CC | Lowe Art Museum, "Iris Eichenberg: Where Words Fail"

Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 11am

Lowe Art Museum

1301 Stanford Drive

Coral Gables, FL 33124

Organized by the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, and guest curated by Davira S. Taragin, this mid-career survey of German artist Iris Eichenberg addresses relevant issues such as identity, gender, and Heimat—a German word denoting the personal happiness and inner peace found upon reaching a safe haven. 

Featuring nearly forty objects that span three decades of activity, this exhibition is the first comprehensive, mid-career survey of Eichenberg's oeuvre, which ranges from conceptual jewelry to thought-provoking installations. The exhibition’s four thematic categories, Place, Self, Place & Self, and Community, introduce new audiences to this compelling artist's body of work, simultaneously inviting them to enjoy the beauty of the forms she creates while also engaging them through the important questions her work poses. Having lived in Germany, the Netherlands, and now the United States, artist and educator Iris Eichenberg brings a critical international perspective to her jewelry and metalwork. Davira Taragin states, “Over the past quarter-century, as an educator and prolific artist who lectures and conducts workshops worldwide, Eichenberg has been instrumental in molding and shaping art jewelry today. 

This exhibition will, hopefully, mark the beginning of much-needed scholarship on this seminal figure within late twentieth- and twenty-first-century art.” Where Words Fail will be on view at the Lowe from October 20, 2023 through January 13, 2024.

Tour conducted by Tola Porter, Ph.D., Museum Educator

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• Take Stanford Drive past the University of Miami Gatehouse and make your second left.
• Drive to the end of the street to enter the Garage.
• A parking attendant will direct you to paid parking and how to walk to the museum a short distance away.