Potential Space: new works by Rebekah Frank
Potential Space: new works by Rebekah Frank is the culmination of a one-month Mid-Career Professional residency at the BJC. The work created during the residency is an exploration of graduated chain as a building block to create volumetric forms.The chain creates collapsible shapes, which are flexible and changeable as they are worn. The structures are minimal, spacious, without complexity. Despite the geometry and material, they are not hard pieces. Softness enters the pieces as they drape and conform to the environment they interact with, the gentle pull of gravity, the planar surfaces of a table, the curves of the body. There is a delicacy in the line and in the structure, but these flexible perimeters create their own spaces, capturing a moment within their curves and edges. These potential spaces are a place for further investigation.
Rebekah Frank received her Master of Fine Arts in Jewelry/Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2012 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Jewelry/Metalsmithing from Texas State University in 2010. Her chosen material is steel, a fascination discovered through a challenge received when she was 18, and her creative practice has focused on that material ever since, working as a blacksmith, a welder, a machinist, and, currently, a jeweler.
The exhibition was on view April 5 - April 30, 2021
