Allison Geremia
Allison Geremia is a current professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts and also a practicing jeweler. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Plymouth through Transart Institute. Her dissertation examined contemporary jewelry of the United States and its sociological implications. She received her Masters at Parsons in the History of Decorative Arts and Design at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.
Practice includes:
Metalworking, silversmithing, small-scale casting, vitreous enamelwork, jewelry, sculpture, tool making, manufacturing and inspection, glasswork, craft, embroidery, glass cutting and slumping, carpentry.
Practice Statement
I work in a jewelry format in order to construct and deconstruct social narrative. Throughout my PhD and into the present, my work has interrogated the ways in which jewelry delineates social behaviors. I especially focus on the notion of projection and the exchanges that happen between the maker, wearer, viewer, and object.
My most current body of work looks at the notion of the classical female form and aims to challenge established voices within the art historical canon. I use jewelry as an especially charged object that relates to and subverts the concept of 'the feminine'.
Related research & practice areas:
art and social technologies;
expanded studio practices;
fashion and textiles;
memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive;
Traditional arts and contemporary interpretations