Marianne Anselin, Plier, 2013, cuff and rings, sterling silver, gold, patinated iron, height of cuff 130 mm, photo: Elsa Vanier French jewelry artist Marianne Anselin prefers iron, rusted patinated steel, and cast iron as her materials of choice, forging them into detailed impressions of leaves, shells, and other shapes borrowed from nature. Inspired by walks […]
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Panjapol Kulpapangkorn, Jewellery Is at My Feet/The Show Is Yours, project launched in 2012, memory containers from participants, memory objects in clear plastic bags, mixed media, size of container: 110 x 130 mm, photo: artist For Panjapol Kulpapangkorn, building community, working with memory, and getting to know people from distant places through his participatory project,
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(left) April Higashi, Tidepool Pendant, 2016, oxidized silver, 508 mm; (right) Joshua Wendler, Springbok Antelope Skull Ring, 2016, 18-karat gold-plated silver, 6 x diameter 20 mm, photo: Shibumi Gallery Shibumi Gallery, in Berkeley, has just opened an exhibition “for men,” looking to address its male patrons’ reticence toward ornaments. This is an exhibition that started with
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Damselfrau, Liorin, 2015, mask, mixed media, selfie Magnhild Kennedy, a.k.a. Damselfrau, is a Norwegian artist living in London. A self-taught maker of masks, Kennedy dances on the blurry lines of fashion, design, and craft, a space she isn’t wanting to define. Although she doesn’t consider herself a jeweler, her work has a strong dialogue
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(left) Ketli Tiitsar, Second Nature V, 2016, brooch, ash wood, silver, pigment, 156 x 57 x 14 mm, photo: Tanel Veenre; (right) Sofia Hallik, Homeosis II, 2015, pendant, 18-karat gold, rubber, 132 x 34 x 34 mm, photo: Andrey Kulpin The roots of the ESTONISHING! exhibition start in Estonia, where in 1999 seven Estonian jewelry
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(left) Nellie Peoples, Take the Lead, 2016, brooches, sterling silver, stainless steel, 30 x 20 mm; (right) Zoe Brand, What You Have Here Is a Genuine, Quality, Brand, 2016, set of three charms, GENUINE: painted aluminum, QUALITY: sterling silver, BRAND: 24-karat gold-plated sterling silver, 82 x 30 mm, photo: Bilk Gallery Nellie Peoples and Zoe
Vered Kaminski, Untitled, 2006, brooches, cement, sand, stones, stainless steel, 30 x 90 x 20 mm, photo: artist Vered Kaminski is perhaps the most recognized and influential Israeli jewelry artist. She has a decades-long career as an educator. Her jewelry is internationally renowned, and she is the recipient of numerous awards—including her recent acclaim as
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Wallace Chan, Stilled Life, brooch, titanium, imperial jadeite, lavender jadeite, ruby, diamond, fancy colored diamond, 60 x 170 x 50 mm, photo: courtesy of Wallace Chan, Hong Kong In the fine jewelry realm, Amanda Triossi is a well-known jewelry historian who has worked at Sotheby’s and Bulgari during her prolific and multifaceted career. In this
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Kathleen Faulkner, Night Life, 2016, shadow box with two brooches/pendants, sterling silver, oil pastel, colored pencil, mica, glass lens, block: 178 x 178 x 44.4 mm, brooches: 50.8 mm and 69.8 mm wide, photo: artist Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery recently presented Nocturne, an exhibition of new work by Kathleen Faulkner exploring her visions of the
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Jasmin Matzakow, Base Unit: Object, 2016, necklace, tattooed linden wood, sawed silver, 250 x 400 x 200 mm, photo: Bettina Schwalm In Jasmin Matzakow’s body x necklace x intention = base unit, currently on show at Galerie Ra, words are equally as important as the work exhibited and foreground a tighter focus, in the artist’s
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Marion Fulk wearing pieces by (clockwise, from top left): Idiots, David Bielander, Jennifer Trask, and Hanna Hedman, photo: Laura Smoller Marion Fulk is an avid and discerning jewelry collector. She happily travels the world from her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, in search of new jewelry discoveries. She prefers extensive walking and navigating of public
Current Obsessions founder Marina Elenskaya and managing director Sarah Mesritz, photo: Sam Bynens Current Obsession (CO) is a cross-disciplinary platform and independent magazine with a special interest in contemporary jewelry. CO started off as a blog in 2009. It was managed by Marina Elenskaya (Russia), who at that time was a jewelry student at the
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