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About Joyce Goodman Many things draw me to work as an artist and designer. The first is that it is a way of learning about materials and how things work. Beauty, itself, also compels me to live a creative life. Beauty lifts hearts and hopes. Wherever we encounter it, Beauty opens us to embrace new experiences. If you are interested in Knit Kit Jewelry, you are also someone who enjoys working with your hands and who appreciates the confidence and enrichment that comes from making and surrounding yourself with beautiful things. Since 1994 I have been making art jewelry, primarily using ancient, Classical gold-smithing methods. Reinterpreting the timeless design languages of Egypt, Greece and Rome, I began to combine them with other long-enduring techniques from another tradition - textiles. I applied the fiber techniques I have enjoyed for years to non-traditional materials and began weaving, knitting and crocheting with metal. Crafting a new kind of jewelry over the following years, I joined 22k gold granulated clasps to knitted bracelet bands studded with sapphires. I was inspired by nature, the cell by cell growth that living things share with knitting, and the record of experience knitted wire shows by “remembering” bends and twists, like skin or bark show their history via freckles and scars. Expanding beyond the intimate scale of jewelry, I knit large sculptures to float suspended from ceilings. I made “portrait” translations of the textural organic patterns I saw in plant growth and tree bark. Wherever it was exhibited, my metal-textile fabrications intrigued jewelry customers and gallery visitors. They couldn’t help but touch the knitted wire and stare, entranced, as I am, by its ethereal qualities. Sometimes I saw wheels turning in the minds of people familiar with knitting and crocheting as they asked simple questions: What size needles did I use? Where did I get the knitting wire? What stitch pattern is that? I wanted to say, “Yes. It’s kind of amazing, isn’t it! Feel it. Knitting with wire makes such an interesting, different kind of fabric. Try it!” But, after years of working with metals, of learning, experimenting and making, I knew that switching from knitting fiber to metal involves more than switching from wool to cotton. I knew the struggles I have had designing and making my own clasps, finding the right kinds of wire, balancing the strength of the wire against the strength of my hands and tenderness of my skin. I created Knit Kit Jewelry® by Joyce Goodman (Knit Kits, Inc.) so that now, I can say, “Here, I’ll show you…” Biography Joyce Goodman did her undergraduate and graduate studies in Interior and Industrial Design and worked in those fields professionally. As a jeweler, she studied with masters Bessie Jameson, Louise Parrish and Chuck Evans. She has also studied with Arlene Fisch, Katharine Cobey and Jerry Bleem, three great innovators in fiber techniques, its practice, non-traditional uses and their expression through non-traditional materials. Joyce’s jewelry has been shown at such venues as The Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, ACC Baltimore, The Walters Museum, SOFA/NY, Aaron Faber Gallery and The American Craft Museum. She taught jewelry making at Jewelry Arts Institute in NY, and is proud of her work establishing a jewelry program in Salvador, Brazil for Projeto Axe – an NGO that uses mastery gained through art to save the lives of children living on the streets. Goodman’s sculptural work has been shown in Fine Art galleries in New York, Chicago, Boston, Alberta, Canada, among others. She lives in Manhattan with her rescue Corgi, Spanky of Carnegie Hill. |
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