own cause here.

  5. please give us a clue to who it is cos maybe they’ll stop mucking up the posts and find something better to do with their free time!

  6. Sucka69: DFA. Did you miss that it is a CONFERENCE that is like, you know, a special event, so boo-hooing about it lasting a weekend is…annoying. Also if you paused and thought before you spewed such vitriolic rants all over the internet, you could cross-reference Society of North American Goldsmiths and Facere and see that a number of Facere’s artists have showed at North American Goldsmith conferences before. Your post is truly bizarre. If you are an art jewelry enthusiast, you should be excited. I am, on both counts. And no, in a publication that covers visual art in all mediums you are not going to see a lot of coverage of craft or artisinal crafts or crafts-as-art. That is why is Artforum is a magazine and also Amercian Craft is a magazine, repeat for a number of other publications. They are separate and beautiful and occasional have crossover. Like life.

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