Exterior and interior view, Gallery O, Seoul, Korea, photo: Gallery O Founded in 2001, Gallery O is a leading gallery in South Korea for local and international contemporary jewelry. Its founder, jewelry artist Miwha Oh, holds degrees in metalsmithing, museum studies, and gemology, and has applied her extensive education to raising the visibility of contemporary […]
This is the way Zimmerhof works: A core group of five people (the hosts) invites a team of willing organizers—which tends to self-select every year—to put together the program for the next edition. The organizers pick the theme, think up a groovy line-up of speakers, get worried that they won’t show up, are reassured three
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Patina Gallery sits in the historic museum district of Santa Fe, 2015, photo: Peter Ogilvie Eighteen-year-old Patina Gallery was an early champion of European studio jewelers and has been particularly adept at creating cultural synergies with the vibrant local scene in New Mexico: For the second year in a row, their summer exhibition features work
Exhibition view, Ai Weiwei—Rebar in Gold and gallery collaborations, 2016, work in foreground by Ai Weiwei, Elisabetta Cipriani Jewellery by Contemporary Artists, Design Miami/Basel 2016, courtesy of the gallery As a curator of contemporary art, I am used to going to art fairs: Not to collect per se—even though I am always looking for acquisitions
Alternatives Gallery, view of the façade, Rome, photo: Andrea Lombardo Alternatives Gallery, located in the historical center of Rome, has met the challenge of selling to a relatively conservative clientele by being remarkably proactive in promoting itself and the field on a national and international level, and by launching no-gram, the first online gallery devoted
Placement, a collaboration between art jewelers and street artists, May 2015, Gallery at Reinstein|Ross, New York, photo: Andrew Schloss Bella Neyman is the director of the Gallery at Reinstein|Ross in New York, which specializes in contemporary jewelry. With a background in arts administration and several critically acclaimed exhibitions under her belt, she mixes writing and curating,
Janna Syvänoja, Untitled, 2014, necklace, recycled paper, steel wire, 250 x 220 x 75 mm, photo: artist Janna Syvänoja is a Finnish artist who, by a slow and meditative process, creates art jewelry from recycled paper. Using such fragile material, she is able to create depth in form, each slice meticulously layered by hand. Often
(from left to right) Aaron Patrick Decker, Soft, 2015, brooch, wool, nickel, silver, white gold, 30 x 40 x 2.5 mm; Campaign 2, 2015, brooch, white gold, army blanket wool, nickel silver, 100 x 30 x 10 mm; Tiny, 2016, brooch, leather, nickel, silver, 30 x 30 x 32.5 mm, photo: courtesy of the artist
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AJF Ambassadors Program AJF Hangouts takes the pulse of the rapidly expanding world of global art jewelry. We hear from voices in emerging jewelry scenes, featuring those with the responsibility of representing their country as AJF Ambassadors. Despite the varying quality of video feeds, it’s quite amazing that we can now use this platform to
This brief essay was originally published in Damian Skinner’s book Contemporary Jewelry in Perspective.▲ Jewelry accompanies the individual into the public space and into the crowd. It’s in the street that jewelry operates in the tension between the personal and the public, at once an object of private use and an object with an immense
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Liz Clark, Magnolia Laurel, 2016, necklace, steel, sterling silver, 584 x 76 mm, photo: Arthur Hash As a former marine biology major and current jewelry artist, Liz Clark finds inspiration in flowers, which accompany us through life events and speak for us when words fail. For her exhibition at Heidi Lowe Gallery, Clark counter-intuitively pairs
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Strange Pleasures workshop, 2014, Edgbaston Community Centre, Birmingham, UK, photo: Toni Mayner Every once in a while, I receive an essay or a post that provides some insight into how people not “native” to contemporary jewelry might see it: what use that have for it, and what it can do to them. Siân Hindle, a
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