One and Three Collective
One and Three Collective
One and Three is a contemporary jewelry collective whose members examine the authenticity of materials through quiet refinements of process and technique. The resulting works are self-referential manifestations of embodied meanings, working in dialogue individually and with the collective as a whole.
Suyu Chen, Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Kerianne Quick, Lydia Elsa Martin, Joshua Kosker, and Melis Agabigum are the members of One and Three. “Almost Discrete” is a love letter to the transformational quality of material and process. While unique and individual, each artist’s work questions the balance between maintaining and relinquishing control over the impermanence of surface and material. Through dedicated explorations of individual elements, each member offers an insight into quiet and unassuming contemporary art jewelry objects that demand acknowledgment through the intimacy of interaction.
Joshua Kosker
Joshua Kosker is a contemporary jeweler and visual artist living and working in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Drawing from unexpected and often ephemeral materials, his work explores impermanence and counterintuitive methodologies, while examining craft, materiality, and the body. Joshua received his MFA from Bowling Green State University and his BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He exhibits nationally and internationally, with his work recently published in several books including: New Brooches: 400+ Contemporary Jewelry Designs; To the Point: Pin Mechanisms and Brooch Back Design; and Narrative Jewelry: Tales from the Toolbox. Joshua was the recipient of the Ethical Metalsmiths Emerging Artist Award in 2014, and has participated in artist residencies at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and Touchstone Center for Crafts. In addition to his creative practice, he has held teaching appointments at Indiana University-Bloomington, Bowling Green State University, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Currently, Joshua is the Art Shop Supervisor and Area Coordinator of Foundation Art in the Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University, as well as a Lecturer in Digital Fabrication & Design at UW-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts.
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Kerianne Quick
Kerianne Quick is a nationally recognized artist, Associate Professor of Jewelry and Metalwork at San Diego State University, and co-founder of Secret Identity Projects and Craft Desert. Highlights from their exhibition record include Craft in America Gallery (Los Angeles), the Museum of Art and Design (NYC), Museo Franz Mayer (CDMX), the National Museum for Women in the Arts (Washington D.C.), and Salon del Mobile (Milan). Their work is included in the collections of the LACMA, MFA Houston, and the Netherlands Design Museum (Stedelijk) in addition to private collections. They are currently researching migration and the conveyance of objects as it relates to memory, belonging, and longing.
This body of work explores conveyance and value. Inspired by the form languages of luggage and handbags each work is a non-functional carrying case. The objects we choose to keep and keep close tell stories about personal experiences, memories, societal structures, and systems of value.
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Lydia Martin
Lydia Martin is a contemporary jeweler and metalsmith living in Little Rock, AR. Her work, built upon the foundations of technical skill, is an exploration of surface, line, and movement. Through the use of traditional metalsmithing techniques, she creates pieces that become investigations of intentions and consequences. Lydia received an MFA from State University of New York at New Paltz in 2017 and a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is represented by Jewelers’Werk Galerie in Washington, DC. Currently, Lydia is the Visiting Assistant Professor in Metals and Jewelry at UA Little Rock.
Unfinished knots and loops, methods of connection that bind physically and emotionally; these are the foundations in which I think of my jewelry. Rooted in tradition, my jewelry speaks to the intimate and communicative power of jewelry. The body becomes the landscape and location for personal history, the jewelry becomes the history of that landscape.
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Melis Agabigum
Melis Agabigum is an educator and studio artist from Michigan. She received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in Intermedia (Jewelry/Metals, Sculpture, Installation Art, and Fibers), and received her BFA in Art&Design from the University of Michigan. She has taught Jewelry/Metals, Sculpture, and 3D Fabrication courses at the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Boise State University, and San Francisco State University, and Earlham College. She is currently an Assistant Professor and Area Coordinator of Metals/Jewelry in the Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University.
Provoked by an interest in material fiction, Melis’ work examines desire, loss, repetition, and the notion of burden that individuals carry from their relationships. Her soft sculptures explore the unseen tether of the physical and emotional weights that affect individuals in how they perceive their connection to others, their bodies, and space.
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Suyu Chen
Originally from southern China, Suyu Chen is a contemporary jewelry artist based in Rochester, upstate New York, USA. She graduated from the MFA program and currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Suyu holds a BA from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China and has also studied at RISD in the USA and Kunstuniversität Linz in Austria. Her works utilize mixed media such as plastic, fabric, and precious metals. Suyu has exhibited her pieces both locally and internationally, including in Italy, Spain, Finland, the USA, and China.
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Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Yevgeniya Kaganovich is a Belarus born, Milwaukee, Wisconsin based artist, whose hybrid practice encompasses Jewelry and Metalsmithing, sculpture and installation. Yevgeniya has received a Masters of Fine Arts form the State University of New York at New Paltz and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Metal/Jewelry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Yevgeniya has been an active art practitioner since 1992, exhibiting her work nationally and internationally. Her work has received a number of awards and has been published widely. Yevgeniya has worked as a Designer/Goldsmith at Peggie Robinson Designs, Studio of Handcrafted Jewelry in Evanston, Illinois and has taught Metalsmithing at Chicago State University, Chicago, Illinois, and Lill Street Studios, Chicago Illinois. Currently Yevgeniya is a Professor in the Department of Art and Design, Peck School of the Arts, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, heading a thriving Jewelry and Metalsmithing Area with a graduate and undergraduate programs.
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