Style Spotlight: Thinking Small and Large
- Corrine Perez-Garcia created this sculpture for “Little & Large.”
When Patricia Frischer, a founding member of the San Diego Visual Arts Network, heard that Alexander Calder’s jewelry would be the focus of a major exhibition at the San Diego Museum of Art this year, a light bulb went off. “This artist had created stunning sculptures, but also made more than 1,800 pieces of jewelry,” Frischer explains.
To pay homage to Calder, she asked close to 100 artists to each create one piece of jewelry and one sculpture to be exhibited side by side. The resulting work will be shown at 41 venues as part of a countywide exhibition, “Little & Large.”
Adorn Gallery in San Diego will showcase works by Mirjam Butz-Brown through Nov. 14; the Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery in La Jolla will feature works by Lisa Slovis Mandel, Corrine Perez-Garcia and Alexandra Hart through Dec. 31; and the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad will also celebrate Hart’s and Butz-Brown’s work, alongside that of Vickie Riggs, through Jan. 3, 2010.
The San Diego Museum of Art’s “Calder Jewelry” exhibition, also on view through Jan. 3, features approximately 90 necklaces, bracelets, brooches, earrings and tiaras—all worn by family and close friends of the artist—that demonstrate Calder’s love of abstraction and his unique mastery of this wearable art form.
