Opera Double Brooch (left) during Dina Wind: Transformations at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, 2015
"Opera Double Brooch holds together seemingly irreconcilable forms and forces in fragile balance... Wind combines contrasting registers of proportion: the miniature size of jewelry intersects with the larger-scale reality of both her sculptural practice and source material. Indeed, referencing her son's profession as a jewelry designer, Wind imagined Opera Double Brooch as enlarged jewelry for architecture, a decorative ornament fit to tectonic magnitude. The work's particular placement on the wall also defies expectations, mounting the sculptural object where paintings traditionall live. Above all, the lyrical intensity of Opera Double Brooch transforms industrial detritus of Philadelphia into something beautiful, unexpected, and loved without obscuring the material identity of the original objects."
Charlotte Ickes, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Art
