“Coming Into View,” a current exhibit at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, features nontraditional, artistic jewelry. The artists, who hail from five different countries, “investigate the social, political, cultural and psychological aspects of adornment,” said Mary Hallam Pearse, one of the show’s curators, in a statement. Their pieces “represent fresh perspectives in contemporary jewelry,” including how jewelry reflects the world’s geography and politics, according to the statement.
“The jewelry in ‘Coming into View’ can confront, provoke, entice, disturb, seduce and challenge our perceptions and preconceived notions of what jewelry should be. We hope it offers an expanded realm of what jewelry can be,” Pearse said.
Artist Anya Kivarkis, University visiting assistant professor, has three pieces in the exhibit, which runs until Feb. 18. Her work is a “historical revision, a challenge of authoritarian historical (ornamentation) through alteration and mutation,” she said in an e-mail interview. “My interest is in disrupting how jewelry operates as a signifier of access to luxury. …The work responds to emerging social and economic conditions and the effects of those conditions on the material culture that we collectively desire.”
The museum is free to University students, faculty and staff.