The Gallery at Reinstein|Ross is thrilled to usher in 2018 with “Meta-smith” an exhibition highlighting current trends in 3D printed jewelry. The exhibition will open on January 18, 2018 and remain on view through February 19, 2018. Not since the Museum of Art and Design’s highly-acclaimed exhibition “Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital” (October 16, 2013- June 1, 2014), has such an important exhibition and featuring so many prominent artists who are working in the realm of CAD-CAM, has been mounted. The exhibition will feature the work of Emily Cobb, Joshua DeMonte, Arthur Hash, Matthew Hollern, Nicole Jacquard, Svenja John, Phil Renato, Caitlin Skelcey, and Rebecca Strzelec. Meta-smith is co-curated by Bella Neyman, Director, Gallery of Reinstein|Ross, and designer Douglas Bucci.

The jewelry presented in “Meta-smith” aims to show that digital processes have become another, and equally important, tool on the jeweler’s bench. Each piece is a product of many hours of thoughtful design and production, which often involves careful hand manipulation as it does the click of the mouse. Works on view will be made from a combination of technologies such as additive Rapid Prototyping processes and the subtractive processes of Computer-Aided Machining including 3D color printing, Fused Deposition Modelling, laser cutting and engraving, and the use of a 3D doodle pen.

The title of the exhibition, Meta-smith comes from the article “Influence of the Digital: Toward a New Medium” written by Bucci and Hollern and published in Metalsmith magazine (25, no. 5: pp. 34-41) in 2005. In this article, the writers state that “As the silversmith was redefined as the metalsmith, so too the metalsmith may be redefined as the ‘metasmith.’"