Nikki Renee Anderson

The Jewel Boxes are inspired by the Mother Goose nursery rhyme ‘What Are Little Girls’ (sugar, spice and everything nice). The forms represent jewelry boxes, which contain sculptures that are a combination of cosmetic forms, sweets, the female body and a syrup coating. The white box-sculptures became like small architectural spaces in which to house the sculptural forms I created. I initially imagined them as jewelry boxes but as I created them, they also evolved into mini rooms, like tiny living spaces.

With all of these sculptures, the viewer must make the physical effort to look inside of the box because the view from the exterior is meaningless. This action brings a person into the private, miniature, and fantasy world of the piece. These sculptures were included in the group exhibition, Sculpture Invasion, at the Koehnline Museum of Art.

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