DAVIS & LANGDALE COMPANY, 231 EAST 60TH STREET, NEW YORK, ESTABLISHED IN 1952, announces its forthcoming exhibition:

SAMUEL GUILLÉN: RECENT JEWELRY

beginning Saturday, March 7th, and continuing through Saturday, April 4th, 2015.

This is SAMUEL GUILLÉN’s first exhibition in the United States and will consist of about 25 pieces of sterling silver jewelry executed between 2012 and 2015.

GUILLÉN, born in 1977 in Caracas, Venezuela, is a jeweler trained with Klaus Bürgel, Susan Sloan, and Ursi Galletti.

Living and working in New York, GUILLÉN conceives, designs, and manually produces all his pieces in silver, using hollow construction and various oxidation techniques. Interested in classic modern jewelry, GUILLÉN cites primitive and ancient silverwork as well as contemporary urban landscape as inspirations.

His most recent works echo his everyday experience of the cityscape: the entanglement of basic metallic elements- rough steel, visible welding junctures, scaffolding, tubing, fencing in construction sites, subways, and bridges. GUILLÉN transforms these visual presences into motifs for his jewelry.

In 2012 GUILLÉN had a one person exhibition Geometric Paths, at the Cultural Park La Trinidad/Secadero Uno in Caracas. His work has been in group exhibitions at the Instituto Tomie Ohtake design store in São Paulo, Brazil, and, most notably, at the National Salon of the Arts of Fire in Venezuela.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Please contact Meredith Mueller or Anna Mudd at (212) 838-0333; email [email protected]; or visit www.davisandlangdale.com.

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