Carrara's 2009 Collection Expands
Press Release: Carrara’s 2009 Collection Expands to Include Singular Grooming Tools, Sculptural Rings and Flatblades
Imagination – the ability to continually discover – is the most prized tool of an artist. Gillion Carrara’s work is an ongoing exploration of sculptural design applied to functional and beautiful objects. With each collection, new objects emerge, as her evolution grows to a new level. She is fascinated by concentricity and the resonance of shape, texture, raw materials and mass. Yet as her careful handwork reveals new kinds of beauty from the materials she uses, it is the simplicity of a line and the burnishing of a patina that refine the jewelry and useful tools Carrara creates.
This collection’s brooches, cuffs, pendants, flatblades and grooming brushes bring together shape, finish and detailing. Lead-crystal and mottled stained-glass rings reflect light as they ornament the hand. Sculptural geometric exotic wood rings frame delicate silver details. New to the collection are mink, ermine, sable and badger brushes for applying blush, bronzer and shaving cream. Jewelry, brushes, spreaders and letter openers combine elements of horn, silver, bone, briar root, ebony and other exotic woods, reptile skin and vintage celluloid. Expanding doubled stainless-steel bracelets feature sculptural buckles, while cuffs become one with the wrists they adorn.
Precious treasures offered as gifts often punctuate a human connection, and when utility and beauty merge, a gift serves both functionally and emotionally. For this reason Carrara forges onward, making useful objects that hold meaning and enrich relationships.
In Chicago, Gillion Carrara's work is available at June Blaker, 870 North Orleans, 312.751.9220; I.D., 3337 North Halsted, 773.755.4343 and the Modern Wing Shop of the Art Institute of Chicago, 159 East Monroe Street, 312.443.3583. In Winnetka, Illinois her work is at Davis Miller, 549 Lincoln Avenue, 847.501.5511. For more information visit