Deep Storage: The Arsenal of Memory
New Works Laboratory: A Partnership Between 911 Media Arts Center and the Henry Art Gallery
Jacob Lawrence: Painting LifeJohn Marshall: Point of View
Media Gallery
May 20, 1998 – July 7, 1998
This exhibition of works by John Marshall included silver sculptures and utilitarian forms such as bottles, chalices and bowls. The exhibition featured a number of pieces that incorporated precious stones, playing the shape, color and translucency of the stones off of the rich, reflective surfaces and solid masses of the silver. Marshall is known for his mastery of the Japanese technique of mokume-gane in which silver is inlaid with a dense skein of copper. The patterns achieved with this technique resemble moiré or marble surfaces. Marshall uses these surfaces to energize the sculptural presence of his forms.