Subtle Set

Gazing Eye Earrings

Kiss Me Brooch

Hand in Hand Necklace

These pieces were made for the Subtle Set Exhibition at Facéré Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA this past August. It was a fun challenge for me to make several pieces of jewelry that all relate to one another. (I worked the romance angle!)

ABeCeDarian

ABeCeDarian opens at Facéré Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA May 18th and will be on view until June 4th. The exhibition features the work of 26 artists each producing a piece that corresponds with a letter of the alphabet.

Facéré produced a book to celebrate the show which features an image of each of the 26 art jewelry items.

My letter was K… for Knees!

If you'll be in Seattle for the 2011 SNAG conference, be sure to stop in and check it out! More info about this exhibition can be found on their website.

Lady Parts Week 10

This is the final week of Lady Parts - the online exhibition (sniff…sniff) Many thanks to Stella Padnos-Shea for this delightful collaboration and for her incredible writing talents.

Week 10

This week's poem:
Real Barbie

Read this week's poem and if you missed any of them, you can catch up on the other nine poems in the exhibit HERE. Thanks to those who've been following along!

Lady Parts Week 9

Week 9

Lady Parts

This week's poem:

Intimate Strangers

"She brings the blizzard inside. Her phone number is the weather phone and she plans her forgetting accordingly."

Read the rest of the poem and reflect on it's corresponding image here.

Lady Parts Week 8

Week 8

Lady Parts

This week's poem:
Mary

"This world is one thorny halo. She pries it with thinned fingers, but the burden keeps her alive."

Read the rest of the poem and see it's corresponding image here.

Lady Parts Week 7

Week 7

Lady Parts

This week's poem:
Swollen

Please stop by to check out this online exhibition, we are very proud of it.

Lady Parts Week 6

Week 6 of our online exhibition

Lady Parts

This week's poem:
Tuesday, Dream Home

If you feel so inclined, Stella and I would love to hear your thoughts!

Lady Parts Week 5

We've reached the half way mark, it is now Week 5 of our online exhibition!

Lady Parts

This week's poem:
Groundswell

(featuring one of my favorite poems that Stella has written and a favorite necklace of mine!)

Please leave us a comment and tell us what you think about this pairing of jewelry and words.

Lady Parts Week 4

Week 4 of our online exhibition:

Lady Parts

This is an on-going collaboration between myself and writer Stella Padnos-Shea. A photo of a piece of my jewelry is paired each week with a poem Stella has written.

This week's poem: Mama

Check it out and tell us what you think about this pairing of images and words!

Lady Parts Week 3

Week 3 of our online exhibition:

Lady Parts

a collaboration between myself and writer Stella Padnos-Shea. A new image of my jewelry is paired each week with a poem Stella has written.

This week's poem: Autopsy of the Wedding Gown

We'd love to hear what you think!

Lady Parts Week 2

Please check out Week 2 of our online exhibition:

Lady Parts

a collaboration between myself and writer Stella Padnos-Shea. A new image of my jewelry is paired each week with a poem Stella has written. It is the "…effort of two women to splay open Barbie’s hypnotic contradictions that have held them in their sway for their lifetimes, and beyond."

We would love for you to stop by the site, and please feel free to leave a comment to let us know what you think!

Your Chance To Be Charming

Just a reminder that the Charmed II is still going strong at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh. Your chance to purchase handmade, one-of-a-kind art jewelry charms (like my Breast Friends Charming Heart Set below) is just a click away… you can purchase directly through their website!

Lady Parts

Today I'm very excited to announce the reveal of a collaboration that has been in the works for some time now. A pairing of poet and artist, word and image…

The Poet: Stella Padnos-Shea, writer from Brooklyn.

The Artwork: yours truly

The Project: Lady Parts

In honor of Barbie's birthday today, our online exhibition opens at 9am with an introductory post about the project. At 10am the first pairing in the exhibition will go live. There will be a new pairing revealed 1x a week for the next ten weeks. I hope you will take a moment to check it out and let us know what you think!

Cross-legged

Cross-legged Brooch

© Margaux Lange 2011
sterling silver, nickel silver, plastic Barbie doll legs, resin.

The knees articulate, so she can do a bit of a can-can routine if desired…

This brooch was completed for the upcoming ABeCeDarian Exhibition at Facéré Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle opening May 18, 2011. The exhibit will be on display during this year's SNAG conference.

Each artist was assigned a letter of the alphabet and asked to create a piece inspired by that letter. My letter was K… for knees! I'm really happy with how this piece turned out. It's sassy, silly, sexy and fun. What do you all think?

Charmed II opens today!

Charmed II at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA opens today and all of the charms from the exhibition are now online and for sale directly through their website.

Psst! one of my charms already sold (yippeeee!) so if you're interested in buying, you better not delay www.contemporarycraft.org

Charmed 2011

I was invited to participate once again in the 2nd annual Charmed Exhibition at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, PA. The exhibit opens Thursday, February 10th and closes on April 1st so if you're in the Pittsburgh area, be sure to go check it out! Other amazing artists who also made charms for this show include:

Bob Ebendorf
Caitie Sellers
Sue Amendolara
Jillian Moore
Lynette Andreasen
Marlene True
Karen Paust
Vina Rust
Sarah Abramson
Adrienne M Grafton
Becky McDonah
Tedd McDonah
Ken Bova
Betty McKim
Renee Zettle-Sterling
Angela Bubash
Gabriel Craig
Susanne Matsche
Dan DiCaprio
Stacy Rodgers

If you would like more information or are interested in purchasing any of my charms, please feel free to contact the SCC for more information:

Society for Contemporary Craft
Sharon Massey - store manager
2100 Smallman Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
412.261.7003 | Mon—Sat, 10 am-5 pm

This Breast Friends Heart Charm Set is perfect to share with your breast-est friend!

