Sculpture Transformed: The Work of Marjorie Schick

“Part sculpture and part jewelry, her grand-scale fantastical creations are like body armor for fashion warriors. Colors explode, biomorphic shapes undulate, and constructions startle.”

– Tina Sutton, Boston Globe

“The eye-popping colors and inventive forms should delight those with a taste for the individual, the ingenious and the hip.”

– John Andrew Watson, The Muskegon Chronicle

For four decades Marjorie Schick has influenced the worlds of craft and jewelry both in the US and abroad. Though trained as a metalsmith and jeweler, Schick quickly acquired an international reputation for her sculptural experiments—made largely from alternative materials—that transcend traditional categories. Always conceived with the human form in mind, her challenging body sculptures are brilliantly colored mixed-media works that are simultaneously ornamental, performative, visual, and tactile.

Currently a professor at Pittsburgh State University in Kansas, Schick has pieces in many of the world’s major museums, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul; Applied Art Museum, Oslo; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to name just a few.  She has also been featured in Metalsmith, American Craft magazine, and International Crafts, and is the winner of several important awards, such as the Kansas Governor’s Arts Award and the NEW fellowship award in crafts.

Sculpture Transformed presented 67 objects that traced the 40 years of Schick’s experimentation with the body’s relation to form, texture, and color. The exhibition was curated by Tacey A. Rosolowski, PhD, a former Smithsonian Institution Fellow at the Renwick Gallery and an award-winning essayist and lecturer.

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