Tina Rath received her MFA from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and her BFA from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited internationally including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine and is included in the permanent collections of the Mint Museum in Charlotte, NC and the Museum of Art and Design in New York, NY as well as in many private collections. Her work can also be seen in numerous magazines and books. Rath's work has been supported by grants from the Maine Arts Commission. From 2002-2010, Rath was a professor at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine and was the Chair of the Department of Metalsmithing and Jewelry from 2006-2009. Rath currently holds a faculty appointment at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon and lives in Northern California.
Out on a Limb: Contemporary Wood Jewelry
Racine Art Museum
February 26-June 17, 2012
Out on a Limb features the work of emerging and established artists that use wood as the primary medium for jewelry and adornment. Long utilized in objects of wear, wood immediately connects the body to the natural landscape while simultaneously offering compelling color, pattern and texture or a pliable surface to manipulate. Those whose works are featured in this exhibition are drawn to the material for both conceptual and aesthetic reasons. Whether carving, painting, appropriating, or otherwise manipulating, they stretch the boundaries of how we understand a familiar material.
Artists whose works are featured include: Michael Dale Bernard, Liv Blavarp, Christine Brandt, Gillion Carrara, Sharon Church, Daniel DiCaprio, Julia Harrison, Bruce Metcalf, Edgar Mosa, Tina Rath, Gustav Reyes, Julia Turner, Flora Vagi, and Julia Walter.
Racine Art Museum
February 26-June 17, 2012
Out on a Limb features the work of emerging and established artists that use wood as the primary medium for jewelry and adornment. Long utilized in objects of wear, wood immediately connects the body to the natural landscape while simultaneously offering compelling color, pattern and texture or a pliable surface to manipulate. Those whose works are featured in this exhibition are drawn to the material for both conceptual and aesthetic reasons. Whether carving, painting, appropriating, or otherwise manipulating, they stretch the boundaries of how we understand a familiar material.
Artists whose works are featured include: Michael Dale Bernard, Liv Blavarp, Christine Brandt, Gillion Carrara, Sharon Church, Daniel DiCaprio, Julia Harrison, Bruce Metcalf, Edgar Mosa, Tina Rath, Gustav Reyes, Julia Turner, Flora Vagi, and Julia Walter.
Geography
SOFA Chicago November 4-6 2011
presented by the Art Jewelry Forum
catalog available at Geography Catalog
The science of geography seeks to provide a unified view of the natural world (physical geography) and the relationship between humans and the landscape (cultural geography). Taking geography as its theme, this exhibition, curated by Susan Cummins and Mike Holmes and organized by the Art Jewelry Forum, demonstrates the global nature of the contemporary jewelry field and the diverse ways that jewelers react to their environment. The exhibition is a celebration of the amazing variety of the natural world and humanity’s part in it, and a demonstration of the unusual ability that jewelry has to identify culture and place in a rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected world. This is Geography.
SOFA Chicago November 4-6 2011
presented by the Art Jewelry Forum
catalog available at Geography Catalog
The science of geography seeks to provide a unified view of the natural world (physical geography) and the relationship between humans and the landscape (cultural geography). Taking geography as its theme, this exhibition, curated by Susan Cummins and Mike Holmes and organized by the Art Jewelry Forum, demonstrates the global nature of the contemporary jewelry field and the diverse ways that jewelers react to their environment. The exhibition is a celebration of the amazing variety of the natural world and humanity’s part in it, and a demonstration of the unusual ability that jewelry has to identify culture and place in a rapidly changing and increasingly interconnected world. This is Geography.
Art of Adornment: Studio Jewelry
June 19 - September 18, 2011
The Hunterdon Art Museum Clinton, NJ
Art of Adornment: Studio Jewelry features the work of thirteen artists who create jewelry that is part of an ongoing trend to marry precious with non-precious materials. Merging the timeless with the fleeting, the precious with the ordinary, their work combines gems and metals with materials found in nature, the environment and industry.
Formally trained in design and fabrication, the artists in this exhibition are grounded in the history of jewelry and its purposes. Their work represents their individual searches for an aesthetic that speaks to their chosen materials and craftsmanship.