Breast Friends Heart Charm Set
© Margaux Lange 2011

Everyone remembers those best friend heart charm sets from childhood… well this unique version was inspired by that idea. It celebrates that one special friend who made growing up playing with Barbie dolls that much more awesome. One for you, one for her!

Stamped into the silver, the back of the charms read:

Bre ast
Fri ends

I'm pretty excited about these! What do you guys think?

Green Eyed Charm
© Margaux Lange 2011

Blue Eyed Charm
© Margaux Lange 2011

Ruby Rhinestone Ring, Hand Charm
© Margaux Lange 2011

Her Charming Smile
© Margaux Lange 2011

When I posted a preview of the charms on my Facebook jewelry page yesterday, a couple of fans suggested I start selling these in my etsy shop as an affordable option for buyers to begin collecting my work. It's an interesting idea… what do you all think? All the charms in this collection range in price from $110 - $220 and each one is entirely hand-made from start to finish (of course.) I'd love to hear your feedback on this.

Renewal Notice Press

Renewal Notice - the exhibition in West Virginia where I have two pieces of jewelry currently on exhibit - has been getting some great press!

American Craft has a blog post and slide show of it on their website…

As does Readymade…

And of course, Extreme Craft has a post up about the show as well (Garth Johnson is the show organizer after all.) About the exhibition, Garth says:

"Last year, I released my first book, 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse, which is a collection of 1000 images of jewelry, clothing, art, design and technological geekery. As a follow-up to the book, I was asked to curate an exhibition based on the book for the American Conservation Film Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia."

This is one of the photos taken at the installation of the show. (You can see my jewelry in the center frame on the back wall if you look close!) If you're near Sheperdstown and you're interested in checking out this exhibition I suggest you hurry up! It closes on November 7th. More info about the show and the film festival here.

Celebrating 70 in Ornament Magazine

There is a fabulous four page spread in the latest issue of Ornament Magazine (volume 33 No. 5) which features an article about Karen Lorene and this past summer's Celebrating 70 Exhibition at Facéré Jewelry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA. A photo of each jewelry piece created by the 70 artists invited to participate in the exhibition (including yours truly) can be seen in the Ornament article. I was thrilled to discover that my piece, Breast to Breast Brooch: Homage to Ruth Handler received special mention closing out the end of the article. It reads:

"Margaux Lange distilled her idea for the year 2002 to seven pink plastic orbs buzzed into what appears to be an abstract brooch. The orbs actually are pink plastic Barbie doll breasts. Breast to Breast: Homage to Ruth Handler, commemorates the extraordinary careers of Ruth Handler (1916 - 2002), the woman who not only invented the Barbie doll, but who, after her own mastectomy, went on to found a company that made prosthetic breasts for cancer survivors. Lange wrote, "Handler made an immeasurable impact on the lives of younger girls and older women. I felt that was worth honoring."

Breast to Breast Brooch: Homage to Ruth Handler
© Margaux Lange 2010. photo by Cole Rodger

page 56

(Click on the images to enlarge)

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Renewal Notice: Creative Reuse in Contemporary Art & Design

Left Open Armlet
© Margaux Lange 2005

Renewal Notice: Creative Reuse in Contemporary Art and Design. An exhibition during this year's American Conservation Film Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia will be opening November 4, 2010 and on view through November 7, 2010. The show will be on display in a beautiful gallery next to film festival headquarters at The National Conservation Training Center.

The exhibition is a collaboration between film festival organizers and the artist, author and well known blogger Garth Johnson of Extreme Craft, who has been busy lecturing around the country with his latest book "1000 Ideas For Creative Reuse" of which I had the great pleasure of getting published in (pages: 114, 115.)


Garth contacted me to see if I would like to be a part of this exhibition and I said sure! I will have two pieces on display, my Left Open Armlet (as seen above) and my Half Moon Hand Necklace on Torque. If you'll be in Shepherdstown, West Virginia Nov. 4th-7th go check it out! For more information visit: The American Conservation Film Festival.

One & Only Exhibition: John Michael Kohler Arts Center

Can you even believe we are this close to the holiday season already? Amazing how time flies. Wasn't it JUST summer, like, a couple of weeks ago?! Crazy.


One & Only: Gifts Made by Hand is an annual exhibition held at the ARTspace Gallery at John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI. The exhibition features the work of 30+ nationally known artists and craftspeople working in a variety of media to create one-of-a-kind works. I was delighted to have been invited to participate in this wonderful holiday exhibition. The show will be on view from October 24, 2010 to January 9, 2011 so if you're in the Sheboygan WI area, go check it out! (ps. I really love pronouncing that out loud: "Sheboygan!")

These new quote bubble pieces are just a few of the works I sent for the exhibit. What's new about these is that the faces are set in profile this time, which I'm rather enjoying composition-wise…

For more information about ARTspace Gallery and the One & Only exhibition visit: www.jmkac.org

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
One & Only: Gifts Made by Hand
October 24, 2010 to January 9, 2011
ARTspace Gallery
725-G Woodlake Road, Kohler, WI
920.452.8602