Taboo Studio Contemporary Art Jewelry - Kathleen Browne

CONTEMPORARY ART JEWELRY

Taboo Studio

1615½ W. Lewis Street

San Diego, CA 92103

619.692.0099

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Kathleen Browne

Taboo Exhibition History

Kathleen Browne - Artist Statement and Résumé.

Artist Statement

The images used in this series of jewelry pieces are appropriated from a pulp magazine printed during the 1950’s titled Secrets. The magazine photos were overly dramatic and stagy, both tragic and unintentionally comic, but somehow they captured the zeitgeist regarding female transgression. These reconfigured images freeze a moment in the daily drama of our lives and, set as jewels, they serve as paeans to the mundane.

By first manipulating, then converting these images to enamel decals (and firing them onto the surface) I can exploit the historical conventions of enameled portrait miniatures, and, in particular, 18th century decal transfers. Hand-painted enamel portrait miniatures were luxury items but with the development of the decal transfer process, in the mid-18th century, such jewels were affordable to a wider audience. Then as now the enameled image serves to provide a democratized view of time and place.

Résumé

Education

1986	Master of Fine Arts (Metalsmithing), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL.
1983	Bachelor of Art (Metalsmithing), San Diego State University, San Diego, CA.

Work Experience

2002-present

Professor and Head, Jewelry/ Metals/ Enameling Dept., Kent State University, Kent, OH.

Selected Grants/Awards

2004,2001, 1998,1996, 1994	Individual Artist Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council.
2000	Cimelice Residency (2 months), Cimelice Castle, Cimelice, Czech Republic Sponsored by The Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art-Prague and the Ohio Arts Council.

Selected Exhibitions

2004	Korean and American Metalsmithing Exhibition, Kepco Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea (international, invitational).
	Rings, Gallery of Art and Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (national, invitational).
	Featured Artists, Mobilia Gallery, International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art, New York, NY (international, invitational).
	Exhibition in Print, Metalsmith Magazine, Fall 2004 (scheduled) (international, competitive).
2003	Botanical Jewelry, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
	Exposition of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art (SOFA), Chicago, IL (international, invitational).
	Charmed Lives, Facere Gallery, Seattle WA (national, invitational).
	Exhibition in Print, Metalsmith Magazine, Fall 2003 (international, competitive).
	BigLITTLE, Crafts and Cultural Art Gallery, Oakland, CA (national, competitive).
	On The Edge, Evergreen College, Olympia, WA; Gallery Mack, Seattle WA; Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, WA (international, competitive).
	Schmuck 2003, Special Jewellery Exhibition, 55th International Trade Fair, Munich, Germany (international, competitive).
2001-2003	The Ring Exhibition, (traveling); Ruthin Gallery, Ruthin, Wales; Colorado Springs Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO; University of Texas Art Gallery, University of Texas-El Paso, El Paso, TX; Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA.
	International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art, New York, NY; Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI (international, invitational).
2002	Daily Confidential, Studio Fusion Gallery, OXO Building, London, England; University of the West of England, Bristol, England; Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA (solo, invitational).
	Connections: Ohio Artists Abroad, (sponsored by the Ohio Arts Council), Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH; SPACES, Cleveland, OH; Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (regional, invitational).
2002-1999	Featured Artists, Susan Cummins Gallery, International Exposition of Sculpture, Objects and Functional Art, New York, NY and Chicago, IL (international, invitational).
2001	Contemporary Metalsmiths, Gardiner Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK (national, invitational)
	Feat of Clay, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England (international, invitational).
2000	Residency Exhibition and Open House, (four installations) Cimelice Castle, Czech Republic (international, invitational).
	Attitude & Action: North American Figurative Jewelry, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England, Birmingham, England; DESIGNyard, Dublin, Ireland (international, invitational).
	Ironing: Women’s Work, Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN (national, invitational).

Selected Bibliography
Reviews/Articles/ Works Cited

2004	Juror: Robert Ebendorf, 1000 Rings, Lark Books, Ashville, NC (3 works reproduced).
	Linda Darty, Enameling, Lark Books, Ashville, NC (fall 2004) (work reproduced).
	Matthew Partington, Badges in Bristol; ETC at UWE, Findings, Association of Contemporary Jewellery, United Kingdom, March 2004 (work reproduced and cited)
2003	Investing in Ceativity, The Urban Institute, Washington, D.C. (work reproduced).
2002	Frank Green, Making Connections, North East Ohio Live Magazine, September, 2002 (work reviewed and work reproduced).
	Jacqueline Hall, Ohioans explore new horizons, Columbus Dispatch, May 12, 2002 (work reviewed).
2001	Janet Marquardt-Cherry,Secrets: Kathleen Browne’s Revealing Jewelry, Woman’s Art Journal, Fall 2001/Winter 2002 (short feature).
2000	Zamek v Cimelicich se otevrel verejnosti, Dnes (national daily newspaper of the Czech Republic), September 25, 2000 (work reviewed).
	Rosita Boland, Adornments with attitude, The Irish Times, Dublin, Ireland, September 9, 2000 (work reproduced).
	Mimi Clark, Ironing: Women’s Work (two-part feature), Anvil Magazine, October, 2000 (work and statement reproduced).
	Debra Elliott, Women’s Work: Female metalsmiths tell their stories with steely conviction, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, TN, June 25, 2000 (work reproduced and reviewed).
1999	Tim McCreight, The Metalsmith's Book of Boxes and Lockets, Brynmorgen Press (work reproduced).