Space-Light-Structure: The
Jewelry of Margaret De Patta is the first major retrospective of this
seminal figure in the American studio jewelry movement.
The exhibition is a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre offering new scholarship on how this American Modernist influenced studio jewelry as both maker and social activist.
Space-Light-Structure will feature 65 jewelry pieces as well as ceramics, flatware, photographs, photograms, and newly released archival material.
In addition, the exhibition will display Constructivist pieces by such renowned European modernists as Laszlo Moholy - Nagy, Gyorgy Kepes, and Alexander Archipenko, whose work shaped De Patta's aesthetic sensibilities and vision.
The exhibition is a comprehensive overview of her oeuvre offering new scholarship on how this American Modernist influenced studio jewelry as both maker and social activist.
Space-Light-Structure will feature 65 jewelry pieces as well as ceramics, flatware, photographs, photograms, and newly released archival material.
In addition, the exhibition will display Constructivist pieces by such renowned European modernists as Laszlo Moholy - Nagy, Gyorgy Kepes, and Alexander Archipenko, whose work shaped De Patta's aesthetic sensibilities and vision.
