Curating a Retro-Futuristic Show at MAD
An unconventional jewelry exhibition (March-July 2019) at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in NYC explored the concept of futurism through the lens of internet culture at the turn of the millennium.
Curated by jewelry artist Kellie Riggs 11 JM, Non-Stick Nostalgia: Y2K Retrofuturism in Contemporary Jewelry featured work by 29 international artists and designers intrigued by the friction between digital and analogue expression and the role of jewelry in the formation of individual identity.
Assistant Professor of Jewelry + Metalsmithing Timothy Veske-McMahon, recent grad MJ Tyson MFA 17 JM, Philadelphia-based artist Mallory Weston MFA 13 JM and artist-engineer Alex Ju 16 JM were among the other RISD-related artists invited to show work in the exhibition.
Installation view of Non-Stick Nostalgia: Y2K Retrofuturism in Contemporary Jewelry at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (March 21, 2019 through July 21, 2019). Photo by Jenna Bascom; courtesy the Museum of Arts and Design
