The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years

This is a white necklace that is curved in the shape of a snake.

This retrospective gathers 40 years of jewelry and sculpture by Robert Ebendorf, a major American artist in metal. Surveying 95 pieces, this exhibition chronicles significant shifts in jewelry during the last half of the 20th century.

Description

Ebendorf uses found materials—crab claws, sea glass, plastic, paper—and recycles industrially produced objects—keys, buttons, beer bottle caps, washers, wire mesh, tubing—to create dynamic, sometimes highly eccentric jewelry. His work counters cultural preconceptions about jewelry as the stuff of costly gemstones and precious metals, and leads to a new definition of this form.

Visiting Information

September 25, 2003 – January 19, 2004
Open Daily, 10:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m
Free Admission

Credit

"The Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty Years" is organized by the Gallery of Art & Design, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C. The exhibition is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, North Carolina Arts Council and the Friends of the Gallery Publication Fund.

Shelby M. and Frederick M. Gans and the James Renwick Alliance support the exhibition's presentation at the Renwick Gallery.

Exhibition Catalogue

An exhibition catalogue with essays by organizing curators Ruth T. Summers and Bruce W. Pepich was published by the Gallery of Art & Design at North Carolina State University.