June 19 - September 18, 2011
The Hunterdon Art Museum Clinton, NJ
Art of Adornment: Studio Jewelry features the work of thirteen artists who create jewelry that is part of an ongoing trend to marry precious with non-precious materials. Merging the timeless with the fleeting, the precious with the ordinary, their work combines gems and metals with materials found in nature, the environment and industry.
Formally trained in design and fabrication, the artists in this exhibition are grounded in the history of jewelry and its purposes. Their work represents their individual searches for an aesthetic that speaks to their chosen materials and craftsmanship.
Wanderlux
SOFA NY at the Park Avenue Armory
Opening Night: Thursday, April 15, 2010 5-9pm
Exhibition: April 15 - April 19, 2010
"To wander is to move in a leisurely, casual or even aimless way."
After one year in the making, Tina Rath's first jewelry installation, Wanderlux, will be presented by Sienna Gallery at SOFA NY. First presented in it's Phase One incarnation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, the final phase of Wanderlux responds to Rath's love of mushroom and lichen forms transforming the gallery space into a micro forest offering a biologically dazzling landscape for the mind.
"The tiniest forms catch my eye and hold clues to the larger world, to myself, bridging the space between the external universe and the internal universe."
Spanning 10' x 4' and rising 10' from the floor, Wanderlux uses Rath's trademark luxurious and sensuously rich materials such as ivory, sterling silver, fur, smoky quartz, gold, silk and african blackwood, to cultivate curiosity and draw one's attention in. Wanderlux invites the viewer to slow down and wander, to pause even, to discover the smallest forms and hidden gems.
"Taking the time and space to really experience the smallest nuance of form, structure and composition tells me so much, opening the door for me to recognize the smallest and most nuanced places in myself."
For more information about SOFA NY: www.sofaexpo.com
SOFA NY at the Park Avenue Armory
Opening Night: Thursday, April 15, 2010 5-9pm
Exhibition: April 15 - April 19, 2010
"To wander is to move in a leisurely, casual or even aimless way."
After one year in the making, Tina Rath's first jewelry installation, Wanderlux, will be presented by Sienna Gallery at SOFA NY. First presented in it's Phase One incarnation at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Portland, Maine, the final phase of Wanderlux responds to Rath's love of mushroom and lichen forms transforming the gallery space into a micro forest offering a biologically dazzling landscape for the mind.
"The tiniest forms catch my eye and hold clues to the larger world, to myself, bridging the space between the external universe and the internal universe."
Spanning 10' x 4' and rising 10' from the floor, Wanderlux uses Rath's trademark luxurious and sensuously rich materials such as ivory, sterling silver, fur, smoky quartz, gold, silk and african blackwood, to cultivate curiosity and draw one's attention in. Wanderlux invites the viewer to slow down and wander, to pause even, to discover the smallest forms and hidden gems.
"Taking the time and space to really experience the smallest nuance of form, structure and composition tells me so much, opening the door for me to recognize the smallest and most nuanced places in myself."
For more information about SOFA NY: www.sofaexpo.com
The Stimulus Project
Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusettes
Begins June 26 Online July 1 at www.siennagallery.com
80 artists make one of a kind work for under $500.00
Body/Image
Richmond Center for Visual Arts at Western Michigan University
October 15 - November 13, 2009
Curated by Donald Desmett
Participating artists include: Sandra Enterline, Yevgenia Kaganovich, Suska Mackert, Ruudt Peters, Maria Phillips and Tina Rath
Catalog will be available
Archeology Above Ground
Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine
November 18 - December 20, 2009
Opening is December 4, 2009 First Friday 5-8pm
Participating artists include: Matt Hutton, Meg Brown Payson, Tina Rath and Peter Schellenberger
Catalog available
Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusettes
Begins June 26 Online July 1 at www.siennagallery.com
80 artists make one of a kind work for under $500.00
Body/Image
Richmond Center for Visual Arts at Western Michigan University
October 15 - November 13, 2009
Curated by Donald Desmett
Participating artists include: Sandra Enterline, Yevgenia Kaganovich, Suska Mackert, Ruudt Peters, Maria Phillips and Tina Rath
Catalog will be available
Archeology Above Ground
Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine
November 18 - December 20, 2009
Opening is December 4, 2009 First Friday 5-8pm
Participating artists include: Matt Hutton, Meg Brown Payson, Tina Rath and Peter Schellenberger
Catalog available
