Colorado - Contemporary Art

Stampede features animals, trees, birds and hills sawn out with a basic jeweler's saw from American and foreign coins. This artwork spotlights bison from buffalo nickels...

Abe double spiral Artist: Stacey Lee Webber. Abe Double Spiral is an original artwork by found-object artist, Stacey Lee Webber. Webber's work has been curated into the permanent collections of The Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery in Washington DC, the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton Massachusetts, the fine art collection of Wells Fargo Bank, the international Kamm Teapot Foundation and numerous private art collections around the world. Abe Double Spiral is a wall piece within Webber's Imagine Series which is composed entirely out of copper pennies that have been sawn out by hand to expose the silhouette of the iconic Abraham Lincoln. This meticulous coin hand-work is Webber's signature technique within her found-object sculptures. The Imagine Series: Abe Double Spiral transforms over 200 pennies by soldering the hand cut Lincolns to posts and arranging them into a unique geometric design within a striking circular frame which reflects the original circle of the coin. The double spiral pattern composed inside the circular frame of the Abe Double Spiral is a unique design that will not be duplicated within the series, making it a one-of-a-kind piece of art. American artist, Stacey Lee Webber was born in Indianapolis Indiana in 1982. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Ball State University in 2005. Webber went on to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin - Madison where she was awarded a full time artist assistantship all three years of her degree program under her major professor, Lisa Gralnick. After earning a Master of Fine Arts in 2008 she went on to become an artist in residence at Lillstreet Art Center in Chicago in 2009. In 2011 Webber moved to Philadelphia to pursue her dream of being a full time artist. After four bustling years of teaching at Tyler School of Art, University of the Arts and Rowan University while working as a production jeweler for a local jewelry company in Philadelphia, she made her dream come to fruition in 2015. Webber is currently working and living on the northeast side of Philadelphia where she has made a career of making and selling artwork and jewelry. Webber has exhibited her work around the world including the Cheongju International Craft Biennale in the Republic of Korea, Gallery Okariya in Tokyo, and Sophie Lachaert Gallery in Belgium. Her work has been curated into the permanent collections of The Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery in Washington DC, the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton Massachusetts, the fine art collection of Wells Fargo Bank, the Kamm Teapot Foundation collection and numerous private art collections around the world. As a contemporary metalsmith, Webber cherishes working with found materials whose history is physically evident. Her work is often described as meticulous, pushing the boundaries of everyday recognizable objects to the point of unidentifiable. Through material, she strives to make artwork that interests a broad range of viewers and challenges their preconceived notions of the objects that surround them. Webber’s sculpture...