Sophie Hanagarth, French Kiss, 2012, collar, pure iron, leather, 298 mm long, photo: artist Sophie Hanagarth, the recent winner of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation Prize, just opened a much awaited retrospective of her work at CODA Museum, in Apeldoorn. (Prize winners receive a cash prize of 5000 euros, the acquisition of work for […]
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Orly Wexler, Folded Bracelet, 2015, silicone, 22-karat gold, tourmaline, 51 x 51 x 44 mm, photo: artist Orly Wexler is an Israeli jewelry artist and designer who creates effortless, modern jewelry by integrating silicone and rubber seamlessly with precious metal and gemstones. In this interview, we talk about her exhibition, New Jewelry, at Gravers Lane
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Glenda Arentzen, Intertidal Series, brooch, sterling silver, 24-karat gold, natural bloodstone, druzy agate, 51 x 64 mm, photo: Bob Barrett New York’s Aaron Faber Gallery invited 14 jewelers to select a muse and let it inspire a new body of work for their annual fall show. Three distinguished jewelers included in this exhibition—Glenda Arentzen, Janis
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Tatjana and Peter Panyoczki, Untitled, 2015, neckpiece, cardboard, polyurethane, paint, glass beads, stg silver, silk, 70 x 55 x 35, photo: Marcel Tromp The husband-and-wife team of Tatjana and Peter Panyoczki has collaborated on an exhibition at Avid Gallery using the theme of the box. He is a painter, and she is a jeweler, so
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Daphne Krinos, City Necklace (detail), 2015, lightly oxidized silver, tourmaline quartz, diamonds, about 460 mm long, photo: Joel Degen Daphne Krinos is a Greek jeweler living in London and taking full advantage of showing her work in a variety of venues there. She has a solo show in the US at Patina Gallery this month.
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magic language///game of whispers September 10–13, 2015 The Nordic Craft Pavilion, Révélations, Grand Palais, Paris, France Curated by Katrine Borup, Agnieszka Knap, Anna Leoniak, Katarina Siltavuori, and Marianne Zamecznik Exhibition view, magic language///game of whispers, 2015, Nordic Craft Pavilion, Révélations, Grand Palais, Paris, photo: Blog Esprit Design Norwegian curator Marianne Zamecznik is a relative newcomer
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The questions in this interview are loosely inspired by the word pairings published on the exhibition announcement. They are: Corpus • Parallel Investigation• Reflection Activity • Still Objects • Abject Hidden • Reveal Shiny • Dull Volume • Space Missing • Present Skin • Surface Beyond •
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Valdis Brože, Untitled, 2015, ring series, gold-plated silver, mammoth bone, photo: Art Gallery Putti Valdis Brože makes jewelry about the passage of time. His forthcoming exhibition, White Pate, at Latvia’s Art Gallery Putti, features Brože’s series of intricately hewn rings. Each ring reflects minute progression in the artist’s craft: shades of difference realized in careful
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Marc Monzo, Blank Earrings Big, 2015, 18-karat gold, 37 x 15 x 15 mm, photo: artist Known for his insightful forms and well-designed jewelry, Marc Monzo is an artist living and working in Barcelona, Spain. After studying jewelry at the Escola Massana in Barcelona, he has gone on to give numerous lectures and workshops and
Monika Brugger is a fascinating and deep thinker about jewelry. What is its relationship to clothes and to sewing. She makes subtle but provocative work with violent underpinnings. It is quite unusual but thought provoking. In this show called Damage Control at Atta Gallery she pulls together a grouping that draws on memory and on
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Earlier this year, Mia Maljojoki, a Munich-based jewelry artist, spent 24 hours in a Munich subway station “performing” in a project called 1000 Stardust. What started as performance art has now been made over into a window installation at Galerie Spektrum in Munich. 1000 Stardust explores the concept of the equality of every human being
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Moniek Schrijer, Drop, earrings, 2015, white bronze teaspoons, brass, fine silver, each approximately 40 x 25 x 1 mm, photo: artist Moniek Schrijer is a jewelry artist hailing from New Zealand. With a background in printmaking and jewelry, Schrijer experiments with the intersection of the two fields through a humorous lens. Pearl Ear, her exhibition
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