Avid Gallery is a recent addition to our list of galleries representing studio jewelers. It’s new to us, but has been around for many years. The new owner, Judith Carswell, gives us a bit of its history and her thoughts on the gallery and contemporary jewelry. New Zealand is emerging as a strong presence and […]
Melanie Isverding’s solo exhibition, In Other Smiles, was recently presented by Gallery Loupe at The Gallery at Reinstein/Ross. In this interview, Melanie discusses the process behind her meticulously crafted forms and how they relate to her questioning of values. She also provides us with a background story about a community tradition she grew up with,
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Thierry Vendome is a jeweler who shows his own work in a gallery connected to his studio in Paris. For this AJF interview, he was gracious enough to answer some questions about his work and how he approaches making his unique designs. Susan Cummins: What is the story of your early connection to jewelry? Thierry
Morphogenesis, Mi-Ah Rödiger’s exhibition at Galerie Rob Koudijs, is a sensory banquet overflowing with symbolic forms, pulled from nature and translated into Mi-Ah’s idiosyncratic aesthetic. In this interview, we talk about how Mi-Ah defines aspects of human nature through jewelry. Exhibition view, Over the Rainbow, 2012, Mi-Ah Rödiger, Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, Netherlands, photo: artist
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Born in Germany and now living in the UK, Simone ten Hompel is known for her metalwork that navigates the metaphorical depth of everyday vessels such as spoons and plates. Currently a Reader for Metal, Jewellery and Silversmithing at London Metropolitan University, Simone has exhibited metalwork internationally, given lectures on craft and metalsmithing, and participated
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Marthe Roberts/Shea took a long time to get to become a jeweler. Her show at Gravers Lane Gallery in Philadelphia is her first one with them, and displays a kind of jewelry that can look ancient or like something from an archeological dig. It has the look of something old but also maybe futuristic. Have
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Maureen Faye-Chauhan is an Australian jeweler who creates sophisticated geometric structures that play with optical illusion, light, and volume. Influenced by the rural Australian bushland and Asian culture and philosophy, her work marries the use of technology with precision hand work to create jewelry of steel forms and patterns. Her current solo show, Concurrence, is
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Pat Flynn is a master metalsmith and a meticulous craftsman whose work is all about dichotomies and contrasts—blacksmithing and goldsmithing, iron and gold, nails and diamonds—and combining them into organic jewelry forms that are at once rough-hewn yet sensuous. Raised on a dairy farm in rural Pennsylvania, he captures images and memories from his childhood
Emmanuel Lacoste’s exhibition The Seven Deadly Sins showed his provocative and sinful work at Art Gallery Putti last month. In this interview, Emmanuel describes the inspiration for his series and the close relationship between adornment and his work. Missy Graff: Tell us about the seven deadly sins. Is the temptation or passion to own jewelry
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“Stay curious, and a pure idea will automatically come to you.”—Sigurd Bronger Known for his juxtapositions of contradictory objects— such as a heavy-duty metal clamp holding a goose egg —Sigurd Bronger trained as a goldsmith but found his calling in constructing wonderfully absurd contemporary jewelry. In this interview on the occasion of his exhibition at
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Jonathan Wahl showed his large charcoal drawings at the Pulse fair last month with Lenox, Massachusetts-based Sienna Gallery. Jonathan was trained as a jeweler but explains how he became interested in drawing instead, and the conflicts he encountered along the way. His work is beautiful and the story is a tale filled with intriguing twists
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Winfried Krüger is showing his most recent work at Galerie Marzee after receiving the Marzee Prize four years ago. This prize also allowed him to produce a monograph with Arnoldsche documenting his progress as a progressive jeweler for the past 50 years. He is an important jeweler and it is wonderful to have this beautiful
