Sharon Church, Watching Juniper, 2016, pendant neckpiece, Styrofoam, paper clay, acrylic paint, mica, polyurethane coating, oxidized sterling, diamond rondel, handmade chain, detachable pendant: two balls: white = 54 mm diameter, dark = 67 mm diameter, diamond rondel = 9 mm diameter, chain and clasp, exclusive of pendant = 708 mm, photo: Ken Yanoviak My first […]
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Janna Syvänoja, Untitled, 2014, necklace, recycled paper, steel wire, 250 x 220 x 75 mm, photo: artist Janna Syvänoja is a Finnish artist who, by a slow and meditative process, creates art jewelry from recycled paper. Using such fragile material, she is able to create depth in form, each slice meticulously layered by hand. Often
(from left to right) Aaron Patrick Decker, Soft, 2015, brooch, wool, nickel, silver, white gold, 30 x 40 x 2.5 mm; Campaign 2, 2015, brooch, white gold, army blanket wool, nickel silver, 100 x 30 x 10 mm; Tiny, 2016, brooch, leather, nickel, silver, 30 x 30 x 32.5 mm, photo: courtesy of the artist
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Liz Clark, Magnolia Laurel, 2016, necklace, steel, sterling silver, 584 x 76 mm, photo: Arthur Hash As a former marine biology major and current jewelry artist, Liz Clark finds inspiration in flowers, which accompany us through life events and speak for us when words fail. For her exhibition at Heidi Lowe Gallery, Clark counter-intuitively pairs
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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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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) 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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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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From left to right: Heng Lee, Yung-Huei Chao, Han-Chieh (Joy) Chuang, Ying-Hsun (Zita) Hsu, Mei-Fang Chiang, Wen-Miao Yeh, Cai-Xuan Wu (Molly), Ying-Hsiu Chen, photo: anonymous 886 Bench is a collective of 10 emerging jewelry artists from Taiwan, a subtropical island known for its semiconductor chips and complicated relationship with China. The group has exhibited at
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