Focus Gallery
Marlene True: Metals
June 21 – July 28
Marlene True
Metals: Fabricated Steel and Tin Jewelry
My jewelry presents an ongoing passion, curiosity and exploration in material transformation. I fabricate with steel from old tin cans, toys and signs and also use them as a source for color, images, and text. These utilitarian objects have their own histories that speak to the passage of time seen through fading paint, scratches and rust. Bridging memory, these colors and imperfect surfaces are reminiscent of home of old and worn farm equipment, of work of the hand, garden, and its inhabitants. Meshing repurposed materials with an undercurrent of past and present is an act of redemption for both memory and material in the process of making.
Marlene True
Artist Statement
Artist Bio
marlenetrue.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