Exterior photograph, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, California, photo: Mike Holmes Missy Graff: What is your background with contemporary art jewelry? What led you to be a dealer? Elizabeth Shypertt: I studied jewelry making starting in high school and continued with night classes when I returned to San Francisco after college. Mike and I met […]
Lawrence Woodford’s show, Way Finding at the L. A. Pai Gallery in Ottawa is an expression of his poetic love of nature and the stones that represent it. Held in place with a jewelers prong these rough rocks depict his ideas of utopia. Susan Cummins: Lawrence, in your statement about this show, you say it
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Seth Papac is a modern-day Renaissance man who divides his time among his full jewelry production line, teaching at San Diego State University, and developing comprehensive collections of art. Papac has exhibited internationally—from the Netherlands to Vienna to France—and is a recipient of the prestigious Louis Tiffany Comfort Foundation Award. In this interview, he talks
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The Munsteiner family is famous for the wildly innovative stone cutting they have been doing now for a couple of generations. De Novo hosted a trunk show with them in June featuring both their stones and the jewelry created by this extraordinary family of jewelers. There isn’t too much available online about them so this
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Galerie Rosemarie Jäger is having a series of shows of work by couples who are both jewelers. This current one is the 99th show the gallery has held since it began in 1989, and includes not only the couple Helen Britton and David Bielander, but also their studio mate, Yutaka Minegishi, so it was called
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Reinstein|Ross Gallery and the i-i team up to align the worlds of art jewelry and street art in a novel exhibition, Placement. In this interview, Bella Neyman of Reinstein|Ross Gallery and Will Atkinson and JB Jones of the i-i talk about the origin of the crossover exhibition and the similarities between the two fields. Olivia
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Lauren Tickle’s exhibition Is It Legal? is on display at Four in Gothenburg, Sweden. In this interview, Lauren discusses her concept of value, the different ways she has explored it, and the labor that goes into creating her intricately crafted pieces. Missy Graff: Can you please tell me about your background? What inspired you to
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The phrase “between the lines” conjures all kinds of associations—from films, songs, albums and books of the same name—to its definition of inferring meaning that’s not explicitly stated—to a literal reference to the use of line in making. Interpreting this theme, Between the Lines, for the current show at Taboo Studio, was the task of
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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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