In my past work, I have intentionally created tension regarding scale, materials, and wear-ability within a formal dialogue of jewelry. Specifically looking at structures and forms of life in the natural world that are tenuous, layered, frail, yet complex or resilient, much like our own physical bodies, I fabricated elaborate, fragile vessels to be held or worn utilizing extremely fine gauges of metal with the textile techniques of bobbin-lace, knitting and crochet.
In recent explorations, I have focused more on experimentation and exploration in vitreous enamel, wanting to utilize these techniques with my ongoing interest in natural structures and vessels and the associations I make regarding the seemingly fragile, yet innate ability of the human body as a vessel to endure or sustain. |
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Alicia received her BFA at Murray State University in Functional Design in 2000 and her MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in Jewelry and Metals. As a graduate student she taught community education and university metalsmithing and foundation classes. Over the past two years Alicia has been adjunct faculty and a studio technician at the Appalachian Center for Craft/Tennessee Tech University in the metalsmithing and blacksmithing studios. She has exhibited work in juried and invitational shows such as Craftforms 2005, Wayne, Penna., Reinterpreting the Vessel, Chicago, Ill., and the Southern Highland Craft Guild Exhibition, Asheville, N.C.
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Minute Tension
Brooch, sterling silver, fine silver and 18K gold,
12.7 x 5 x 3.8 cm, 2005
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Euplectella
Brooch, sterling silver, fine silver, 18K gold and stainless steel,
12.7 x 5 x 3.8 cm, 2005
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Nuture
Vessel, copper, sterling silver, fine silver, enamel and silk thread,
2007, inside view
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Nuture
Vessel, copper, sterling silver, fine silver, enamel and silk thread,
2007, side view
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Snag
Brooch, vitreous enamel, copper,
sterling silver, fine silver, silk thread,
2007
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