Stefan Gougherty

MFA 2020

Bug Brooches, 2019. Anodized titanium.

Bug Brooches, 2019. Anodized titanium.

 

Artist Statement

I create jewelry that is curious and interactive. Sampling content from trash to treasure, these playful objects are unpretentious and subversive. Exploring the surreal through engineering and illusion, these antics of adornment can confound our expectations. In celebration of our collective progress, I leverage industrial materials and manufacturing processes to anchor the work firmly within the present. Attempting to articulate this strange new digital world, an aesthetic of randomness is explored through mashups of contrasting realities. Staging collisions between vastly different references of time, scale and subject matter—an underlying unity can be found amongst the debris of shape and memory.

Party On a String, 2020. Sterling silver, stainless steel, synthetic fibers, found/altered objects.

Party On a String, 2020. Sterling silver, stainless steel, synthetic fibers, found/altered objects.

Lip Brooches, 2019. Sterling silver.

Lip Brooches, 2019. Sterling silver.

Fuzzy Necklace, 2020. Synthetic fibers, anodized titanium.

Fuzzy Necklace, 2020. Synthetic fibers, anodized titanium.

Quarter Perspective Brooch, 2020. Stretched quarter, anodized titanium.

Quarter Perspective Brooch, 2020. Stretched quarter, anodized titanium.

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Bio

Stefan Gougherty is an American designer, jeweler and educator based in Richmond, Virginia. He explores the gray areas between art and industrial production, creating unusual objects designed to turn heads and make people smile.

­­­­­­www.stefangougherty.com

Instagram: @instagougherty