Wallace Chan, Stilled Life, brooch, titanium, imperial jadeite, lavender jadeite, ruby, diamond, fancy colored diamond, 60 x 170 x 50 mm, photo: courtesy of Wallace Chan, Hong Kong In the fine jewelry realm, Amanda Triossi is a well-known jewelry historian who has worked at Sotheby’s and Bulgari during her prolific and multifaceted career. In this […]
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Rirkrit Tiravanija, Soup/No Soup, 2012, Grand Palais, Paris, during which the artist transformed part of the Grand Palais into a huge, twelve-hour banquet serving only Tom Kha soup, photo: Marc Sanchez “In reaction against commodification in the art world, the relational paradigm read art in terms of its audience relations. The artist was no longer
Kathleen Faulkner, Night Life, 2016, shadow box with two brooches/pendants, sterling silver, oil pastel, colored pencil, mica, glass lens, block: 178 x 178 x 44.4 mm, brooches: 50.8 mm and 69.8 mm wide, photo: artist Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery recently presented Nocturne, an exhibition of new work by Kathleen Faulkner exploring her visions of the
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Jasmin Matzakow, Base Unit: Object, 2016, necklace, tattooed linden wood, sawed silver, 250 x 400 x 200 mm, photo: Bettina Schwalm In Jasmin Matzakow’s body x necklace x intention = base unit, currently on show at Galerie Ra, words are equally as important as the work exhibited and foreground a tighter focus, in the artist’s
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Why and how do people and institutions collect contemporary objects, whether design, art, ceramics, textiles, wood, or jewelry? The answers to these questions are of course manifold, but one thing is for sure: There is big difference between private and public collecting in the US and Europe, and the art and design fairs are playing
Marion Fulk wearing pieces by (clockwise, from top left): Idiots, David Bielander, Jennifer Trask, and Hanna Hedman, photo: Laura Smoller Marion Fulk is an avid and discerning jewelry collector. She happily travels the world from her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, in search of new jewelry discoveries. She prefers extensive walking and navigating of public
Current Obsessions founder Marina Elenskaya and managing director Sarah Mesritz, photo: Sam Bynens Current Obsession (CO) is a cross-disciplinary platform and independent magazine with a special interest in contemporary jewelry. CO started off as a blog in 2009. It was managed by Marina Elenskaya (Russia), who at that time was a jewelry student at the
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Onecklace, Circle Monogram Initials necklace, 2012, sterling silver, 25 x 25 mm, photo: Onecklace Onecklace specializes in individually made jewelry pieces, hand crafted to customers’ specifications. They launched in 2012, have met with a lot of success, and became a corporate sponsor of AJF this year, for which we are very grateful. The founder and
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From left to right: Heng Lee, Yung-Huei Chao, Han-Chieh (Joy) Chuang, Ying-Hsun (Zita) Hsu, Mei-Fang Chiang, Wen-Miao Yeh, Cai-Xuan Wu (Molly), Ying-Hsiu Chen, photo: anonymous 886 Bench is a collective of 10 emerging jewelry artists from Taiwan, a subtropical island known for its semiconductor chips and complicated relationship with China. The group has exhibited at
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Piret Hirv at her bench, photo: Urmas Lüüs Piret Hirv is one of the standard-bearers of Estonian jewelry. International audiences will identify her as part of the trail-blazing õhuLoss collective, and will know her powerfully melancholy low-reliefs in silver: paper-thin silver shrouds draped over passing souls. I met Piret on a trip to Estonia in
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The Narva Art Residency (entrance hall), Narva, Estonia, photo: Liina Lelov KAФEDRA: Exhibition by the Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing April 30–May 29, 2016 Narva Art Residency, Narva, Estonia KAФEDRA is a multifaceted exhibition showcasing the work of the department of jewelry and blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts. It was organized by Kadri
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Nikki Couppee, Diffraction Necklace, 2016, Plexiglas, brass, leather, film, 216 x 178 x 6 mm, photo: artist The jewelry of Oakland-based Florida native Nikki Couppee employs vibrant colors and illusory surfaces that simultaneously evoke preciousness while coyly giving it the finger. In this conversation, Couppee discusses the underlying nostalgic impulses and material fascinations in her
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