Sandra Enterline's jewelry exudes a pared down sensuality that is rich with thoughtful subtlety. She builds her pieces with an engineer's love for precision while reducing complex ideas to their most essential expression. As attentive to the interiors of her works, as she is their visible surface, the range and depth of this artist, and her work, is exceptional.

Born in Oil City, Pennsylvania and raised in Eerie, she became fond of creating at an early age. The puppets and handbags of buttons she made as a child were early expressions of a passion that lead to the Rochester Institute of Technology and then the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is found in numerous museum collections including New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Art and Design, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Oakland Museum in California. She is also a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts grants.

The unifying characteristics of Enterline's creations are her impeccable workmanship, the crisp intentionality of her pieces and her fascination with interiors. Nothing is extraneous in her work; it is deliberate, controlled and intense. She is widely known for her hollow form fabrication and hand drilled surfaces but she also creates pieces with glass lenses and diamond slices behaving like windows, pieces distinctly lacking her signature perforation. Her works also reflect an awareness of her jewelry's physicality and how it appears on the body, an aspect of her design so important to the impact of her work.

Her attention to interiors finds various expressions. Examples are the works for which she may be best known, pieces made using 20 gauge sheet silver that she drills, and drills, and drills some more. She endows a solid sheet of silver with the transparency of a sieve and gives the sheet dimension by creating voluminous closed forms from it. Each is a sculpture of vaguely organic reference. The drilled metal becomes a veil through which we glimpse the form's interior, where sometimes surprises await, like a cache of rubies, audible but barely discernable. And even the pieces that have no treasure to conceal, offer the gleam of an interior gold surface that reflects light from within. However beautiful these works may be, they exist to lure the discovery of that which is unseen.

Enterline cannot be limited to one idea and works in a variety of styles. These other works seem completely different, until one looks more closely and then her distinctive aesthetic is evident. One example is a brooch, a composition in gold, silver, ruby and diamond slices. It is the same impeccable workmanship but the mystery of the works just described is turned inside out. It has no volume or appearance of mass. Instead the elements are joined into relationship with shafts of heavy gold wire. The structure is like a two dimensional constellation. At first, it seems so unlike her other works that one is challenged to identify Enterline's hand. Nonetheless, the precision of the composition and meticulous execution reveal her. Exposed as the elements are, this brooch offers its own mysterious beauty.

Enterline's artist statement, quoted from her resume, is predictably direct. "My jewelry is based on a fascination with fragility, preciousness and the mystery of half-visible objects glimpsed through hundreds of tiny perforations. Refined shapes alternately cage, contain and reveal a golden interior. I make strong, simple sculptural objects that are complex, layered, discovered over time."

Enterline will provide some twenty new works for his exhibit. An opening will be held Friday, July 3, from 5:30 to 7:30.