PIECES OF WORK
By Artists Carol Schepps & Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura
On View: November 14 – December 12, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 14, 3-5pm
Exhibition Statement:
We have spent more than thirty years finishing each other’s sentences, and eventually, we started doing the same with our art. Our creative practices began in the demanding worlds of precision craft—one of us meticulously shaping wire, metal, and stone in jewelry design, and the other engineering form, movement, and texture through textiles and fashion. That foundational obsession with strict craftsmanship, micro-details, and structural integrity still rules everything we make.
However, somewhere along the line, the boundaries of traditional craft began to fray. We morphed into visual arts, trading functional parameters for purely expressive freedom. Today, our artwork, although dissimilar, brings the obsessive, tactile discipline of Trudy’s jeweler’s bench and Carol’s fashion studio onto the canvas and into three dimensions. We take our construction seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Our deep friendship ensures that a thread of humor, playfulness, and joy runs through every complex layer, proving that meticulous discipline and a good laugh can live in the exact same frame.