AUDREY ARONSON
Metalsmith
Audrey Aronson is a jewelry artist from the United States. She graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a BFA in 3D Studio Art with a double major in Art History and received her MFA in jewelry and metalsmithing from Bowling Green State University. Her work has been recently shown at the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art in South Korea, during 2022 Romanian Jewelry week, and at the Best of 2023, Ohio Designer Craftsman traveling exhibition at the Ohio Craft Museum.
This current body of work examines the idea of being self-protective to one’s own detriment. This work shows the dualities of protection and restraint and how these things relate to a desire to shed restrictions. Thinly networked glass indicates a personal fragility when combined with objects typically worn on the body, whereas the spalted wood shows a physical manifestation of boundaries and restriction. In defiance of the constant appearance of self-control, this body of work consistently displays an emergence of growth and self-expression.
