On the Horizon & Kim Stahl Presents: Mesmerizing treasures from Earth
by Kim Stahl
Exhibition Dates: January through June 2023
Location: Pre-security, Upper Level Ticketing Lounge
Vitrine 1
With the popularity of mobile cellular phones and huge antenna towers erected over the landscape, Stahl’s body of work explores that which, at the time, she saw as the near future. The future with people would need to wear personal antenna towers to get good reception. Satellite dishes as brooches and transmitters and amplifiers on our heads or body all to assist with the bandwidth and connectivity. It seemed to Stahl to be something just on the horizon.
Vitrine 2
With a partner that has over 40+ years of experience as a geologist and mineral dealer, Kim Stahl has been able to glean from Stan Perry’s vast knowledge of rocks, minerals, and crystal specimens. She has taken that appreciation and adoration, and with access to his private collection, curated these mesmerizing treasures from Earth you see displayed. The hope is that you, just like when Kim first began to study rocks, crystals, and minerals feel the wonderment, get curious, take in the awesomeness of our planet, see the beauty and complexity, and comprehend that this is just a small representation of other glorious minerals and combinations yet to be seen or even discovered.
About the Artist: Kim Stahl
After receiving a BFA in Jewelry Design and Metalsmithing from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2003, Stahl moved to New York City. Over the next 12 years in NYC, she continued to create her work while engaging and exploring the various facets of the jewelry industry. Working for named designers like Fassbinder, Charon Kransen, and Alexis Bittar. In 2007, inspired by a hand-forged canopy bed in a neighborhood store, she began exploring larger metal fabrication possibilities which led to an apprenticeship in a blacksmithing studio run by Marsha Trattner of She-Weld, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn. As hurricane Sandy hit the area, the studio and the area residents were displaced for quite some time, and in 2015 Stahl moved to St. Louis, Missouri. She-weld reopened in March 2018. While working in St. Louis for various Artists, the opportunity to compete on the History Channel’s Forged in Fire knife-making competition show became available and marked her as the Show’s First Female Competitor airing in February 2016 (S. 2 E. 1 “Warhammer”). Stahl currently sells handmade knives under @STAHLSTEELKNIVES and her edgy jewelry designs @KimStahlDesigns, she participates in local Pop-up Shopping events and teaches blacksmithing, MIG welding, and demos other metalsmithing techniques at the Arch Reactor Makerspace.
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