I inherited my workspace from my father, a talented Ukrainian icon crafter. He made it personally under the roof of the block of flats we lived in. Now I use this space to make my jewels. Some tools came from my grandfather, who was an artisan, too. This space is for sawing and hammering, soldering […]
Sergey Zhernov, Kiev, Ukraine Read More »
Within our field, which is at its core diverse, there is often a certain set of assumptions on what makers in the field “make”: the wearable object, the handheld object, the adornment object, the commodity object. In this text, and another two short essays, I will investigate emerging makers whose practices conjoin the methodologies of
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“I’m very worried about my body.” —Ted Pikul This is not a movie review. This is sort of about the objects in David Cronenberg’s movie eXistenZ. This is definitely about my weird relationship to creepy facets of biology, and how that somehow relates to a lot more of contemporary jewelry making than you might imagine.
Sculptor Peter Rockwell in his studio in Monteverde, Rome, with a photo of jewelry he had made in the 1960s. Sculptor Peter Rockwell in his studio in Monteverde, Rome, with a photo of jewelry he had made in the 1960s. The first piece by Peter Rockwell that I had seen in person was a necklace.
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2Roses studio encompasses 3,800 square feet and has separate areas for jewelry fabrication, lapidary, machine shop, wood working, and design. The two views presented here are of John and Corliss’s individual workbenches. The organization or seeming lack thereof is a direct reflection of the overall approach to creating that each artist takes. Where Corliss is very methodical
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Museum staff and guests discuss items in display cases at the preview of Maurizio Nannucci’s retrospective exhibition, Where to Start From, at the Museo MAXXI, Rome Museum staff and guests discuss items in display cases at the preview of Maurizio Nannucci’s retrospective exhibition, Where to Start From, at the Museo MAXXI, Rome Does an all-too-familiar
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Art history is a long road where precocities and delays often collide; it’s made of screams and terrible silences. As Henri Focillon wrote once, “[a work of art] is both completely absorbed in the dynamism of time and, at the same time, a universal witness”[1]: forms live through time and space, and history of the
Strato-Sfera: MARGOLIS vs GANCH Read More »
Jeweler Adam Grinovich trying on someone’s Rolex at Schmucksymposium Zimmerhof, Bad Rappenau, Germany Jeweler Adam Grinovich trying on someone’s Rolex at Schmucksymposium Zimmerhof, Bad Rappenau, Germany Toward the end of the Q&A portion of the talk he gave during Zimmerhof 2015, Adam confessed that he had recently acquired a crazy obsession with getting a Rolex.
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My studio is in my home. I live upstairs and I work downstairs. I share my home with more than 500 dead, dried insects as well as my dog, Pumba. I am very happy that I have a cuddly happy living animal amongst all my dead ones. Sometimes I have spiders crawling in my workspace,
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The Jaw Bone mouthpiece is modeled after the jaw of jeweler Shaun Leane, and was created for Alexander McQueen’s untitled spring/summer collection of 1998 (originally called The Golden Shower until a sponsor found out its pornographic meaning and threatened to back out). Hooks around the ears and inside the mouth are used to fasten
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In 2014, Benjamin Lignel visited Māori jewelry artist Areta Wilkinson in her home, a few weeks before she presented her doctoral research in front of her peers and her kin. This introduction to Areta’s work—and Ben’s growing interest in the customary Māori greenstone figure known as hei tiki—led to the purchase, a few months later,
The Sacramento Public Library has a 3-D printing lab. Photo credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times On a recent trip to visit family, this writer was privileged to attend the grand opening of a new local library. While reviewing the map to locate where my nephew could meet Curious George in person, my sister-in-law noted
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