Biographical Information for Jana Brevick:

Residence: Washington

Education

1999 BFA Metal Design, University of Washington
1995 BA Apparel Design, Western Washington University

Workshops

2007 Maker Faire, San Mateo, California
2004-05 VAIN Free-Thinking Residency, Seattle, October-January
2004 Contact Conference, Karl Fritch (Germany), Wax Casting, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, June 13-18
2003 EDGE Program, Professional Artist Practices, Artist Trust, Seattle, October-December
2003 Assistant to Douglas Harling, Granulation, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle
2002 Assistant to Douglas Harling, Beyond the Band Ring, Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina
2001 Manfred Bischoff (Germany); Lost Object, Hidden Jewel; Alchimia School; Florence, Italy
2000 Assistant to Lori Talcott; Ancient Techniques, Filigree and Engraving; Penland School of Crafts, North Carolina

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Thanks, Wavelength, SOIL Backspace Gallery, Seattle
2006 Control Panel, SOIL Gallery, September
2005 Remote Control, Backspace Gallery, Seattle, April 1-30

Invitational Exhibitions

2008
-SOIL @ Aqua Art, Art Basel South Beach, Miami, Florida
-The Surrealist Impulse: Recent Acquisitions from the Tacoma Art Museum Collection, Sept-May 2009
-SOIL @ SOIL, SOIL Gallery, October member's show

2006
-SOIL @ Aqua Art, Art Basel South Beach, Miami, Florida
-The Progressives, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, October 11-November 1. Curator. Exhibition in response to essay by Bruce Metcalf in Metalsmith Magazine, Summer 2004: Is There a Jewelry Avant-Garde?
-200 Rings, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, January 25- February 15

2005
-SOIL Gallery: 10 Year, All Member Retrospective, October 1-30, SOIL Gallery
-Cocktails at Five, collaboration with glass artist Kait Rhoads, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, October 5-25 then traveling to Sculpture to Wear, Santa Monica, CA for December
-200 Rings, Obsidian Gallery, Tucson, AZ, Curator: Robert Ebendorf & Elizabeth Shypertt and Mike Holmes, then on to Cleveland at Gallery M, June 20- July 10, and then to Shaw Gallery, October
-Signs of Life, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, June 16 -July 5, literary journal /show catalogue and participant in lecture
-Sienna Gallery Editions, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, Massachusetts, June 10 - December
-Beyond the Body: Northwest Jewelers at Play, Tacoma Art Museum, Curator: Rock Hushka, May14 -September 11, 2005
-Fifth Anniversary Show, Sculpture to Wear, Santa Monica, California, March

2004
-200 Rings, Velvet da Vinci, Curator: Robert Ebendorf & Elizabeth Shypertt and Mike Holmes, November - December 31, then travelling
-Element 79, Contemporary Gold Show, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, May

2003
-YSA Exhibition, Howard House, Seattle, December -January
-The Ring, Traveling Exhibition; Ruthin Craft Centre, Denbigshire, Wales, April-May; Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December; end of traveling exhibition
-Translucent/Transparent, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, June, Seattle (collaboration with Cappy Thompson)
-Unemployment Benefits, Temporary Cathexis Gallery (now Priceless Works Gallery), Seattle, April, curator: Ragan Peck
-New Members Show, Soil Gallery, Seattle, March
-Art of Gold, Traveling Exhibition; Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California, January-May; Spenser Museum, Lawrence, Kansas, November-January 2004; then on to three more locations

2002
-Exquisite Corpse, Collaborative Sculpture, Drawing and Painting Show, Bumbershoot, Labor Day, Seattle, curator: Marian Peck
-Round, Soil Gallery, July, Seattle, curator: Monica Miller
-The Ring, Traveling Exhibition; Denver, Colorado, May-July

2001
-The Ring, Traveling Exhibition; Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, February-April; Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI, September-November

2000
-Glass/Metal Connections, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, October; collaboration with Cappy Thompson
-Under the Influence, Northwest Jewelry and Ethnographic Objects, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, September-January, 2001; curator: Mia McEldowney
-Drawing the Lines, Society of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Boston, MA, March; curator: Gail M. Brown
-Exhibition in Motion, Runway Jewelry Exhibition, Society of North American Goldsmiths (SNAG) Boston, MA, March
-New Kids on the Block, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, February; Gave artist lecture at opening

Juried Exhibitions

2005
-SOIL Retrospective:10 Years, SOIL Gallery, October

2004
-Exhibition in Print, Metalsmith Magazine, August

2003
-Evocative Objects, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island, November; curator: Sondra Sherman
-Fashion is Art, Runway Performance, Bumbershoot Exhibition and Storefront Exhibition, Seattle, September-October; curators: Rhonda Howard and Rebecca Richards of Thread for Art
-Glass Dimensions…Beyond the Bead, Seattle Convention Center, April-July; jurors: Mary Lee Hu, Richard Marquis and Vicki Halper

