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The most exciting thing that draws me to create jewelry is
its small scale. Shift of scale, and miniaturization in particular,
paradoxically reverses our associations with familiar forms. I enjoy
finding and in return asking the audience to find and explore all
those little secrets and paradoxes that shed light on our larger
cultural contradictions through tactile engagement with a piece
of jewelry. The structural complexity and microcosm quality of each
piece invites the wearer to almost imagine themselves smaller, in
order to experience every nuance as fantastic but tangible, artificial
yet somehow natural, aggressive yet sensual, simple yet infinite,
beautiful but horrific at once.
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1977. Living and working in the
USA since 1992.
Received MFA from SUNY New Paltz, USA and BFA from Parsons School
of Design, USA.
Taught metalsmithing at SUNY New Paltz and New Jersey City University.
Honors include: Herbert Hoffman Preis, (Germany), New York Foundation
for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship (US), Art Jewelry
Forum Emerging Artist Award (US), and Silvermine Guild Board of
Trustees Award (US). |
