OPENING: “BodyWork” features wearable glass jewelry at Bullseye Gallery

Artist Catherine Newell wearing Elizabeth Aro's work Sewing on the Skin (2011)

Tonight Bullseye Gallery presents a series of wearable artworks by nine female artists from around the world. Titled “BodyWork” the exhibit focuses on the performative nature of adornment and explores the relationship between the work and the wearer.

Featured artists include Elizabeth Aro, Heike Brachlow, Jane Bruce, Bonnie Celeste, Silvia Levenson, Erica Rosenfeld, Luisa Restrepo, Blanche Tilden, and Yoko Yagi. All of these women have chosen to augment their sculptural glass artwork with jewelry making. The works range from necklaces and pendants to clothing studded with glass beading. Keep an eye out for Erica Rosenfeld’s They Loved Their House So Much They Would Do Anything To Keep It (2010). The piece looks like a bandeau style top covered with lustrous black beads, all hand crafted by the artist. A more discerning viewer will see, upon further examination, a few pairs of eyes staring back at them from inside the beads. Rosenfeld fused images into a few of the beads keeping them well hidden in the overall beautiful work. The piece evokes materialism and how we become trapped by the promises of the material world.

Watch a slideshow of some of the work that will be on display at Bullseye Gallery.

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—Ruth Reader