Audrea Kreye Explained

Audrea Kreye
Birth Name:Lillian Audrea Coddington
Birth Date:16 February 1919
Birth Place:Plainfield, New Jersey, US
Death Place:Dayton, Ohio, US
Nationality:American
Field:Jewelry, metalworking, silversmithing
Training:Keuka College, Columbia University
Movement:anticlastic design

Lillian Audrea Coddington Kreye (February 16, 1919 – April 3, 2010), known professionally as Audrea Kreye, was an American educator and artist, metalsmith and jewelry designer, who was particularly known for her anticlastic and enameled jewelry as well as her liturgical and religious metalworks in silver.

Early life

Kreye was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, the daughter of Lillian Fedderman and William Coddington.[1]

Kreye graduated from Plainfield High School in 1935 and received her B.A. from Keuka College in Keuka, New York, and her M.A. from Columbia University's Teacher's College in New York City.[2] She spent the first part of her career as a teacher of French, history and civics in New Jersey at Bound Brook High School, located in Bound Brook, New Jersey, from 1943 through 1960. She departed her position due to her marriage to Warren C. Kreye and their impending move to Dayton, Ohio.[3]

Though she began her career as a public school teacher, she had been interested for many years in jewelry design and manufacture, with some sources dating that interest to the early 1930s when she was a teenager.[4] She began designing and making her own jewelry and had her first known public exhibition was in 1955 at the Barbizon Plaza Art Gallery in New York City with members of the Craft Students League of the Plainfield Y.W.C.A.[5]

Career

Kreye was a student of the Finnish-American metalsmith, Heikki Seppä.[6] She became known for her work as a maker of anticlastic jewelry, where individual pieces were formed out of single sheets of metal, which in the case of Kreye, was primarily done utilizing copper or silver. She also utilized the talents of her husband, a chemist, who in the late 1960s/early 1970s helped her devise methods of using electroplating in her work.[7] During this period, she experimented with mixing glass and stained glass into her pieces, as was noted in the book The Complete Book of Creative Glass Art by Polly Rothenberg (1974).

By the early 1970s Kreye was teaching jewelry making at the YWCA in Kettering, Ohio.[8] In the mid-1970s she also began teaching copper enameling at the Dayton Senior Citizens’ Center. From roughly 1982 until the early 2000s Kreye was a regular instructor at the Riverbend Art Center in Dayton, a period when her work was featured in American Craft Magazine. While at Riverbend, she taught numerous local artists the techniques of metalworking and jewelry making.[9]

Death

Kreye died on April 3, 2010 in a long-term care facility near Dayton. She was interred in Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum.[10]

In 2023, a portion of her estate was acquired by Sloane Square Gallery, an arts and antiques gallery located in Huntington, West Virginia, where they are currently offered for sale.[11]

Exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lillian Coddington . Ancestry.com . 4 February 2023.
  2. Web site: U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-2016 . Ancestry.com.
  3. Web site: The Central New Jersey Home News (July 26, 1960) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  4. Web site: Dayton Daily News (May 24, 2001) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  5. Web site: The Bridgewater Courier-News (May 19, 1955) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  6. Web site: Anticlastic Raising . 11 July 1999 . 4 February 2023.
  7. Ceramics Monthly . Ceramics Monthly . 1971 . 19 . 25.
  8. Web site: Dayton Daily News (June 4, 1974) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  9. Web site: Wilmington News-Journal (March 11, 1985) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  10. Web site: Ohio, U.S., Death Records, 1908-1932, 1938-2018 . Ancestry.com . 4 February 2023.
  11. Web site: Author's visit to Sloane Square Gallery, Huntington, West Virginia on February 4, 2023. . .
  12. Web site: The Bridgewater Courier-News (May 19, 1955) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  13. Web site: The Dayton Journal Herald (February 7, 1975) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  14. Web site: The Dayton Journal Herald (February 21, 1980) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  15. Web site: The Dayton Daily News (November 18, 1984) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  16. Web site: The Richmond Palladium-Item (November 10, 1984) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  17. Web site: The Dayton Daily News (March 24, 1991) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  18. Book: New Art Examiner (Volume 21, 1993) . google.com/books . 1993 . 4 February 2023.
  19. Web site: Troy Daily News (August 6, 1998) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  20. Web site: The Dayton Daily News (March 14, 1999) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  21. Web site: The Dayton Daily News (November 7, 1999) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  22. Web site: The Dayton Daily News (May 24, 2001) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  23. Web site: The Paducah Sun (June 27, 2003) . Newspapers.com . 4 February 2023.
  24. Book: Painting with Fire: Masters of Enameling in America, 1930-1980 . google.com/books . 978-0-9712772-8-1 . 4 February 2023 . Jazzar . Bernard N. . Nelson . Harold B. . 2006 . Long Beach Museum of Art .

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