SOFA Chicago. (Or, everyone boards the Titanic.) It would be disingenuous for me to pretend that I don’t have fun at SOFA Chicago. There are great things to be found, but you have to sift a lot of chaff to find it. My assumption has always been that a large volume of the traffic at […]
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Metalsmith magazine’s 2010 exhibition in print was curated by Garth Clark, a writer, curator, historian and ex-dealer gallerist who has been a leading commentator on ceramic practice. Titled Neo-palatial: A Curatorial Imaginarium, Clark’s curatorial conceit is to imagine his exhibition taking place in a faded eighteenth century palace in Europe that used to be occupied
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I was lucky enough to encounter Lisa Gralnick: The Gold Standard in three ways: as a viewer looking at the show; during a private floor talk with Gralnick; and as a reader of the exhibition catalog. A review usually collapses these three stages together, into a seamless text that is informed by many sources of
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Thomas Gentille, Brooch, 2010, eggshell inlay, India ink, metal, 101 x 75 x 13 mm The show at the dynamic four-year old Gallery Loupe includes some sixty Gentille brooches, all created in the last nine years. Thomas Gentille: Twenty-First Century could easily find a home at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, or any top-notch contemporary art
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Fossicking around the internet for information about SOFA Chicago, the big American applied arts fair held on November 5–7, 2010, I came across this report by Lauren Viera in the Chicago Tribune newspaper.
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Ornamentum’s current exhibition, History Repeating II, presents a collection of recent jewelry from Viennese jeweler Petra Zimmermann. This is Zimmermann’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Her work is a reflection on the overlap between art jewelry and fashion, mixing high-couture sensibilities with a twenty-first century ‘mash-up’ aesthetic. In Ornamentum’s newly renovated exhibition space, Zimmermann’s
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The catalog for GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry accomplishes what all exhibition catalogs should. It makes one want to see the exhibition, increases understanding of the subject and supports the intent of the curator. In addition, it broadens the reader’s knowledge of the subject and provokes further interest and discussion. The exhibition, curated by Ursula
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Douglas Harling, Licorice Bee, 22k gold, black coral, ruby, diamond, pearl, ¾ x 1 x ½ inches Natalya Pinchuck, Brooch, wool, copper, enamel, leather, plastic, waxed thread, stainless steel, 14 ¼ X 3 X 2 inches Deb Karash & Lisa Clague, Brooch, Party of three, sterling silver, copper, brass, steel cable, prismacolor, graphite, gesso, 4
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Fluvial erosion is a process that happens in a riverbed where there is motion – sediment accreting – and then a hydraulic action as the water drags across the surface of the bed and scrapes or erodes it. Fluvial erosion comes to mind on encountering John Iversen’s jewelry at Patina Gallery in Santa Fe. You
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Celebrating 70: 70 Years by 70 Artists, published by Lorene Publications and Facèré Jewelry Art Gallery, is like a charming little book of hours, only six-and-a-half inches square. Its purpose is to celebrate as AJF member Karen Lorene, head of Facèré gallery in Seattle, turns 70 on August 19, 2010 and looks back to enjoy the past. The artists
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Silver Line happening in Legnica It is quite a phenomenon, this Legnica Silver Festival. Now in its thirtieth year, it takes place each May and June just as the gloom of late winter and spring explode into early summer. The historic silver-mining town of Legnica in southwest Poland seems to bloom itself as it becomes,
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Installation view, Broochmania, Galerie Rob Koudijs Installation, Broochmania, Galerie Rob Koudijs Unknown Maker, Victorian Hair Locket, 1862, Ghanham Collection, France Campaign Button, 1952, Eisenhower National Historic Site, United States Dutch architect Ward Schrijver was invited to Stockholm to act as a curator for Broochmania. The curatorial experience proved to be a tough one. Absent students
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