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September 10, 2024, Washington DC—Jewelers’Werk Galerie is pleased to present LOOSE ENDS, an exhibition featuring new work by artist-jeweler Lydia E. Martin. The show opens on Saturday, September 21st, with a reception to meet the artist from 12 – 4 pm, and will remain on view through October 12th, 2024.
Lydia Martin is truly tying up loose ends with this exhibition, wrapping up a body of work whose long process of creating, contemplating, solving the unresolved, begun in 2017. Her hands torsion, knot and stretch, bend and flow the silver, the metal of her choice, in elastic ways, freeing it from its preconceived forms, shapes or notions of metalworking perfection.The artist shares that “The completed pieces act as vessels for self-expression, reflecting the way individuals might construct themselves.” She examines with an observant, thoughtful eye and a playful spirit, our relationships with ourselves and with others. Martin muses that “all the things that bring us together” are ”all hopes and no dreams nothing quite as it seems”. And she has some wise words for us all “when we’re stuck, wrap and secure them, loosen and begin again”.Lydia E. Martin is a contemporary jewelry artist, educator, and curator based in Little Rock, Arkansas, where she is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Art in Metal, and the Windgate Artist in Residence in Metal at the University of Arkansas. She holds an M.F.A. in jewelry and metalsmithing from the State University of New York at New Paltz, NY, and a B.F.A. in jewelry and metalsmithing from the Rochester Institute of Technology, in Rochester, NY. Martin has exhibited worldwide. This is Martin’s second solo exhibition at Jewelers’Werk.
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
