2007 Sienna Gallery ea recipient The Sienna Gallery Emerging Artist Award is given
bi-annually to an emerging artist showing
merit, skill, and innovation in their work.
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"The work in Blind Spot is lush and austere, ornamental and minimal, restrained and exuberant, historically resonant and absolutely current, engaging and exclusory, accessible and intellectually challenging, self-conscious and inevitable. These tensions are in no way accidental. They function as complements that trigger consideration and reflection, even as the objects themselves enchant and gratify. They are in fact, structural artifacts of a restless intellectual inquiry that embraces scholarly research as both methodology and subject, synthesizing new ideas out of traditional forms of adornment."
Kate Wagle, from excerpt of essay, Anya Kivarkis: Blind Spot, 2007
"The work in Blind Spot examines vision, and manipulates how we are directed to see luxury goods in contemporary visual culture. Through strategies of obstruction, camouflage, simulation, and illusion, the work challenges excess as it hovers in a state that is simultaneously present and absent, excessive and blank, artificial and real. It seeks to subvert how jewelry operates as a signifier of access to luxury, as excessive embellishment has historically signaled wealth and civility. The work is a disruption of how we are conventionally delivered images of luxury, and moves from the immediate frontal nature of image culture to an object-based, experiential discovery."
Anya Kivarkis, 2007
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Gilles Legare sketch, c. 1640
brooch
Fine and sterling silver, 14K palladium white gold, enamel auto paint
1 3/4” x 1 5/8” x 1/4”
Marcus Gunter sketch, c.1711
brooch
Fine and sterling silver, 14K Palladium white gold, enamel auto paint
3 1/4” x 2 1/8” x 3/8”
Untitled Brooch #1 from the Blind Spot series
Sterling silver, 14K palladium white gold, enamel auto paint
3 1/4" x 1 1/2" x 1"
detail
Untitled Brooch #2 from the Blind Spot series
Sterling silver, enamel auto paint
4 1/4" x 2" x 1 1/8"
detail
Untitled Brooch #3 from the Blind Spot series
Fine and Sterling silver, blue spinels, enamel auto paint
4 1/4" x 1 3/4" x 3/4"
detail
Untitled Brooch, c. 1890
Sterling silver, nickel silver
4 1/4” x 1 3/4” x 7/8”
detail
Untitled Brooch #4 from the Blind Spot series
Fine and sterling silver, palladium white gold, blue spinels,
enamel auto paint
3” x 2 5/8” x 5/8”
detail
Penelope Cruz Earrings, 2007 Academy Awards
Sterling silver, 14K Palladium white gold
1 1/4” x 1 1/4” x 3/4” and 1 1/4” x 1 1/4” x 1/2”
