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Christopher Liu earned his Studio Art BFA at Texas Tech University in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing under nationally accredited artists Professors Robly Glover and Nancy Slagle. He studied under award-winning metalsmith John Garrott at Allen High School where he developed designs such as Midnight and Zephyr - winning first place at the Saul Bell Design Awards in the Emerging Artist categories in consecutive years. He was awarded the 1st Place Carol Tyler Memorial Award and Technical Award in the 2024 New England Chapter, International Precious Metals Institute Jewelry Design Competition for his piece, Strata, and has exhibited in Craftforms 2023, the Bristol Art Museum's Miniature Monumental and the Craft Council of British Columbia Earring Show. He is also the recipient of the 2020 and 2023 MJSA Education Foundation Scholarship, the 2020 Clare Hart DeGolyer Memorial Fund Award presented by the Dallas Museum of Art, and the 2022 SNAG Educational Endowment.
He has taken on fine jewelry commissions and repairs, and is developing a jewelry design studio with the express focus of fabrication one-of-a-kind pieces. He spends his summers teaching silversmithing at Camp Fernwood, a seven-week sleepaway camp in Poland Maine featuring activities from landsports, watersports, and the visual and performing arts. Students 13-15 learn the fundamentals of metalsmithing, from sawing, filing, sanding and soldering, to enameling and stone setting, and apply these techniques to fabricate rings, pendants, necklaces, bangles, boxes and countless other projects.
Christopher is an MFA candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Jewelry/Metals/Enameling program at Kent State University under guidance from Professor Andrew Kuebeck, where he continues his research exploring and developing ways to augment the intimate experience of jewelry by bringing attributes of sculpture, installation and animation’s own intimate qualities, onto and around the body.
Christopher is an MFA candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Jewelry/Metals/Enameling program at Kent State University under guidance from Professor Andrew Kuebeck, where he continues his research exploring and developing ways to augment the intimate experience of jewelry by bringing attributes of sculpture, installation and animation’s own intimate qualities, onto and around the body.
Photo Credit - Justin Rex
"As a former competitive figure skater, I instinctually draw on the minutiae of my experience as a skater and liken the manipulation of metal to the intricate, constructed movement of the body across the ice. While the elements of “line” and “flow” (used to describe the form of a skater) are evident in my work, I aim to extend into space as I had across the vast surface of the ice. My current objective in regards to conceptual development is to combine attributes of sculpture, installation, and jewelry in order to obtain or create a sense of presence. In my latest series of jewelry such as Swoop I-V and the Levitation Series, I emphasize the use of traditional craft and fabrication techniques such as stone setting, drawing wire, and forming spicula to lift elements off of the body. These elements externalize the intimate experience of jewelry, that is of the wearer, piece, and viewer. I feel that these projections are a way for me and the wearer to physically reach out, filling the vacuum between people."
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