This month Jewelers’Werk Galerie in Washington DC is showing the work of Iris Boedmer, the German jeweler from Pforzheim. Ellen Reiben has been in the jewelry business a long time. She has had the gallery since 1988 when she took it over from the founder, Dutch jeweler Joke van Ommen. I asked both Ellen and […]
Thursday March 15, 2012 Munich is known as die stadt der lebensfreude, the city filled with the joy of life – and with the bonus of welcome, sunny weather it was a pleasure to be in the Bavarian capital while Schmuck was on. Olga Zobel-Biró showing work by Lisa Walker Gallery Biró, our first stop,
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Ulrich Reithofer, Holy Wish Bone Susan Cummins: Please tell me where you went to school and where you are now. Ulrich Reithofer: I was in a technical college for civil engineering in Austria during the 1990s and in 1998 I entered Fachhochschule Trier, Fachbereich Idar- Oberstein in Germany where I learned gemstone cutting and jewelry
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crafthaus is an online community with close to 2000 members. Brigitte Martin, who is the originator of crafthaus and keeps all their balls in the air, is also a gallery member of AJF. crafthaus is a place for professional craft artists to display their work and connect internationally across all fields of interest. Each month,
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Portrait of Marjan Unger Favorites Owned and One That Got Away ‘You must be Dorthea Prühl,’ two young women said to me in Munich this year. Well . . . Dorthea is at least a full head shorter than I, she has a round face and short hair without curls, while I have curly hair
Iris Eichenberg, Black Birds, 2011, copper, beads, 102 x 89 x 64 mm, Collection of Susan Beech, Photo: Réka Fekete At its most basic level, Monomater posed a challenge to current Cranbrook students in the metalsmithing department and a few select alumni: think differently about contemporary jewelry. Eichenberg’s concept involved asking them to create a cogent statement
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Ivan and Allison Barnett, photo credit: Sergio Salvador Portrait of Ford and Forlano Steve Ford: David and I were assigned adjacent studio spaces at Tyler/Rome in 1984 and had similar work habits. We both liked to work until the building closed at midnight. We’d then walk back to our pensione, stopping at Giolliti’s near the
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Elyse Zorn Karlin loves jewelry, usually traditional or historical jewelry and she has dedicated herself to curating and writing about it. Along with Yvonne Markowitz from the MFA Boston, she is the founder of the Association for the Study of Jewelry and Related Arts (ASJRA). She also is their trip organizer, the editor of their biweekly newsletter and their quarterly magazine. ASJRA is dedicated to the advancement of jewelry studies. This organization and AJF have worked together on several projects and AJF asked Elyse to join with Ursula Ilse-Neumann, MAD curator to lead a walkthrough of the SOFA New York show on April 21, 2012. Ursula and Elyse picked their favorite pieces from the jewelry galleries showing at the fair and explained their choices. I have asked Elyse about her favorite piece to add to our series of Curator Choices.
My Jade Ring
My favorite piece of jewelry is a jade ring which I wear every day. It was given to me a number of years ago by a dear friend and I feel naked without it. The ring’s design is carved into real jadeite – one of the two stones collectively known as jade. The highly three-dimensional design features a carved bat, known as fu in Chinese and a symbol of good luck and two peaches. The depiction of double peaches is a symbol for long life.
Inside the Silver, Blue and Gold Gallery Susan Cummins- Did you name your gallery after the song Silver, Blue and Gold by Bad Company? How did you come by the name? Karin Worden- Well, yes, but I rarely admit it! I spent the first year telling people it was because the jewelry shown was silver
Meghan Patrice Riley, Interstitial, 2011, metal, 12 x 15 x 0.25 inches, Photo: Toky Photography Mari Ishikawa, Parallel World, 2011, silver, Japanese kozo paper, 3.5 x 3.3 x 1.75 inches, Photo: Dirk Eisel Daniel DiCaprio, Colony Necklace, 2011, ebony, silver, 12 x 8 x 2 inches, Photo: Taylor Dabney Elizabeth Raphael The show is documented
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Facere Gallery Susan Cummins: Karen, I know you have written a tell-all book called Building a Business, Building a Life: A Memoir and Workbook, but can you give me a condensed history of your background? How did you become interested in jewelry and what led you to start the gallery? Cover of Building a Business,
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Outside of Galerie Pont and Plas Susan Cummins: Can you describe your background as a jeweler? Gesine Hackenberg portrait Was there a particular teacher or artist that influenced you? I guess Iris Eichenberg, who was one of my teachers at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, has influenced me most in my way of working and looking
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