Silver and Glass Necklace, Julie Anne Mihalisin

The silver snake chain necklace suspending nine variously shaped amber glass stations set in conforming silver bezels, signed Jam / 1993, necklace completed with hooks to each end, all testing silver.

Center station 1.5 in.; Necklace 21 in.

5.755 troy oz.

The Contemporary Art Collection of Francine & Benson Pilloff, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Julie Anne Mihalisin (b. 1962) studied jewelry at Tyler School of Art and as a graduate student at London's Royal College of Art. Mihalisin quickly developed a fascination with the contrasting properties of glass and metal. The artist uses the technique of "kiln-slumped glass jewelry," in which a metal framework that helps shape the glass is in turn entrapped in the glass. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Museum of Arts and Design.

Accompanied by display case and a copy of article written by Nancy Ukai Russell, "Julie Anne Mihalisin: Luminous Renderings" published in Ornament Magazine, Issue 17, 1993, pages 50-53.

Featured in Ornament Magazine, issue 17, 1993, p. 52

Good estate condition.