Opening In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works on Saturday, September 21 from 7-9PM.

On View September 21 - November 10, 11AM-6PM.

We are also hosting an Artist Talk with Myra Mimlitsch-Gray on October 26, from 2-3pm in the Gallery.

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray explores facture, conceptualizing material conditions to construct fictions. The technical methods are both deliberate and open-ended, resulting in a range of outcomes that share certain through-lines. Tension builds between familiar surface and unconventional form. The organic process is tempered by an analytical slice.

Conduit presents interconnections across several series of works and  the ideas conveyed by their juxtaposition. 

Myra Mimlitsch-Gray (b. 1962) explores craft as subject and object, engaging the field’s history and methods to interpret utility and form. Her studio practice is at times speculative, theoretical, and in conversation with pedagogical concerns. She conceptualizes material conditions to construct fictions and portraits. Facture is explored as an idea and then constructed as an image; this research is reflected in the objects she generates.

Mimlitsch-Gray received her MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. An American Craft Council Fellow, Mimlitsch-Gray was recently named Master of the Medium by the James Renwick Alliance. As professor she received two Chancellor’s Awards from the State University of New York: Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, and Excellence in Teaching. She has been awarded individual artist fellowships by the United States Artists Foundation, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Mimlitsch-Gray’s work is widely exhibited and included in public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museums of Scotland, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. She maintains a studio in the Hudson Valley of New York.

Images courtesy of the artist: www.mimlitschgray.com

Opening In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works on Friday, July 12, from 7-9PM.

On View July 12 - August 25 11AM-6PM.

We are also hosting an Artist Talk with Sulo Bee on August 24, 2-3:30pm in the Gallery.

The otherness, the ethereal, and the shadows converge in a single moment to create a liminal space of gathered memories. Parts and pieces of pastel dreams, soft star dust, and flowers blooming on trellises— spectral echoes in an in-between place. 

Here, these elements intersect with the planes of reality, creating makeshift gardens where semi-corporeal creatures serve as artifacts of their melding — collecting stones and elemental spirits to manifest a physical body in an alternate realm called $P4RKL3_FiLTH_CL0UD_NiN3. 

Between destinations and uncertainties lies a mezzanine, a place that exists in transition, between what was and what will be, on the precipice of what has yet to become tangible— makeshift gardens not meant for staying, but merely passing through.

“For this specific exhibition, I am thinking about the moving targets of my identity and the intersecting planes of reality they exist within, specifically liminal spaces as moments of extreme transition — and how these ‘Makeshift Gardens’ act as a space of solace and comfort —- a combination of the uncertainties that surround moments of transition and illuminate the dark like bright starlight . These makeshift gardens act as a buffer between myself and society, an in-between place meant for passing or transitioning.” - Sulo Bee

Sulo Bee is a nonbinary creature maker and world builder based in Central Texas. They hold a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from Texas State University in 2018 and an MFA from SUNY New Paltz in 2022. Sulo has exhibited their work nationally and internationally with various galleries in the United States, Europe, and Australia. They are a co-founder of Queer Metalsmiths where they seek to uplift queer voices in the field of metalsmithing and craft. Sulo was named one of ten artists in the nation for the 2022 Emerging Artist Cohort with American Craft Council and later received the esteemed Marzee Graduate Prize at the International Graduate Show with Galerie Marzee. Throughout 2023, Sulo was a participant in the GEMz talent programme with Current Obsession Magazine and developed a body of work for exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Netherlands for the OBSESSED! Jewellery Festival on display through January 2024. Recently, they were commissioned to create a piece for the Museum of Art and Design. The acquisitioned work debuted at the Museum of Art and Design in April 2024 for the “OUT of the Jewelry Box” exhibition.

Sulo is currently a Lecturer in Metals and Foundations at the School of Art and Design at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

Opening In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works on Friday, May 17, from 7-9PM.

On View May 17 - June 30, 11AM-6PM

An extension of the hand, likened to a cupped palm, the spoon can be both simple and complex. This necessary object has developed over time to become ubiquitous, at moments prized, and even precious. 

Narratives, histories, and artists shape spoons, allowing them to evolve with each generation. Positioned at an intersection between familiar and strange, the works on view in Spoons encapsulate a diverse array of materials and processes. Functional or impractical, each piece serves as a testament to the distinct stories and creative perspectives brought forth by the participating artists, celebrating the enduring versatility and cultural resonance of the spoon. 

Featured artists include Adam John Manley, Addison de Lisle, Anna Koplik, Annie Meyer, Brian Weissman, Corey Ackelmire, David Harper Clemons, Elliot Earl Keeley, Emily Chen, Erica Moody, Erin S. Daily, Foley, Funlola Coker, Haley Bates, Hilla Shapria, Jenny Ibsen, Jessica Andersen, Jody Hanson, Naama Levit, Rachel Kedinger, and Suzanne Pugh.

