Agnes Seebass
mail@agnesseebass.com



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Education

Study of jewelry design and production technique at “Staatliche Zeichenakademie Hanau”, Hanau, Germany. Graduated with certificate as goldsmith.

Study of architecture and French at the “Universite du Mirail”, Toulouse, France

Practical course in architecture at “HHS-Architecture Bureau”, Bremen, Germany


Professional Experience

Study of silversmith techniques at workshop “Los Castillo”, Taxco, Mexico under scholarship from German institution “Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft”

Professional work under jewelry designers Erich Hergert (Bremen, Germany) and Monika Vesely (Munich, German)


Professional Activities

Collective exhibition “The Bracelet Show—A Collective”, Kathleen Sommers Designs, San Antonio, TX

Collective exhibition “Worn: Functional Art”, Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK

Two-person exhibition “Two Maestros de Mexico: Jewelry and Hollowware” at The Great Southwest Art Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO

Individual exhibition “Jade Collection”, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

Visiting artist, “16 Hands” studio tour (invited by Silvie Granatelli), Floyd, VA

Collective exhibition (6 Mexican silver artists), “Continuity Amidst Challenge”, Smokebrush Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO (February 1-March 17, 2007)

Visiting artist, “16 Hands” studio tour (invited by Silvie Granatelli), Floyd, VA

Collective exhibition along with Mexican painters at Gallery Art & Art, Cuernavaca, Mexico
Collective exhibition “Maestros Mayores de la Plata” at the opening of Torre Mayor, Mexico City (May-August 2004)

Traveling collective exhibition “Maestros de la Plata, William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance” which opened October 2002 in San Antonio, TX, and traveled to San Diego, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, Boston, and Delaware

Collective exhibition “Tres Diseños de la Plata” (three silver designers), at the Museum of William Spratling, Taxco, Mexico (December 2002)

Individual show at the Gallery Entenaya Plata, Mexico City

Individual show at Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

Collective exhibition at the design gallery “Dimo”, Mexico City

Designed jewelry for German jewelry company “Schmuck in Form”

Individual exhibition at Plaza Loreto, Mexico City during celebration of “German Week”

Designed and produced jewelry for sale at:
“Palacio de Hierro”, Mexico City
“Galeria Ziara” , Mexico City
“Michel Bucker”, New York, NY

Invited lecture on modern jewelry design during the “Week of Design” at the University Ibero Americana, Mexico City

Individual exhibition at “Design Bureau”, Mexico City


Awards:

Second place new trends in jewelry at the LXXII National Contest of Silverwork, Taxco, Mexico

Honorable mention jewelry category at the LXXI National Contest of Silverwork, Taxco, Mexico


Work shown in following publications:

Article in the “Intérieur magazin” Budapest, Hungary
Online version: www.interieurmagazin.hu/english.html

500 Pendants & Lockets: Contemporary Interpretations of Classic Adornments, Lark Books

Modern Silver Magazine
Online article: www.modernsilver.com/june07/agnesseebass.htm

Magazine “inStyle”, Mexico

Magazine “Elle” Mexico

Catalog for exhibition “William Spratling and the Mexican Silver Renaissance: Maestros de Plata” (page 68)

“Origina”, Mexico

“Origina”, Mexico

“Zeit Form”, Germany

“Harper’s Bazaar”, Mexico


Work sold / has been sold at the following museum stores:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City
American Museum of National History, New York, NY
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Historic New Orleans collection, New Orleans, LA
The Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA
The Saint Luis Art Museum, Saint Luis, MI
The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio , TX
Museum of Modern Art, San Francsico, CA