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Juicy jewelry from Bruce Metcalf, detailed drawings from South Philly

Like candy in a sweetshop, Bruce Metcalf’s painted and carved wood jewelry calls out to you from behind the glass cases in Snyderman Gallery. Colorful, stylized lips and breasts and biomorphic tendrils that suggest underwater creatures make up the necklaces and brooches you see. These plumped up and gorgeous little objects with their sensuous surfaces and bright, seductive colors are like those playful creatures from an Elizabeth Murray painting–beguiling and can we say, naughty?