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The most exciting thing that draws me to create jewelry is its small scale. Shift of scale, and miniaturization in particular, paradoxically reverses our associations with familiar forms. I enjoy finding and in return asking the audience to find and explore all those little secrets and paradoxes that shed light on our larger cultural contradictions through tactile engagement with a piece of jewelry. The structural complexity and microcosm quality of each piece invites the wearer to almost imagine themselves smaller, in order to experience every nuance as fantastic but tangible, artificial yet somehow natural, aggressive yet sensual, simple yet infinite, beautiful but horrific at once.
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1977. Living and working in the USA since 1992.
Received MFA from SUNY New Paltz, USA and BFA from Parsons School of Design, USA.
Taught metalsmithing at SUNY New Paltz and New Jersey City University.
Honors include: Herbert Hoffman Preis, (Germany), New York Foundation for the Arts Individual Artist’s Fellowship (US), Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist Award (US), and Silvermine Guild Board of Trustees Award (US).
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