For the summer 2016 season, Aaron Faber Gallery invites you to enter jewelry artist Jennifer Trask’s Cabinet of Curiosities. Like the wunderkammern for which her early 2000s collection references, Trask marshals together a divergent assortment of crushed gems, peacock feathers, butterfly wings, powdered pigments and curiously unidentifiable objects to create artist jewelry as fantastically atypical as the women they adorn.
18K and 22K gold and silver crystal-covered round cases are locked together and redefined as wearable cabinets to lock away Trask’s miscellany of nature’s marvels – which include dyed beetles, Salamis parhassus wings, crushed shells, sulfur, leaf skeleton, and the occasional eyeshadow.
“Like that cabinet of curiosities, these colorful, wearable and inviting jewels provoke a range of responses upon close examination, from delight to caution to discomfort, that tell-tale frisson of our not-always-easy relationship with nature and our role in it,” says Patricia Faber, curator and co-owner of Aaron Faber Gallery.
“This is the territory that Trask explores in her jewelry collections: yes, breathtakingly beautiful…but is it ours to see, to have, to own? Judging from the many avid private collectors and public collections that have acquired Trask’s work, the answer is yes.”
JENNIFER TRASK PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC
- Museum of Arts + Design, New York, NY
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
- CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
- Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
- Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
- Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
- Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, NY
- Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
- Rotasa Foundation, Tiburon, CA
Robyn Hawk
Latest posts by Robyn Hawk (see all)
- BrilliAnt®, the 8th edition of the ADTF, Goes International - August 13, 2016
- AGTA Spectrum Awards™ "Platinum Honors" Winnners #AGTA15 - August 11, 2016
- YES! an #Olympic #Jewelry Story! It Happened In The Pool #JewelryMoment - August 9, 2016
