About
Based in Santa Monica, California, Angélique Glennon is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, mixed media, assemblage, and an innovative body of sculptural jewelry she calls Newelry. Her practice is driven by a lifelong exploration of color, line, harmony, and three-dimensional form, often infused with humor and a sense of visual play.
Glennon’s work reimagines familiar environments—beaches, oceans, golf courses, aerial landscapes, and scenes of human civilization—by shifting scale, color, and function. Through her Newelry series, she transforms unexpected and reused materials into wearable sculptures, often presented within or attached to a corresponding painting. This dialogue between object and image invites viewers to reconsider meaning, material value, and perception. By miniaturizing expansive landscapes or repurposing everyday elements such as grains, wires, or found objects, she intentionally dissolves conventional associations and opens space for new interpretations.
Self-taught, with early painting studies in France, Glennon’s artistic path was shaped by formative moments beginning in the mid-1980s, when she first transformed discarded materials into jewelry in the south of France. Her work has been exhibited in France and California, including solo exhibitions in Venice (2012) and Santa Monica (2023), and she is currently affiliated with TAG Gallery.
Artist Statement
My work explores visual patterns of human civilization through unconventional materials, playful experimentation, and shifts in scale. Inspired by childhood fascinations with aerial views of the Earth and Moon, I create sculptural jewelry that reimagines familiar landscapes—beaches, golf courses, floating markets—when seen from above and reduced to wearable form.
Using materials such as seeds, grains, broken guitar strings, phone cables, and reused paper, I intentionally remove their expected meaning and function. Accidental events and intuitive decisions guide my process, allowing humor, harmony, and visual surprise to emerge naturally. This approach led to the development of Newelry, a hybrid practice that merges jewelry, sculpture, and painting.
Presented in dialogue with matching paintings and displayed in custom plexiglass frames, each piece invites viewers to reconsider scale, value, and perception. By transforming everyday materials and human-made environments into intimate, whimsical objects, my work opens a space for curiosity, conversation, and imaginative freedom.