User:Cvmelcher/Linda Threadgill

Lead
Her metal work is inspired by forms of nature and the interpretations she gleans from the intricate patterns it presents. She explores the foundation of nature to allude to nature and transform it into re-imagined, stylized plants forms.

Career or Early Life and Education (additions)
A turning point in her career was taking machining class early on. From this class she learned how to create her own tool and the freedom that accompanies her with that understanding. Making her own tools, allowed for her to instigate new crafting processes without predetermined tool uses and limitations.

Technique
After retiring from teaching, she set off for an escape in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with her husband Jim, a woodworker, to immerse herself in an inspiring, nature-filled atmosphere, complimentary to her creative preferences. As a woodworker, Jim crafts custom tools and equipment she may need for her projects, creating a collaboration of crafts between the pair.

Threadgill uses references like her imaginary botanical images and historical pieces decorating her home. Her work includes many wax mold-made, repetitive shapes of bronze, silver, or precious metal clay. She chooses to work in series and will have a vast number of projects going on at one time in diverse developmental stages. She does not choose sizes of her work consistently and, as a result, her methods vary from project to project. Her brass and bronze metals may get as larger as 1/4 an inch thick. To ensure these precise cuts and sizes, she will borrow from local resources like the usage of a water jet in Albuquerque.

In 2018, she was nominated for the National Museum of Women in the Arts' Women to Watch: 2018 exhibition as a New Mexico representative.

She uses a variety of metals that range in size.

Published Work
(2015) Linda Threadgill: Cultivating Ornament

Collections
Threadgill's works are notably part of the permanent collections of the Swiss National Museum, Alice and Louis Koch Ring Collection, The Royal College of Art Collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, National Ornamental Metal Museum, The Museum of Arts and Design, Racine Art Museum, MOWA Museum of Wisconsin Art, Tyler School of Art, Switzer Center for the Visual Arts.

Solo & Small Group Exhibitions
(2011) Linda Threadgill: Cultivating Ornament. Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(2005) Two Person Metals Invitational Exhibition. Montgomery College Arts Institute, Rockville, Maryland.

(2000) Solo Exhibition, Recent Works. Mobilia Gallery. Cambridge, Massachusetts.

(1992) Solo Exhibition. Maralyn Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama.

(1992) Solo Exhibition. Wellington B. Gray Art Gallery, Jenkins Fine Arts Center, Greenville, North Carolina.

(1988) Solo Exhibition. Garth Clark CDK Gallery, New York, New York, and Los Angeles, CA

(1988) Solo Exhibition. Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois.

(1987) Solo Exhibition. Swan Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(1987) Solo Exhibition. Northlight Gallery, School of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.

(1987) Solo Exhibition. Recent Jewelry, The Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona.

(1985) Solo Exhibition. Emily Edwards Gallery, Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas.

(1984) Solo Exhibition of Sculpture. Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin.

General Exhibitions
2019: Crafting Legacy. Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.

2019: Mastery in Jewelry and Metals: Irresistible Offerings. Gallery 2052, Chicago, Illinois.

2019: Objects Redux: Clay, Glass and Metal. Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin.

2018: Inhorgenta. Munich, Germany.

2018: Artistar 2018. Palazzo dei Giureconsulti, Milan, Italy.

2017: Madrid Joya. Madrid, Spain.

2017: Joya Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.

2017: Espaijoia. Barcelona, Spain.

2017: Occasion Spéciale. Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2017: 4000 Years of Jewelry Design. Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2016: Precious Metals: Shining Examples From RAM’s Collection. Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin.

2016: An Exuberance of Color In Studio Jewelry. Tansey Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2016: Charlotte Contemporary. Charlotte, North Carolina

2016: Go For Baroque. Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin.

2016: Contemporary American Metalsmiths. Daegu Catholic University, Daegu, South Korea. Digital  presentation by Komelia Okim

2015: металлические украшения (Metal Jewelry), Linda Threadgill, Online Exhibition, Moscow, Russia.

2015: A Journey Through Time: Explorations of Artful Adornment and Sculptural Vessels Through the Ages. Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2014: Digital Hand. Kent State University, Kent, Ohio.

2013: Objects of Status, Power and Adornment II. Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2013: BIJIOUX! 2013, Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, Florida.

2012: Contemporary Visions of the Necklace. Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2012: Art of the Ring. Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2012: The Teapot Redefined. Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

2012: The Nature of Things. Metalsmith Magazine, curated by Marilyn da Silva.

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