Daniel Kruger, Necklace, 2014, silver, acrylic, pigment, 540 mm long, largest element: 85 x 85 mm, photo Udo W. Beier Olga Zobel is the director of Galerie Biró, a gallery that serves as a benchmark in the field. A pivotal player in the establishment of Munich as the European capital of contemporary jewelry, Zobel is also […]
Vanessa Arthur, Lost Pin Collection, 2016, wet cement slab, buffed vessel and pins, cement, copper, sterling silver, stone, brass, 9-karat gold, thermo-set paint, various dimensions, photo: artist I have admired Vanessa Arthur’s work for a while—she is part of New Zealand’s New Generation of Jewelers (one hesitates to capitalize, but it does feel like a
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(left) Karen Rotenberg wearing Réka Fekete, Untitled, 2012, brooch, wood, enameled steel, found object, zinc paint, silver, 75 x 115 mm, photo: Michael Rotenberg; (right) Michael Rotenberg wearing Chrisoula Papahatzi, Returning Home, 2015, brooch, steel, 90 x 50 x 20 mm, photo: Karen Rotenberg Karen and Michael Rotenberg are an elegant and distinctive presence on
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Collage of the 2016 top-10 finalists, courtesy of Halstead Halstead, a family-run wholesale importer and distributor of jewelry findings, and a corporate sponsor of AJF, just announced the 2016 winner of its yearly award to be Niki Grandics. AJF’s editor takes the opportunity to catch up with company president Hilary Halstead Scott to ask her
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Motoko Furuhashi and Demitra Thomloudis, Site #2, 2016, brooch, nickel silver, brass, silver, land segment, ink jet print, gesso, 100 x 110 x 45 mm, photo: Motoko Furuhashi Leading us down the road to the heart of the country, where the artists live, CrossPASS is an exhibition of both collaborative and individual jewels by Demitra
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Masako Onodera, My Dear, 2015, stole, repurposed fur coat, oxidized parts from silver-plated coffee pot, thread, 305 x 178 x 1,270 mm, photo: artist Shadow Themes, the brainchild of writer and educator Marjorie Simon and jewelry artist Biba Schutz, is a group exhibition at Reinstein|Ross that peers into the intuitive minds and fluid studio practices
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Henriette Schuster, Conglomerates, 2016, rings, silver, blackened silver, gold, largest 35 x 25 x 20 mm, photo: artist Now in its second iteration, the Mari Funaki Award for Contemporary Jewellery is an international biennial award founded in memory of the life and legacy of its namesake, Australian artist Mari Funaki. In this interview, Katie Scott,
Anna Lindsay MacDonald, brooch, 2014, sterling silver, acrylic, freshwater pearl, enamel, 90 x 90 x 15 mm, photo: artist Anna Lindsay MacDonald, a jewelry artist based in Canada, explores a multitude of paradoxes. MacDonald examines the reverence for tradition and allure of luxury versus the disdain for commercial pandering to the masses. She explores concepts
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Exhibition view, Conceptual Jewellery, 2011, Mākslas galerija Putti, Rīga, Latvia, photo: Līga Ērkšķe Leaving Colombia to train for a highly successful career in international business before enrolling at the Massana school in Barcelona, Nicolas Estrada brought new life and light to the world of art jewelry through his entrepreneurial endurance, his alliance with the world
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Gillion Carrara in the library of the Arts Club of Chicago (cropped), photo: Quinn Wharton Gillion Carrara walks an exciting career path that zigzags between fashion and metalsmithing: She teaches the one, practices the other, and in her pieces she seems to actively resist fashion’s “commitment to risk, subversion and irregular forward movement,”[1] preferring instead
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Sharon Church, Watching Juniper, 2016, pendant neckpiece, Styrofoam, paper clay, acrylic paint, mica, polyurethane coating, oxidized sterling, diamond rondel, handmade chain, detachable pendant: two balls: white = 54 mm diameter, dark = 67 mm diameter, diamond rondel = 9 mm diameter, chain and clasp, exclusive of pendant = 708 mm, photo: Ken Yanoviak My first
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Ame Gallery, photo: Andy Kwan Former interior architect Anna Cheng was all set to enter the family business selling traditional fine jewelry in the competitive Hong Kong market. But fate intervened. While traveling through Europe and the US, Cheng was exposed to contemporary art jewelry, fell in love with it, and the rest, as they
