
Placement: Co-Adorn Exhibition, Vancouver
PLACEMENT EXHIBITION
CoAdorn Art Jewellery Society group exhibition
Curated by Kye-Yeon Son & Barbara Cohen
Opening: Thursday January 23, 6pm
On view: January 24 – March 15, 2020
FREE ADMISSION
Tuesday – Friday: 9am – 5pm
Saturday & Sunday: 11am – 4pm
http://www.craft-design.ns.ca/current-exhibition
The Mary E. Black is delighted to be hosting Placement an exhibit of
works by members of CoAdorn Art Jewellery Society curated by Kye-Yeon
Son and Barbara Cohen. The Mary E. Black Gallery will be the first stop
for Placement opening this internationally touring exhibition – the
first of its kind for the burgeoning Art Jewellery Society. After
establishing itself only a few short years ago CoAdorn has made a
national name for itself as a premier contemporary Canadian jewellery
collective with membership expanding far beyond its origins in Halifax
NS. Placement will feature forty-five works from thirty-five artists
hailing from provinces across Canada. Its next stops will be Seoul,
Korea and Vancouver, BC. “We are excited to showcase Canadian art
jewellery in multiple venues including internationally” says CoAdorn
Co-Chair Emily Wareham.
The works selected for Placement explore the narrative conjured by
jewellery’s unique relationship with place. Barbara Cohen writes in the
curatorial catalogue “…many of the artists approached their work from a
geographical and cultural perspective, using the place they were born or
live as a jump off point for their work.” …. “Some of the artists’
jewellery rely on its placement and movement of the body to further
inform their work”.
Placement pursues the influence of location on Jewellery’s inherently
evolving relationship to the body – the relationship to the maker in
the studio, to the wearer and their inhabitants in the every day, as
well as the relationship to the viewer who encounters the work either in
the gallery or in the wider world.
Please join us for the opening reception of Placement on January 23
at 6pm. The exhibition will run at the Mary E. Black Gallery from
January 24 to March 15, 2020.
Facebook Event Information: https://www.facebook.com/events/473836433548446/ (link is external)
We respectfully acknowledge that The Mary E. Black Gallery and the
Centre For Craft Nova Scotia is situated in Mi’kma’ki, which is the
unceded traditional ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people.
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