LYDIA ELSA MARTIN
Cluster Contemporary Jewellery Exhibitor 2022
Soft Oval Puffs 2022 | Hollow form Fabrication
The Weight of a Line Series
Soft Rectangle Puffs 2022 | Hollow form Fabrication
The Weight of a Line Series
Soft Square Puffs 2022 | Hollow form Fabrication
The Weight of a Line Series
Splits of Triangle Puffs 2022 | Hollow form Fabrication
The Weight of a Line Series
Lydia Martin is a contemporary jeweler living, working, and teaching in Little Rock, AR. Her work, built upon the foundations of technical skill, is an exploration of material skill, surface, line, and movement. Through the use of traditional metalsmithing techniques, she creates pieces that become an investigation 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. Lydia has taught at a variety of institutions including Baltimore Jewelry Center, Towson University, and Penland School of Crafts. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is represented by Jewelers’Werk Galerie in Washington, DC. Currently, she teaches at UA Little Rock, heading the jewelry and metalsmithing program.
The Weight of a Line Series
The Weight of a Line Series | Studs | 2022 | Hollow form Fabrication
The Weight of a Line Series | Studs | 2022 | Hollow form Fabrication
My jewelry is a record of intentions and consequences, a history of decisions made during the physical act of making. Each piece becomes a tangible catalogue of actions bearing the marks of their making, seams highlighted or hidden in turn by their color and finish. Distortion reveals the limits of materiality, while skillful reconstruction seeks to make whole what was once fragmented.
