Iris Eichenberg / Alberte Tranberg
The Centerpiece / The Blank
August 29 – October 4, 2020
Iris Eichenberg, JIME, 2023
wall piece, steel
38.4 x 52 x 22 " / 97.5 x 132 x 56 cm
(Inv# 8574)
Iris Eichenberg, TOPOANALYSIS / WER BIN ICH, Room For One & Room For Two, 2023
wall object, walnut, earthenware
Left: 20.5 x 10 x 12 " / 52 x 25.5 x 30.5 cm
Right: 10.75 x 11 x 22 " / 27 x 28 x 56 cm
(Inv# 8577)
Iris Eichenberg, TOPOANALYSIS / WER BIN ICH, Room For One & Room For Two, 2023
wall object, walnut, earthenware
Left: 20.5 x 10 x 12 " / 52 x 25.5 x 30.5 cm
Right: 10.75 x 11 x 22 " / 27 x 28 x 56 cm
(Inv# 8577)
Iris Eichenberg, Hügel (Hill), 2022, wall artwork, steel
60 x 40 x 20 " / 152 x 102 x 51 cm
(Inv# 7757)
Iris Eichenberg and Alberte Tranberg, Temple Grandin Lounge Chair and Footrest, 2021, steel, rawhide leather, buckwheat and duck feather stuffing, 37 x 22 x 29 "
(Inv# 7165)
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2021, sculpture, steel, wood, leather, 40.5 x 24.25 x 86 "
(Inv# 7171)
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2021, sculpture, steel, wood, leather, 40.5 x 24.25 x 86 "
(Inv# 7171)
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2020, table object, leather, wood, brass, charcoal, graphite, 32 x 21 x 22"
Sold
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2020, table object, leather, wood, brass, charcoal, graphite, 32 x 21 x 22"
Sold
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2020, table object, leather, wood, brass, charcoal, graphite, 32 x 21 x 22"
Sold
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2020, table object, leather, wood, brass, 21 x 20 x 24 inches
(Inv# 6378)
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2020, table object, leather, wood, brass, 21 x 20 x 24 inches
(Inv# 6378)
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2020, table object, leather, wood, brass, 19 x 16 x 18 inches,
(Inv# 6380)
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2020, table object, leather, wood, brass, 19 x 16 x 18 inches,
(Inv# 6380)
Iris Eichenberg, Centerpiece, 2020, table object, leather, wood, brass, 19 x 16 x 18 inches,
(Inv# 6380)
Strange Birds, 2013, created and collected objects on table.
taxidermy, iron, electroformed copper, gold plate, globe, nest, paper, glass mirrors, mdf, paint, 96 x 24.5 x 33.5" table dimensions.
A tour-de-force of wearable and non-wearable objects- riveting, enigmatic and altogether incredible. Cindi Strauss, MFA Houston
Blind, 2013, wall piece: mirrored glass, steel, aluminum
52x28" each piece. ca. 1.5" off of the wall.
From the Series X, 2013, small sculptures on disc: steel, wood, leather (includes wall mount)
wood: 8.5 x 8 x 5.75", leather: 8.5 x 8 x 6.5, steel disc 27" diameter
From the Series X, 2013, small sculptures on disc: steel, electroformed pure iron, leather, disc-includes wall mount
leather: 6 x 6.75 x 8.5 & 6.5 x 7 x 6.75", iron: 8 x 4.5 x 3.25", steel disc: 27" diameter
From the Series X, 2013, small sculptures on disc: leather, wood, iron nails, steel disc -includes wall mount
6.75 x 7 x 7.25 & 4.25 x 3.75 x 6.25", disc: 27"
From the Series X, 2013, Small sculpture on disc: wood, nails, 27" steel disc with wall mount
11 x 7.5 x 5.5", disc: 27" diameter
From the Series X, 2013, necklaces, wood, iron/ copper nails, copper chain
left: sold, right: 3 x 3 x 64.5"
From the Series X, 2013, small sculptures on disc: wood, nails, 18" steel disc with wall mount
2.25 x 2.2 x 3.75" / each piece
From the Seris X, 2013: Necklace and Object with Disc- steel, electroformed pure iron
Object: 5 x 3 x 10.5" / Pendant 4 x 2.75 x 2.5", length variable
Hearts, 1999, porcelain, 9.5 x 8 x 6"
From the Series X, 2013, necklaces, silver, mirrored plexiglass, wood, nails, nickel
rear: sold, front: 9.75 X 10 X 3", chain 80" (wearable length variable)
German-born artist Iris Eichenberg received her training as a jewelry artist at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After her graduation−with a series of work for which she was awarded the Gerrit Rietveld Prize 1994, she taught in the jewelry department for several years, to become Head of Department in 2000. In 2007, she additionally accepted a position as Artist-in-Residence/Head of the Metals Department at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and moved permanently to the US a year later. Eichenberg has been leading the Metals Department at CAA into new directions, turning it into a research lab where students learn to give expression to their ideas through the rigorous exploration of a wide range of materials and techniques.
Eichenberg’s own work, extending from directly body-related objects and jewelry to multiples, serial work, and installations, has been shown worldwide, at, among others, Ornamentum Gallery, Hudson, NY, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Gallery Louise Smit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Design Miami, SOFA Chicago, Sungkok Art Museum Seoul, Korea, Coda Museum, Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
Her work has been purchased by, and been added to the collections of, among others, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC, and the Rotasa Foundation, Mill Valley, CA.
An extraordinary ambassador of her field and its innovation, Eichenberg travels the world giving lectures on her work, and has taught workshops at renowned art schools and programs, such as Konstfack in Stockholm, Sweden, the Hong Kong Institute of Vocation Education, and the Hiko Mizuno College in Tokyo, Japan.
Not necessarily beautiful ornaments, Eichenberg’s works present a unique mode of occasionally disconcerting beauty. Mixing high-tech procedures with traditional forms of craft, some series explore the interdependence of the senses, blurring the boundaries between body and adornment, to foreground the object as experience. Others use archetypical objects and familiar forms, to give expression to the most profound and intense feelings.
San Francisco Museum of Craft & Design
June 25 - October 30, 2022
We are thrilled to announce the opening of Ornamentum artist Iris Eichenberg's survey exhibition this week, with further exhibition venues to be announced in the future.
Iris Eichenberg: Bend
November 23, 2014 – January 25, 2015
Bend is a solo exhibition by contemporary jewelry artist Iris Eichenberg, Artist-in-Residence and Head of the Metalsmithing Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art. As a point of departure, Eichenberg revisited her artistic practice; the result is an unconventional retrospective of her 25-year career told through a body of new work. Decades in the making, this exhibition is an introspective look at the alchemic process of creation and the artist’s life-long research into the behavior of materials.
Work from the permanent collection of the Stedlijk Museum including Ornamentum artists Iris Eichenberg, Ruudt Peters, Gerd Rothmann and Tarja Tuupanen on exhibition.
Pictured: exhibition view including Passio Senouda by Ruudt Peters. Two of these works were created, one is in the Stedelijk Collection, one is at Ornamentum.
