North by Northwest: The Jewelry of Laurie Hall
By Susan Cummins and Damian Skinner
Overview
For more than four decades, Laurie Hall has been making stories the subject of her work. Her playful and funny jewelry beset with found objects is about the places she lives and the landscapes that fill her imagination, about her family history and different ideas of what it is to be an American.
As a jeweler, Hall never plays it safe, preferring to fly by the seat of her pants and push her skills and technical knowledge. She amuses herself and, in the process, amuses the wearer and viewer. She is a product of the jewelry histories that make the Pacific Northwest unique within the larger story of American contemporary jewelry. Featuring 58 images of Hall’s jewelry spanning the period from 1974 to 2019, this book explores why she is an important maker whose practice deserves to be more widely known. This is the story of Laurie Hall’s jewelry.
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Dead Souls: Desire and Memory in the Jewelry of Keith Lewis
By Damian Skinner
Overview
Since the late 1980s, American jeweler Keith Lewis (*1959) has been consistently tackling issues of Queer identity and politics in his figurative and narrative jewelry, including a groundbreaking series of memorial jewels addressing the impact of the AIDS crisis on himself and his community. Often witty, sometimes shocking, frequently erotic, and surprisingly moving, his jewelry is an act of remembering and witnessing, and a joyous assertion that desire and pleasure, wonderful ends in themselves, can collapse historical distance and connect the past and the present. Written by Damian Skinner and featuring four of Lewis’s artist talks documenting key preoccupations and series, this monograph surveys a bold, provocative, and ambitious body of work that deserves to be widely known.
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Best of Interviews
By Art Jewelry Forum, edited by Benjamin Lignel
Overview
We culled 18 provocative conversations with luminaries in the field from the interviews we have published with luminaries in this field since we began reporting more than 25 years ago. These interviews underscore the importance of art jewelry and its place on the contemporary jewelry spectrum.
Interviews: Dr. Madeleine Albright, Gijs Bakker, Jamie Bennett, Lola Brooks, Helen Drutt English, Iris Eichenberg, Clo Fleiss, Warwick Freeman, Matthew Friday & Kerianne Quick, Ursula Ilse-Neuman, Yevgeniya Kaganovitch, Sally Marsland, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Helena and Lasse Pahlman, Sienna Patti, Bruce Pepich, Lindsay Pollock, Dorothea Prühl, 2Roses, Tanel Veenre
Contributors: Rachel Carren, Gabriel Craig, Susan Cummins, Aaron Decker, Iris Eichenberg, Benedikt Fischer, Benjamin Lignel, Jillian Moore, Damian Skinner, and AJF members
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On and Off: Jewelry in the Wider Cultural Field
By Art Jewelry Forum
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Contemporary jewelry is defined by its range of cultural references and willingness to tackle contentious issues.On and Off depicts this conversation between incorporated social norms and creative agendas, exploring the phenomena that inform and complicate jewelry’s history—sex, domination, self-identification, territory, death. In reporting on contemporary practice, the book examines jewelry’s provocative place in human affairs. Thirty short essays present jewelry in the wider cultural realm. About half focus on individual works, while the others engage with jewelry’s agency in the social, political, and private spheres. The collection invites some of the meatier topics to the jewelry table: cultural appropriation, social engineering, political propaganda, or jewelry-mediated empowerment.
Essays by: David Beytelmann, Nigel Borell, Monika Brugger, Cécile Bulté, Susan Cohn, Anna Conticello, Liesbeth den Besten, Rutger Emmelkamp, Julie Ewington, Mònica Gaspar, Stephen Knott, Marthe Le Van, Baptiste Lignel, Jillian Moore, Stephen Mulqueen, Elisabeth Murphy, Kevin Murray, Kerianne Quick, Suzanne Ramljak, Amina Rizwan, Damian Skinner, Emily Stoehrer, Timothy Information Limited, Namita Gupta Wiggers, and Marilyn Zapf
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