October 2019 / Get It On

Get It On / The UltraModern Necklace

Jurors / Jana Brevick and Maria Phillips
Curator / Jana Brevick

Melis Agabigum, Zahra Almajidi, Zachary Betts, Dana Cassara, Tanya Crane, Gina Denton,Caroline Gore, Rey Hauser, Katie Kameen, Marilyn Koch, Micki Lippe, Zach Mellman-Carsey, Eileen O’Shea, Sara Owens, Nina Raizel-Hartman, Samira Saheli, Jina Seo, Leslie Shershow, Jason Stein, Nicki Sucec, Lori Talcott, Kelly Temple, Julia Turner, Devyn Vasquez, Meg Wachs, Mallory Weston, Renee Zettle-Sterling, Rebecca Zink

October 03 – November 02, 2019
Reception / Thursday, October 03, 6–8pm

Reception / Sunday, October 13, 5–8pm
—after the Seattle Metals Guild Symposium

Get It On invited national artists to submit their take on the contemporary necklace. After sifting through entries that ranged from the simple to the extreme, jurors Maria Phillips and Jana Brevick selected from one to several works from twenty-eight artists from across the United States. 

Unconventional materials, including lead, fake teeth, speakers, repurposed plastics, concrete, hydrographic film, leather gloves and artist-produced microbial cellulose are just a few of the points of inspiration employed by the artists. While using conventional techniques or the materials of traditional contemporary jewelry, these works also push the idea of what is acceptable and normal with scale, content, texture and application.

The interpretation of these ultramodern necklaces taunts the viewer, as part of the understanding lies in wearing the pieces. Because the work, by being hung in a gallery, makes this aspect unobtainable, the imagination is engaged further than when viewing another mode of static art. Get It On is about the intimate tactile relationship between the necklace, the skin that it was designed to be in contact with and the transformation of the wearer once the piece is in place.