Alli Geremia
she/her
Savannah, GA, USA
Alli Geremia is an artist, educator, and metalsmith living in Savannah, GA. Her studio practice and research concerns the social nature of contemporary narrative jewelry.
“My work is large-scale non-traditional jewelry inspired by our expectations of the social usage of jewelry. I like to refer to my work as reflexive jewelry, as it often refers to jewelry’s history and its contemporary re-interpretation. My work is meant to expose our responses to jewelry and biases we have about the object, maker, viewer and wearer of a work. Unlike many craft practices, jewelry transcends strict utility and has the power to create a personal or social statement. I am interested in subverting our expectations in order to illuminate them.”
What does being queer mean to you in relation to your material choices? Is it something you consider?
“I consider the role of traditional methods/materials and their reinterpretation and, by doing so, create a space of belonging."
“The work is queer because the maker is queer. The subject matter is about the disembodied voice, which could be interpreted as queer in itself."
Is the work queer because the maker is queer, or is it queer because the subject matter is queer?
"Dangling Conversation", Enamel on copper, sterling, 1.75" x 2.5", 2023