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Jewelers’Werk Galerie is pleased to present Open, Closed, Ajar: The Allegorical Locket, an exhibition featuring new work by artist-jeweler Heather White. The show opens on Saturday, June 15th, with a reception to meet the artist from 12 – 4 pm, and will remain on view through July 5, 2024.
In this exhibition, Heather White reconsiders the locket, an ancient, book-like binary form. Since antiquity, lockets have been worn for myriad symbolic and sentimental purposes—often concealing tiny enamel paintings, images, ashes, locks of hair, or other keepsakes or good luck charms. Here in White’s contemporary interpretation, the bodies of her lockets become the subject of interest rather than their interiors. Each unique piece is a synthesis of disparate elements—hard metals and soft textiles—that combine and explore beauty and sentiment, repetition and color. White muses, “Whether open, closed, or ajar, they allegorically reflect human anatomies and sentience.”
Heather White is a contemporary jewelry artist, professor, lecturer, and curator based in Boston where she also serves as Professor of Art at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She holds a B.F.A. in light metals and jewelry design from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and an M.F.A. in jewelry and metalsmithing from the State University of New York at New Paltz. White has won multiple prestigious international awards and exhibited worldwide. Her pieces are represented in the permanent collections of notable museums, including the Museum of Art and Design in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The exhibition is open during gallery hours: Monday through Saturday 11 am – 5 pm or by appointment. Jewelers’Werk Galerie is located at 3319 Cady’s Alley, NW in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. It is the longest-running and only contemporary art jewelry gallery of its kind in the greater Washington DC area, where owner and industry veteran Ellen Reiben shows precious and non-precious works by international artist-jewelers. For more information, contact the gallery at 202-337-3319, or go to: http://www.jewelerswerk.com
