Jessica Calderwood, Buckstalker Muzzleloader, 2012, Brooch, enamel on copper, sterling silver, recycled patterned copper, stainless steel, 1 x 3.75 inches Susan Cummins: I understand that you feature antique and contemporary jewelry in your gallery and have an interest in both. Do you ever organize exhibitions that combine the antique and contemporary jewelry? If so please […]
Mari Shaw My Favorite Either I am very fickle or very full-hearted, because whatever piece of jewelry I am wearing is my favorite. However fascinated I am by a piece lying in a beautiful case, my experience of the displayed jewelry does not compare with the magic of the one surrounding my neck, attached to
Renee Bevan, Parting Breath, Pendant, 2012, silver, electroformed balloon, spraypaint, 460 x 60 x 40 mm Susan Cummins: Since the earthquake destroyed your building, where are you presenting this show of new work by Renee Bevan? Caroline Billing: I recently set up the gallery in a new space with other creative businesses in one of
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April Higashi, Owner of Shibumi Gallery Susan Cummins: I know we have worked together in the past, but please refresh my memory about how you got to be the owner of a jewelry gallery. April Higashi: I’ve been making jewelry for twenty years. Even in the beginning when I was first starting to make jewelry,
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Mill Valley, CA, June 21, 2012—The Art Jewelry Form (AJF) has increased the amount of the cash award to be given this year to the winner of the Emerging Artist Award (EAA) competition. This is the thirteenth year that AJF will be providing a cash award to a contemporary jewelry artist. The amount of the
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Amsterdam must have more jewelry galleries per capita than any other place on earth and some of them, like Galerie Louise Smit, have been around for more than 25 years. This gallery helped to create an audience for contemporary jewelry both locally and internationally. Luckily for us, Monika Zampa has kept the gallery alive as Louise Smit retired. Best wishes to Louise and Robert Smit and may you enjoy the less frantic pace of your retired lives. In the meantime I wanted to know more about what Monika was planning.
Susan Cummins: You are a fairly new owner of a very old gallery. Can you tell us about how the transition took place between you and Louise Smit?
Monika Zampa: In the past I used to work in London as an investment banker, project manager and a deputy director for medium size company. Then I moved to Amsterdam, changed my life and started to study conceptual jewelry at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. In my last years of the studies, I realized that my combination of financial/organizational skills and passion for conceptual jewelry was rather unique. I thought that it could be perfectly applied in running the gallery. I approached Louise and offered my skills and knowledge if she would consider having a business partner. We started to talk, got to know each other and had lots of good times. Our cooperation began in September 2010 with the idea that I would be able to run the gallery on my own by 2011.
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Benjamin Lignel, Bracito de Oro, 2011, mixed media, photo: Jonathan Keenan Susan Cummins: You are famous for your informative website, Klimt02.net. Please tell me the story of how and why you started it. Leo Caballero: I learned about this kind of jewelry in the 1990s by visiting a very good gallery in Barcelona called Positvra,
Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h Susan Cummins: Noel, in the May AJF newsletter you talked about your recent move to a larger space. Congratulations! You have been in the business for sixteen years and I am wondering if you can tell me how the contemporary jewelry field has changed during that time. Noel Guymarc’h: From the beginning,
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Otto Kunzli, Himmel II, 2009, stainless steel, 121 x 60 x 12 mm How adept is contemporary jewelry at negotiating a world in flux? Making the most of flux requires fluidity, an ability to embrace movement and change with ease and grace. The opposite of fluidity is fixity, a quality that, in the globalized world
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Agita Putane and Maris Sustins Susan Cummins: Congratulations on being AJF’s first Latvian gallery. Agita Putane: I am excited and happy about it. This is the best birthday present for our gallery. I would like to thank you for this fantastic opportunity. This is a great chance to tell the world that Latvian jewelry designers
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Susan Cummins ‘What is your favorite piece of jewelry and how does it reflect your whole collection?’ I am thrilled to answer the question. In truth I have many favorite pieces of jewelry that are held in a trust called the Rotasa Collection Trust. But I rarely get the chance to talk about any of
Lola Brooks, charted territories (installation view), photo: Lola Brooks Susan Cummins: Where did you study? Did you have a mentor there? Lola Brooks: I studied with Myra MImlitsch-Gray and James Bennett at SUNY New Paltz, where I got my BFA. It was inspiring to work with two professors who were as engaged in their
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