Fabled Adornment; Curtis Arima

Curtis Arima recieved his BFA in Jewelry/Metal Arts & Ceramics from the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA and graduated with high disctinction. He went on to earn his MFA in Metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He as been an Artist in Residence at both the California College of Arts and Crafts and Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Maine.

"The world of over consumption and disposability we throw away the old or damaged rather reconsider its future utility. The "Transformed Adornment" series attempts to question ideas about value and materiality; Transforming (or destroying) by embellishing while celebrating its past. The objects' adornment grows out of the pieces linking them back to their decorative historical motifs of acanthus.

These pieces try to find beauty in the overlooked and under appreciated through representation in metal, while being a reminder of the chaos that can occur when one does not temper ideologies."

Cameron Kelly

Fiveten Studio features Cameron Kelly

'I attempt to create a visual experience both personal and social. My process begins as an exploration of the qualities inherent in found objects and develops as a self-referential posturing between the work and my experience. Working with materials is like an interview of sort - an inner dialogue about identity, form and creative ability. I find mark-making to be an exercise in observation and self investigation. Repetition is a common element in my work. It honors process, documents time, and is a method to finding a personal rhythm.

My inspiration lives in an interdependent world where dream and day-to-day life interplay. Bringing idea to form confirms that our humanness is our ability to make ideas visible. I find comfort in practicing that. I often call upon my staple materials; cast wax, metals,things like hairbrushes or animal bones to stir the intuitive unconscious. I am forever utilitarian  considering new mediums and examining the possibilities around me. 

Justine Ashbee

Fiveten Studio features the work of Justine Ashbee.  

Justine exploits the visual and conceptual parallels in science and studies of consciousness. 

'My connection to line, pattern, textile, material, and process is very physical and direct. My own work is an intuitive investigation a fluid process of mark-making that explores the trace of the invisible, things we feel and know and yet cannto see. In my experience, textile architecture and pattern is where I find the strongest likeness, and has been the strongest vehicle through which to explore and elucidate these sensations.'

FIVETEN MENTIONED AS PART OF OLD OAKLANDS GREAT COMEBACK

DIABLO magazine mentioned fiveten studio as part of a "burgeoning hipster scene" responsible for Downtown's Oakland comeback.  Yeah Downtown Oakland. 

510 in 7x7 Magazine under "Best Area Code"

That's right fiveten studio was mentioned in a magazine about San Francisco. They called fiveten studio an "edgier version of Hayes Valley's Rose & Radish (that is, a gallery-and-retail-space hybrid), featuring works by artists from all over the world." 

7x7 Magazine.

Juxtaposed: Religion by Mike & Maaike

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JUXTAPOSED: Religion is the first in the Juxtaposed series of curated bookshelves. For the first time, the world's most influential religious texts are brought together and presented on the same level, their coexistence acknowledged and celebrated.

Stolen Jewels by Mike & Maaike

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Stolen Jewels is an exploration of tangible vs. virtual in relation to real and perceived value. Low resolution images of famous jewels were "stolen" from Google Image Search and transferred and scored onto leather.