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Helen ShirkARTIST'S STATEMENTMy relationship with nature has strengthened over the years, becoming a spiritual resource for my life and art. Currently I'm working on a body of jewelry for the first time since 1994, still using the natural world as my focus. I worry about the effects of global warming, man-made calamities, diminishing resources and species. I find myself wondering what the earth will look like for my son and grandchildren. It has made me consider the vital role nature plays in my enjoyment of life everyday. This series is called Traces. After years of making pieces that didn't involve the body, I chose to use the smaller scale and traditional materials of jewelry to evoke a sense of intimacy and preciousness; that seemed appropriate for reflection on pleasure and loss. I'm still involved with color, but there is some violence in it.VELVET DA VINCI SHOWS200 RINGS -- Rings from 200 International Artists CHESS -- Contemporary Chessmen by International Makers FERROUS -- A collaborative exhibition by Velvet da Vinci and crafthaus Helen Shirk: Traces -- Opening Reception: Friday January 7, 6-8pm COUNTRY OF RESIDENCEUSA EDUCATIONBS, Skidmore College, Saratoga, New York, 1963 Kunsthaandvaerkerskolen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1964 MFA, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1969 SELECTED EXHIBITIONSRead My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY 2009 Remake/Remodel, Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, TN, 2009 Talking Hands: Spectrum of Contemporary Metal Works, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 2009 Form and Function: American Modernist Jewelry, 1940-1970, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN 2008 New West Coast Design, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2008 Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX 2007 Field of Vision, SoFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2007 The Art of Conceptual Craft: Selections from the Wornick Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 2007 Jewelry by Artists: the Daphne Fargo Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 2007 Craft In America, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR and Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, TX 2007 Challenging the Chatelaine, Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland 2006 Basket (R)evolution, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2006 Symbols of Identity: Jewelry from Five Continents, Miingei International Museum, San Diego, CA 2006 Transformations: the Language of Craft, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia 2005 A View From America: Contemporary Jewelry, Gold Treasury Museum, Melbourne, Australia 2004 Historical Connections, Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA 2004 NCAD Master and Student, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland, 2004 Solo Exhibition, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2003 Beyond the Mines: The California Art of Gold, Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, CA 2003 Extreme Metal, Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL 2003 Artists and the Cultivated Landscape, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI 2003 Steel City: Contemporary America in Metal, Sangre de Crista Art Center, Puebla, CO 2002 Escape from the Vault: The Contemporary's Collection Breaks Out, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI 2002 Challenge VI -Roots: Insights and Inspirations to Contemporary Turned Obiects, Susquehanna Art Museum, Indianapolis Art Museum, IN 2001 Cheongiu International Craft Biennale, Cheongju-city, Korea 2001 Who Knows Where or When, Wustum Museum, Racine, WI 2000 20th Century at the Turn of the Millenium, Helen Drutt: Philadelphia, PA 2000 Twenty Objects from the Late 20th Century, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC 2000 World Competition of Arts and Crafts, Kanazawa, Japan 1999 Seoul Internatianal Metal Artists Invitational, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea 1999 Brooching It Diplomaticallv: A Tribute to Madelaine Albright, Museum Het Kruithuis, Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands, and the Museum of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland 1998 Benchmarkers: Women in Metal, National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, TN, 1998 American Masters of Late 20th Century Holloware, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA 1997 Celebrating American Craft 1975-1995, Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark 1997 Helen Shirk: Contemporary Jewelry 1970-1995, Helen Drutt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 1995 American Craftsman Series: Vessels, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY 1994 Corpus: Norwegian and International Craft Art, Vestlandske Kunstindustri Museum, Bergen, Norway 1993 Sculptural Concerns: Contemporarv American Metalsmithing, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Ohio, 1993 New Acquisitions, American Craft Museum, New York 1992 Design Visions, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 1991 Helen Shirk: Vessels, Kurtz-Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN 1990 SELECTED PUBLICATIONSRead My Pins: Stories From a Diplomat's Jewel Box, Madeleine Albright, HarperCollins, 2009 Form and Function: American Modernist Jewelry, 1940-1970, Marbeth Schon, Schiffer, 2008 Ornament as Art: Avant-Garde Jewelry from the Helen Williams Drutt Collection, Arnoldsche, Stuttgart, Germany, 2007 500 Metal Vessels: Contemporary Explorations of Containment, curated by Fred Fenster, Lark Books, 2007 Challenging the Chatelaine, Marianne Aav and Helen Drutt English, Designmuseo, Helsinki, Finland 2006 500 Baskets, curated by Jan Peters, Lark Books, 2006 500 Necklaces, curated by Marjorie Schick, Lark Books, 2006 Penland Book of Jewelry, Lark Books, North Carolina 2005 1000 Rings, curated by Robert Ebendorf, Lark Books, North Carolina 2004 Women Designers in the USA 1900-2000, Pat Kirkham, Bard Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York 2000 Color on Metal, Tim McCreight and Nicole Bsullak, Guild Publishing, 2001 Dictionnaire International du Bijou, Edition du Regarde, Paris 1998 Brooching It Diplomatically; A Tribute to Madelaine Albright, Helen Drutt, 1998 Jewelry of Our Time, Helen Drutt English and Peter Dormer, Thames and Hudson, 1995 One of a Kind: American Art Jewelry Today, Susan Lewin, Harry Abrams, 1994 Design Visions, edited by Robert Bell, Art Gallery of Western Australia, 1992 Silbergestaltung: Zeitaenossische Formen und Tendenzen, Weber, Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1992 International Crafts, edited by Martina Margetts, Thames and Hudson, 1991 Product Design 4, edited by Joel Sokolov, PBC Internati.onal, 1990 80's Style: Designs of the Decade, Albrecht Bangert and Karl Armer, Abbeville Press, 1990 The New Jewelry: Trends and Traditions, Peter Dormer and Ralph Turner, Thames and Hudson, 1985 Contemporary American Craft Art: A Collector's Guide, Barbara Mayer, Peregrine Smith Books, 1988 Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, 1986 American Crafts: A Source Book for the Home, Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1983 Jewelrv Concepts and Technology, Oppi Untracht, Doubleday, NY, 1982 American Style, Fall 1998, p. 48, October 2006 (cover) California Design '76, California Design Publications, 1976 American Craft: Apr 1980, Jun 1981, Oct 1986, Aug 1988, Jun 1989, Oct 1990, Feb 1995, July 1995, Oct 1999 Metalsmith: Fall 1980, Fall 1981, Summer 1984, Winter 1985, Summer 1987, Fall 1987, Fall 1990, Summer 1996, Fall 2006; Exhibition in Print, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2009 GRANTS AND AWARDSFulbright Grant to Denmark, 1963 National Endowment for the Arts Craftsman's Fellowship, 1978 Fellow of the American Craft Council, 1999 COLLECTIONSVictoria and Albert Museum, London, England Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN Mint Museum of Craft and Design, Charlotte, NC Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA University of Texas, El Paso, TX Marietta College, Marietta, OH Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Helen Williams Drutt Collection Top |
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