Designer Bio
Casey Perez’ experiment in tinkering, Artifacts was born out of the designer’s unconventional take on a jewelry class final project. True to her investigative and slightly mischievous nature, when prompted to create a final sterling silver piece, Perez fastened a trompe l’oeil electrical socket to a ring base. As sort of middle-finger gesture to the rest of her class who had spent their time making more traditional creations, Perez decided to bridge the banal with the wearable. Perplexing her teacher and fellow students alike, Perez embarked upon her jewelry line--or perhaps anti-jewelry line, offering inventive, thought-provoking pieces balanced with charm and chic. Perhaps best dubbed a “creator of things,” Perez’s background, not surprisingly, is a mishmash of professional training in psychology, graphic design, art history, and illustration. Wincing at the label “jewelry designer” and also at the term “artist,” Perez is situated somewhere between the two. Working to reimagine conceptual conceits in jewelry making, she often places every day objects where they don’t normally appear—electrical sockets on fingers or pieces of window screen in rings--also working through common metals to underscore their materiality and the process of their creation. [READ MORE]
