Focus Gallery
Jessica Calderwood: Enamelist, Metalsmith
May 3 – June 16
Jessica Calderwood
Enamel Jewelry, Sculpture, and Mixed Media Paintings
My most recent series combines flower/botanical forms with fragments of the human body in order to address the narrative of human life cycles: change, growth, metamorphosis, aging, loss. The choice to use flower and plant forms is multi-layered. Flowers have been used throughout history as symbols of the feminine. It can be found in mythology, literature, folklore and visual art. In addition, Western culture has an intricate system of flower symbolism that has been a way for humans to express and communicate complex emotions.
I created these works to be intentionally humorous and ironic. These human/plant hybrids are large, voluptuous, headless, and sometimes armless. They are intended to portray a spectrum of concepts relating to gender and identity. The Flower People are at once, powerful and powerless, beautiful and absurd, inflated, and amputated.
Jessica Calderwood
Artist Information
jessicacalderwood.com
FOCUS GALLERY EXHIBITIONS 2013
Tina Mullen: Drawings and Paintings
March 22 – April 28
Jessica Calderwood: Enamel Jewelry and Sculpture
May 3 – June 16
Marlene True: Metals
June 21 – July 28
Ronan Peterson: Ceramics
August 2 – September 15
Martina Lantin: Ceramics
September 20 – October 27
Ornaments
November 1 – December 8
To purchase work from the current exhibit, please call
828 765 6211 or e-mail gallery@penland.org