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"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm," runs the lyric of a Bob Dylan song. Something of that air of intimacy and generosity animates Carolyn Morris Bach’s jewelry. Partly it is the companionableness of her pieces. The tiny animals carved of ivory, fossil bone or ebony that abound on her brooches, necklace, earrings and pendants look like friendly visitors. An ivory rabbit, a favorite figure, gambols above a brooch of rutilated quartz, suspended in an angular frame of handwrought gold wires resembling twined twigs. In several pieces, foxes, deer, fish and owls pose evocatively.

Bach’s refined compositions have a certain extravagance, especially in her use of gleaming gemstones that she mixes with other materials. Her works exude the confidence of an artist in full command and willing to take a more exuberant tack with ideas and structures she has previously explored.


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