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other 2005 exhibits
October 6, - October 31, 2005.
Pacini Lubel will present the work of Catherine Newell in the east gallery and Rebecca Raven in the west gallery from October 6, 2005 through October 31, 2005. In the jewelry gallery the first installation of Glitter... Sparkle... Reflect is installed featuring new work by Doris Betz and introducing Sharon Portelance and Karl Fritsch.
Catherine Newell has exhibited her kilnformed glass internationally. Catherine "works to celebrate the individual. Each of us has very personal perceptions about how the world works based upon our personal history, which is composed of memory. Individual perspective quite naturally determines individual reality. Reality is really only what we say it is. It is that persistence of memory, constituting the singularity of the individual, that I am driven to respectfully present in my work".
Catherine Newell
Kilnformed Glass with Powder Detail
30" x 6" x1"
More works by Catherine Newell
Painter, Rebecca Raven writes that " I am interested, above all, in people and in manners in which we communicate, express and develop meaning. As an artist I find inspiration in gesture and in subtle variations of facial expressions".
 
Rebecca Raven
Drift (and detail)
oil on aluminum
2005
More works by Rebecca Raven
Sharon Portelance
"Ring Corsage: Memory Breathes"
Sterling silver, 18K & 22K Gold
Sharon Portelance has received international attention with the current body of work. She was featured in Schmuck 2003 in Munich and was featured in Ornament Magazine in 2004. The new pieces loosely reference nineteenth-century Victorian mourning jewelry. Corsages, like mourning jewelry, operate as personal mementos; reminding us of a person or marking a past event. In some of her pieces, a dialogue exists between the front of the corsage and the back. This dialogue suggests the intimate nature between what is also private and what is public. With this new work, Sharon was hoping to create a symbiotic relationship between the past and the present, reminding us of how memory changes over time and in effect remains breathing in the present.
More work by Sharon Portelance
Karl Fritsch
"Ring"
2005
Silver - Oxidized Black & Glass
Karl Fritsch starts the statement about his work by asking this simple question:
"How does the ring wish to look? The gold and silver must be sick to be shaped in these variations of barocky and geometric shapes."
Before his time at the renowned Munich Academy where he wanted to make disgusting looking jewelry - drawing more attention than a pretty piece would - Karl completed a traditional jewelry apprenticeship in Pforzheim and learned all the classical jewelry making techniques. The real learning however, came afterwards. Now he constantly has to work on how the knowledge he learned in his apprenticeship can be used to create his own statement. This is after all one of jewelry's issues - attention and attraction. I noticed a few years ago that in my jewellery work I'm constantly reworking my own history: the ordinary formula of shape and colour you would expect to find in jewellery. Karl's work is best understood by placing a piece on your own hand.....it is then that the magic becomes real.
More work by Karl Fritsch
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