Bryan Parnham
About The Artist
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Bryan Parnham graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2013. He was awarded the Core Fellowship at Penland School of Craft in 2016. Parnham has been a resident artist or lecturer at various universities and institutions across the country. In 2020 As Resident Artist in Cortona, Italy his solo exhibition 'Cos�� Qui, What�s Here' was hung at Museo dell�Accademia Etrusca and again in 2021 at in Athens, Georgia. He was recently featured in the Museum of Art and Design show MAD about Jewelry. Bryan Parnham work is predominantly jewelry, fabricated from sterling silver. Focused on flatness, formalism, and the ontology of images, the pieces use pastiche and trompe l'oeil to insert unengaged imagery into the lives of the jewelry's wearer. These images are produced with photopolymer and electrolytic etching.
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Q&A with the ArtistTell us how your work is made.The images used are sourced from the internet, cell phone pictures, screenshots, thrift store salvage, archives, or shot myself on film. Regardless of origin they are altered and edited digitally and printed as negatives for exposure on photopolymer. Images are electrolytically etched into sheets of silver using cupric nitrate, a safer alternative to caustic acids. The etched plates are used in the fabrication of individual works and finally treated with automotive primer, patina, and lacquer. |