Tue 17 Mar 2009
Jewelry artist Sarah Hood at the Tacoma Art Museum Biennial
Posted by Marlow Harris under Art , Video , Visual Arts1 Comment
Rock Hushka discusses the work of jewelry artist Sarah Hood at the Tacoma Art Museum’s Northwest Biennial.
Sarah Hood (SarahHoodJewelry.com) creates unique jewelry pieces ranging from very wearable limited edition jewelry to one-of-a-kind sculptural art jewelry, and several of her pieces are on view at the Tacoma Art Museum Beinnial.
The Biennial considers recent developments and accomplishments by Northwest artists. The 9th Northwest Biennial focuses on the current aesthetic and conceptual concerns addressed by regional artists. Through an increasingly complex matrix of influences, Northwest artists adapt and shed ideas, media, and imagery to define themselves as artists while reinventing or restating the core notion of a Northwest artist. Because the concept of regional art continually collapses and rebuilds, the subtle shifts in the imagery, stylistic impulses, and conceptual foundations reveal how the regions artist community participates in the broad dialogue of contemporary art.
In these pieces by Sarah Hood, the artist takes a break from the real natural materials – leaves, pods, seeds – which have compelled her work for many years to create miniature, artificial worlds within the context of jewelry. Working with model railroad landscape materials allows her to create tiny snapshots of the natural world, scenes that can trick the eyes into believing they are seeing something much larger. In several pieces, this deceit is challenged by the combination of these small constructed natural forms with full scale, cast sterling branches which, in material, are equally unreal and illusionary.
The show will run through May 25th, 2009.
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