Re-Formation was a show that I curated in Fall of 2021 at the Heller Gallery.

As an artist and designer and someone who has been making jewelry since childhood, I have always thought about how jewelry can talk about history, tradition, desire, memory, material associations, culture, class, ritual, art, craft, design and connections between humans. In bringing this diverse group of artists together, my hope is that the dialogue between their work will convey some of these ideas.

Re-formation is a wearable art show where I have asked mixed media and multidisciplinary artists who work in sculpture, installation, performance and/ or functional design to reimagine their artwork into jewelry. The exhibition will be comprised of work from artists who normally work with glass, ceramics, plastics, found objects and video. Most of these makers have never made jewelry or focus on their art and jewelry design practices simultaneously.

The artists explore themes such as mass fear, sensor control, rebirth, cultural heritage, fantasy, and create dialogues in their work that talk about our country's political climate, American history, technology, collective consciousness, the psychology of fear and gender politics. All of these artists meet somewhere at the crossroads of art, craft and design and their work for the exhibition might seem to blur the lines between fine art and decorative art.