Born in Brooklyn, Rodger Stevens is a sculptor and jewelry maker based in New York. His exploration of jewelry began during a residency at the Museum of Arts and Design, after he decided that the space would be inhospitable to the large-scale sculpture that was typical of his practice. Made with brass wire, his jewelry is rooted in a formal language developed over a lifetime of drawing and more than twenty years of working with linear materials. Though abstract in appearance, each of his pieces draws its imagery from, and is intended to embody fragments of, personal experience, literature, mathematics, human physiology, and other sources of deep interest to the artist. In addition to maintaining a full-time art practice, Stevens teaches at the Parsons School of Design.
