Susie Ganch
Single Row Beaded Brooch, reused pill bottle cap, cotton thread, plastic beads, steel pin back, approximately 2" around, $120
Double Row Beaded Brooch, reused pill bottle cap, cotton thread, plastic beads, steel pin back, approximately 2" around, $135
Double Row Beaded Brooch, reused pill bottle cap, cotton thread, plastic beads, steel pin back, approximately 2" around, $135
Single Row Beaded Brooch, reused pill bottle cap, cotton thread, plastic beads, steel pin back, approximately 2" around, $120
Single Row Beaded Brooch, reused pill bottle cap, cotton thread, plastic beads, steel pin back, approximately 2" around, $120
Double Row Beaded Brooch, reused pill bottle cap, cotton thread, plastic beads, steel pin back, approximately 2" around, $135
Single Row Beaded Brooch, reused pill bottle cap, cotton thread, plastic beads, steel pin back, approximately 2" around, $120
Single Row Beaded Brooch, reused pill bottle cap, cotton thread, plastic beads, steel pin back, approximately 2" around, $120
Single Row Beaded Brooch, reused pill bottle cap, cotton thread, plastic beads, steel pin back, approximately 2" around, $120
An overall theme of [my recent work] is the relationship between the corporeal landscape and planetary one. Currently, in order for one (corporeal) to thrive, the other (planetary) has to suffer. Jewelry made from lids collected from my own daily regimen of pill taking (improve corporeal health↑?), are couched with used collected plastics and new glass beads (planetary health ↓). This reflects the complicated navigation of materiality, artistic expression and in the end what it is to live in a dramatically changing 21st century.
Susie Ganch is an artist and educator living in Richmond, Virginia where she is Interim Chair for the Department of Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her MFA from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Part of her practice is Directing Radical Jewelry Makeover, an international jewelry mining and recycling project that continues to travel across the country and abroad. For more information about Radical Jewelry Makeover, please visit their website.
Recent solo exhibitions: Have A Nice Day, Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA, How Soon is Now?, MS State University, TIED, an ArtForum Critics’ pick, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA, Land and Sea, Sienna Patti Contemporary, Lenox, MA. Her work has been included nationally and internationally in museum exhibitions including: Smithsonian National Museum for Women in the Arts, MFA Boston, the Design Museum, London, the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI, Milwaukee Art Museum. Public collections: LACMA, CA, Asheville Art Museum, NC, MFA Boston, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, Metal Museum, Memphis, TN, Quirk Hotel, Richmond, VA. Grants include: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant, Theresa Pollack Fine Art Award, a VA Commission for the Arts Grant, and multiple VCU Faculty Research Grants.