From Minimal to Bling before installation, Society of Arts and Crafts Essentially it is a mini survey presenting the work of contemporary practitioners who we think are doing good and interesting work. With a number of fine art schools in the area, work in the exhibition has the possibility to become an extension of the […]
Is that a brooch in your drawers, or are you just pleased to see me Read More »
Anja Eichler, Mare, Shoulder sculpture, 2010, 12.5 x 18.5 x 22.7 cm, wrk glove, silk thread, steel Most people wouldn’t give a second look to the material that Anja Eichler is fondly referring to. In fact, this material is normally looked at for its function, not its aesthetic value. This elephant skin material she describes
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Carolina Gimeno, Necklace. Sterling silver with white rhodium, diamond. 10.6 x 6.9 in. The inspiration for the current ‘In Line’ exhibition at Aaron Faber Gallery came from a superb exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art last year that I had the good fortune to see. The MOMA show, titled “On Line: Drawing Through the
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It was the day after the opening of the Galerie Marzee graduation show, during the symposium where graduates were invited to present their work. A young Chinese jeweler asked one of the girls in the room to come and sit on a chair in front of him. He, standing behind her, took a golden chain
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Reprinted with permission from Kelly H L’Ecuyer et al, Jewelry by Artists: In the Studio, 1940-2000 (Boston: MFA Publications, 2010).
The Daphne Farago Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Read More »
How does a piece of jewelry graduate from your personal wardrobe to an institutional collection? I have embarked on this journey several times in the past, but the rules have changed and the museum acquisition process is more formal now. Recently, I began the process again with three pieces of art jewelry, each acquired in
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Boris De Beijer, Blue Captain, Storm Face Amulet, 2011 Boris De Beijer, Pink Fighter, 2011 De Beijer’s work is not intrinsically inspired by anything specific, but driven by mystical and romantic urges. “I find myself wanting to create stories and seeing symbolism in a wide range of (contemporary) events and objects. I build a sort of
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This essay was first delivered as a talk at SOFA NY in May 2011. The Museum of Art and Design’s exhibition, Crafting Modernism: Midcentury Art and Design (opening in October 2011) features over 20 jewelers. Some are well known, such as Alexander Calder, while others have been resurrected from obscurity and brought forward for re-evaluation.
For People Who Are Slightly Mad: American Modernist Jewelry Read More »
Ethnographic Collection, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Photo Brigida Gonzalez Modern Collection, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Photo Brigida Gonzalez Modern Collection, Pforzheim Jewellery Museum, Photo Brigida Gonzalez I’m most taken by the potential of precious materials, most struck by how truly debased manufacturing jewelry is in its use of traditional jewelry materials. These objects from the last 500
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Ruudt Peters, Corpus, Galerie Rob Koudijs The large charcoal grey shapes lay camouflaged against the draped black fabric – their nebulous contours and flat surfaces absorbing the light around them. From afar you struggle to assign something recognizable to the indeterminate shapes. Some appear as stark Rorschach tests – perfectly mirrored inkblots, others as corresponding
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