This exhibition was curated by Brooklyn Metal Works Co-Founders, Erin S. Daily & Brian Weissman in collaboration with Naama Levit.

Opening In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works on Saturday, March 16, from 7-9PM.

On View March 16 - April 20th, 11AM-6PM.

We are also hosting an Artist Talk with Emily Culver on on April 20, 2-4pm in the Gallery.

Shop the exhibition here: Preludes

PRELUDES speculates on a multitude of possibilities by cataloging catalysts that hover on the cusp of becoming. The amalgamation of machinery and organic anatomy in these hybrid creations question whether transitions from the mechanical to the natural induce an elevated state of vulnerability and failure. Considering these Pinocchio-esque aspirations, Culver’s works contemplate the implications of (d)evolution and what it can mean to undergo such transformative processes.

Existing primarily as sculpture, objects and jewelry, Culver’s work explores notions of intimacy, (non)functionality, gender and identity through corporeal qualities. Through these works she considers how interactions among objects are interpreted, translated, and mutated by negotiations with the body and anthropocentric tendencies. Culver actively exhibits her creative work nationally and internationally and is the recipient of various awards and residencies, including a 2017 Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship and a 2022 residency at the James Castle House. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and is an Assistant Professor of Jewelry and Metalsmithing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.

Images courtesy of the artist: www.emily-culver.com

Opening In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works on Dec 1, 6-8PM, with the lighting of the works happening at 6:30pm.

On View Dec 1 - Feb 11, 11AM-6PM.

Coinciding with the darkest time of the year when people gather together to warm by a fire, light candles with reverence, gaze at celestial bodies, and add magic to the evenings with soft twinkling bulbs. Lux is an invitation to find illumination during the wintertime. This exhibition will showcase new objects made by artists that bring and house light.   

Featured artists include: Amelia Toelke, Amy Lemaire, Angela Dai, Beca Acosta, Brian Weissman, Hilla Shapira, Ho'o Hee, Jo-Ann Arosemena, Madelaine Corbin, Mia Hebib, Moein Shashaei, Naama Levitt, Odette Channell, Rocío Inès Marsyas, Samuel Guillen, Shuoyuan Bai, Suna Bonometti, Suzanne Sullivan, Tamar Mogendorff, and Zahra Almajidi.

This exhibition was curated by Naama Levit, Erin S. Daily and Brian Weissman.

On the Horizon

Eleven Emerging Contemporary Jewelers

Lynn Batchelder
Anja Eichler
Richard Elenbaas
Linnéa Eriksson
Jonathan Hens
Alexandra Hopp
John Huckins
Eugenia Ingegno
Sooyeon Kim
Yuni Kim Lang
Mallory Weston

An Exhibition Curated by {x}collaborations

F-1: Foreigners Living the American Jewelry Dream

David Choi
Alexia Cohen
Yoshie Enda
Hana Hong
Manuela Jimenez
Jina Seo
Katja Toporski
Ariane van Dieveot
Lane Vorster
Leeyeon Yoo

Brooklyn Metal Works and Platforma are proud to present F-1: Foreigners Living the American Jewelry Dream, featuring 10 international jewelry artists who have been trained here in the United States.

Platforma, a curatorial initiative launched by Bella Neyman and Ruta Reifen, will debut its inaugural exhibition, F-1, at Brooklyn Metal Works on May 3rd, 2014.

F-1 represents the visa status that all foreigners must procure to study in the United States. The purpose of the F-1 exhibition is to showcase work produced by foreign-born artists that were educated in the United States under an F-1 visa status.

F-1 will include the work of ten artists who have come to the United States from all corners of the world, including Belgium, South Africa, China, Korea, Germany, Colombia, Venezuela, and Japan. Their work, from aesthetics to materials (wood, concrete, porcelain, paper, fabric), is as diverse as their backgrounds. These individuals’ work combines the methodologies taught in United States schools with cultural references and art traditions that they identify with from home.

Founded in 2014, Platforma’s main goal is to bring art jewelry out of the confines of an intimate circle of curators, collectors, and connoisseurs and give it the same respect that is bestowed upon contemporary painting, sculpture, and design.  With this exhibition we seek to present work to an audience that is not familiar with art jewelry.

Platforma is the brainchild of Bella Neyman, a design historian and connoisseur, and Ruta Reifen, an Israeli jewelry artist and educator. A comprehensive catalogue will accompany the exhibition with an essay written by Jennifer Navva Milliken, an art historian, curator, and founder of INTER ALIA Projects. Brooklyn Metal Works (BKMW) is a metal art studio founded by Brian Weissman and Erin S. Daily that aims to promote the field of metalsmithing by providing a space for artists to work, as well as offer concept based classes and gallery space to promote artists, designers and makers.

For more information and please contact Bella Neyman and Ruta Reifen at platforma.one@gmail.com

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