Erica Rosenfeld

"My jewelry is inspired by Turn of the Century Viennese Design and Mid-Century Modern Design and is informed by the stories adornment can tell about history, tradition, ritual, culture, and design."

In both Erica’s art and design practices, she has three different bodies of work which include limited edition jewelry, installations that hold sculptures and 2-dimensional works, and glass performance. Although they feel separate in some ways, she finds the thread between them all is her love of ritual and obsessive labor-intensive processes, her interest in transforming spaces (rooms and bodies), and her need to gather and fill things quite literally and figuratively. Her jewelry and sculpture interplay while a conversation begins between the larger piece as it becomes a memory of its jewelry counterpart.

Erica uses various glass-making processes to create her jewelry including blowing, hot-working, and carving as well as beading processes. She is always interested in finding new applications for traditional techniques.

Erica studied Art at Kenyon College and received her BFA upon graduation. She has also had an experiential learning education in glass-making since 2000 while working in glass studios and glass museums across the United States and globally.