Four Winds Gallery
Current Exhibition:
Bruce King June 2011
Past Exhibitions:
Denise Wallace March 2011
Cody Sanderson 2010
Buying Trip 2010
Historic Pueblo Ollas
For the Collector 2010
Stan Natchez 2009
Buying Trip 2009
Old Pawn Collection
Denise Wallace
Cody Sanderson
Buying Trip 2008
R.C. Gorman
Bruce King and Na Na Ping
Jovanna Poblano and Daniel Chattin
Buying Trip 2007
Liz Wallace
Stan Natchez - Shoshoni/Paiute Artist
NaNa Ping and Thomas Bucich
Buying Trip 2006
George Catlin
Denise and Samuel Wallace
Image Gallery - Denise and Samuel Wallace
Image Gallery - Dawn Wallace
Charlene Reano
Buying Trip 2005
Robert Deurloo
Edward Sheriff Curtis
Liz Wallace
Buying Trip 2004
Zapotec Weavings of Teotitlan
Clifford Fragua
NaNa Ping
Three generations: Denise with daughter Dawn
and grandson Ethan
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To celebrate 30 years of trading, Four Winds Gallery is proud to host their third exhibition of the remarkable Aleut artist Denise Wallace and her daughter Dawn.
SATURDAY 26th March 2011 Noon to 5:00pm
Internationally acclaimed artists Denise and her family have been creating transformation jewellery since 1977. Inspired by the folk tales and animals of Alaska and the Bearing Sea, the jewellery is comprised of carved and scrimshawed fossil walrus ivory in varying hues of white and caramel with semi precious stones set into gold and silver.
The work is finely detailed and often has
hidden pieces of jewellery worked within the host piece. Many creations feature masks and coverings that open to reveal further artistry lying within.
Woman in the moon ring - Denise Wallace
The transformative power contained in the ancient stories of the arctic native peoples seems to have reached accross the centuries to find expression in the lives and works of the Wallace family. Master jewellers whose pieces depict icons and legends inspired by old Bering Sea culture, the Wallaces possess an almost mystical ability to wrest continuity from disparate elements - gold and silver, culture and design, desert silver inlaid with fossil ivory, the deep blue lapis lazuli beside the swirling green of malacite.
Transformation earrings - Denise Wallace
The jewellery of Denise and Samuel Walace can be appreciated for its exquisitely crafted objects of art, as a window into the culture of the arctic people and as visual stories with the motif of transformation. Combining their respective expertise in metalwork and lapidary, Denise, a Chugach (Eskimo) Aleut, born in 1957 and her non-native husband, Samuel, born in 1936, create wearable art.
The physical and spiritual world of the arctic peoples provide a waelth of literal and metaphorical images for Denise.
"I think of myself as a storyteller. My grandmother used to tell me stories and today I remember them when I am planning and sketching a piece."
Face mask pendant earrings - Denise Wallace
'Mimi' bracelet - Densie Wallace
The arctic people believe the animals, whales, bears, walrus and seals, in fact all living creatures, contain a Yua (its double) - the name comes from Central Yup'ik Eskimos of Alaska whose art is the Wallaces major source of inspiration - that is capable of taking on different forms.
Double seal pendant with removeable fish earrings - Denise Wallace
Jennifer has just returned from the USA with a collection of exquisite turn of the 20th Century jewellery.
Pieces include:
• A large Leekya tab necklace and two of his rings
• Historic earrings
• Wonderful early bracelets
• Fine inlay by renowned Zuni artists
• Beautiful early silver beads
• A few sets of great turquoise Jaclas
• Great early rings and squash blossom necklaces
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Jewellery by David Wallace
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