2002
-Display Use Only, Kirkland Arts Center, Kirkland, Washington, July-August; curator: Susan Myers

2001
-SCHMUCK 2001, Handwerksmesse, Munich, Germany, March; juror: Frau Dr. Luckner-Bien of the Hochschule für Kunst and Gestaltung, Halle, Germany

2001
-Avant Garde Jewelry, Wilhelm-Wagenfeld-Haus, Bremen, Germany, April-August; Schmuck 2001 traveling exhibition under different name

2000
-Attitude and Action! North American Figurative Jewelry, The Atrium Gallery, University of Central England, Birmingham, England, July-August; traveled to Dublin, Ireland
-New Metal, Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon, January-February

1999
-Jewelry and Metal Arts Show, Regional Student Show, Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, April
-Juried Undergraduate Show, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, February

1998
-Lamda Rho Juried Student Show, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, U of W, Seattle, November-December
-Understanding Lesbian Perspectives, Best of Show, U of W Ceramic and Metal Arts Gallery, April; juror: Jenny Sabin
-SNAG Juried Student Show, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, U of W, March; jurors: Candace Beardslee, Keith Lewis and Micki Lippe

Group Exhibitions

2005
-Obsession, Thread for Art, ThreadShop, Seattle, April - May

2004
-Seattle Metals Guild Biennial Show, Seattle Convention Center, October 8- January 15, 2005
-Flashpoint, Members Show, SOIL Gallery, Seattle, February

2003
-Holiday Modern Artist Show, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, December
-Gallery of Collections and Creations, Soil Co-op Members showing their collections and what they create, Bumbershoot, Labor Day; curator: Randy Wood
-Tiny Universe, Soil Members Show, Soil Gallery, Seattle, November; co-curators: Randy Wood and myself

2000
-Seattle Metals Guild Biennial Exhibition, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, October-January 2001

1999
-Holiday Modern Artist Show, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, December
BFA Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, U of W, Seattle, May

1998
-Holiday Modern Artist Show, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle, December
-Seattle Metals Guild Biennial Exhibition, Seattle Convention Center, March-June

1996
-Fashion Show for Insectivores, Bellingham Bay Brewery, Bellingham, WA, September

1995
-Fin de Cicle Circus Extravanganza, Fashion Show and Production, Show Off Gallery, Bellingham, WA, July

1994
-Fibers Show, Viking Union Gallery, Western Washington University, September

1993
-Aspirations, BA Fashion Show, WWU Solarium, Bellingham, WA, June
-SNAP ART, Jewelry and Fashion Show, Viking Union, WWU, Bellingham, WA, March

Curatorial Experience

-The Progressives, Facere Jewelry Art gallery, October 2006
-Control Panel, SOIL Art Gallery, September 2006
-SOIL Annual Auction, September 30, 2005
-Remote Control, Backspace Gallery, April 2005
-Tiny Universe, SOIL Gallery, November 2003

Publications and Reviews

-Kurtz, Katie. Craft: transforming traditional craft, Vol. 06, Handmade Section, p. 12. O'Reilly Publications, 2008.
-Updike, Robin. Jana Brevick: A Slyly Subversive Artist. Ornament Magazine, Winter, Vol. 29, no. 2. pp. 48-51.
-Art to Go, Susan Phinney, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Thursday, December 15, 2005
-Review: Hackett, Regina. SOIL Retrospective Show. Post-Intelligencer, Friday, October 28, 2005
-SOIL: A Seattle Artist' Run Gallery, book compiled by SOIL members of past exhibitions, current and past members with images and timeline.
-Signs of Life, catalogue and literary journal--artist images sent to authors who then bounced off the image for their written entry. Vol.1, 2005. Image p 10.
-Review: Hackett, Regina. Surveilance, SOIL members exhibition. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 2005
-Metcalf, Bruce. Is There a Jewelry Avant-garde? Essay and image of The Everchanging Ring, Metalsmith Magazine, Summer 2004, vol. 24, number 3. pp.14-15.
Exhibition in Print, Metalsmith Magazine, August 2004
-1000 Rings, Published by Lark Books, 2004, curator: Robert Ebendorf
-evocative objects: Studio Metalsmithing and Jewelry, catalogue for exhibition, Bannister Gallery and Rhode Island College Press
-Art Jewelry Today, Dona Meilach, Shiffer Press, 2003
-Hall, Emily, In Art News, The Stranger, March 6, 2003, page 26.
-Fahey, Anna, Fashion is Art, catalogue, 2003, page 13.
-Kangas, Matthew, Review, Display Use Only, Metalsmith, Spring 2003, vol. 23, num. 2, page 48.
-Metcalf, Bruce. Art of Gold, exhibition catalogue, Society of North American Goldsmiths, 2003, page 34.
-Schmuck 2001, exhibition catalogue for Munich, Germany, Edition Handwerk, 2001, pages 32-33