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SOFA NY 2008

Thursday & Friday, May 29 - 30, 11 am –8 pm
Saturday, May 31, 11 am – 7 pm
Sunday, June 1, Noon – 6pm
Official SOFA Website: http://www.sofaexpo.com/

This year at SOFA New York, Mobilia Gallery will showcase a wonderful collection of textiles,ceramics, jewelry, and metalwork.

Wendy Ramshaw’s celebrated series, Colorfield, explores colorful possibilities in stunning jewelry. Catalog available.

Kevin Coates: A Notebook of Pins, first exhibited at The Wallace Collection, and then Mobilia Gallery, now travels to SOFA. Catalog and new Hidden Alchemy book, featuring his complete works, available.

In conjunction with our upcoming gallery exhibit, we will also present Nora Fok’s Nylon Botanicus II. Woven monofilament jewelry inspired by the glass flowers at Harvard’s Natural History Museum.

Jeweler to the Queen of Denmark, Hanne Behrens creates intricate woven jewelry. Along with a display of her wonderful work, a catalog is available from her recent retrospective.

Gallery Talks at Mobilia Gallery Booth #411 Friday, May 30, 2008 11:30 am | Asagi Maeda Asagi Maeda’s sculptural jewelry incorporates architectural elements and reveals exquisite narrative scenes of everyday life. 12:00 pm | Hanne Behrens Behrens discusses her process of weaving jewelry and the influences. Her recent retrospective traveled to museums throughout Denmark. (Catalog Available.) 2:30 pm | Kazumi Nagano - My Objective of Making Jewelry Nagano strives to inspire feelings of calmness and beauty with her jewelry. Her work was recently acquired by the V&A Museum, London. 3:00 pm | Yuka Saito - Space Beyond Space Saito will speak about her process and inspiration for the jewelry she creates using polypropylene and heat to form organic vibrantly colored shapes. Saturday, May 31, 2008 11:30 am | Elizabeth Goluch - The Insect Revealed Canadian metalsmith Goluch articulates the research and process of creating her one-of-a-kind,complex, nature-perfect insects. 12:00 pm | Cristina Dias Brazilian artist Dias shares the process, inspirations, and concepts in creating her vibrant and organic pieces of rubber jewelry. 2:30 pm | Dorothy Feibleman Feibleman, speaks about the intricate process to form her ceramic sake cups and vessels.

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Catalogs Available:

	Kevin Coates A Hidden Alchemy Goldsmithing: Jewels and Table Pieces A first, sumptuous overview of Kevin Coates's stunningly independent oeuvre. Surveying not only jewelry and tableware the publication introduces his exquisite jewelry series ("The Birthday Jewels", The Mozart Jewels", "Fragments", "An Alphabet of Rings" and "A Notebook of Pins"). Introduction by Sir Roy Strong
	Kevin Coates A Notebook of Pins (Exhibition Catalogue) Soft Cover 48 Pages Published by Mobilia Gallery 2007
	Mariko Kusumoto Metal Box Sculptures (Exhibition Catalogue) Soft Cover 30 Pages Published by Mobilia Gallery 2007
	Hanne Behrens Metal Tekstilt (Exhibition Catalog) Soft Cover 96 pages Published by Museum Sonderjylland Tonder 2007
	Wendy Ramshaw CBE Color Field (Exhibition Catalog) Soft Cover Published by Mobilia Gallery 2008

Mobilia Gallery on the SOFA Web Page