Tag, You’re It!
Kiff Slemmons
First exhibited online in late 2020 through Gallery Loupe and The Jewelry Library as part of New York City Jewelry Week, Tag, You’re It! explores how jewelry both identifies us and draws together our diversities. Readymade key tags, which ordinarily serve as a mundane means of identification, have been transformed by artists and jewelers into necklaces whose visual language ranges from highly refined to spontaneously gestural. When the necklaces are worn, they move with you, with their own soundtrack, urging you to dance—and when in the hand, they disclose beauty, humor, even wonder. All are part of the notion that it takes more than one to make one: the power of the fragment on its own and in its capacity as part of a whole.
We are pleased to present this latest iteration of the show with all proceeds from sales to benefit Amigos del IAGO, founded by artist Francisco Toledo to develop cultural and educational projects in the state of Oaxaca.
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Ani Afshar
Mike Arnold
Susan Bennerstrom
Wally Bowling
Bette Burgoyne
Penny Burns
Attai Chen
Sofia Contay
Susann Craig
Douglas Dawson
Trine Ellitgaard
Terry Griffin
Hirondelle
Anne
Michael Kreis
Matt Lambert
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Peter Landon
Cheryl Lavers
Keith Lewis
Deborah Lovely
Pasha Moezzi
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Alexis Myer
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Nordtvedt
Leslie
Peter Olsen
Michael Olszewski
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Karen Patinkin
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Maria Phillips
Mija Riedel
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Biba Schutz
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Doug Stapleton
Saiko Terahara
Kiff Slemmons
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C. Thresher
Terry Turrell
Vadenbrink
Catherine
Patrick Wilkins
