Jorge Castañón, Las Madrigueras, 2007, necklace, ebony, itin wood, eucalyptus, linen, 210 x 450 x 20 mm, photo: artist Jorge Castañón is a significant jeweler in Argentina. He has developed his work both as a jeweler and as a craft master, springing from a traditional craftsmanship approach to contemporary jewelry. In 1990 he founded the […]
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Travis Chantar, (left) Julian Woodhouse, 2015; (right) Ledom, 2015, both from Tribe by Chantar Cut flowers are an iconic representation of ephemerality, the cycle of beauty and the process of death. Flowers and Tribes, two photographic series by New-York-based Travis Chantar, depict young, nude sitters adorned with ephemeral petal arrangements and body-paintings. I was
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Debbie Adamson, (left) Pine Necklace, 2016, laminated vinyl, rubber cord, 150 x 150 x 11 mm (not including length of cord); (right) Brooch: Accumulations Cream, 2016, plastic, copper, steel, 80 x 80 x 10 mm, photo: artist Growing up surrounded by the beauty of rural New Zealand, Debbie Adamson has been profoundly affected by the
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Vanessa Arthur, Lost Pin Collection, 2016, wet cement slab, buffed vessel and pins, cement, copper, sterling silver, stone, brass, 9-karat gold, thermo-set paint, various dimensions, photo: artist I have admired Vanessa Arthur’s work for a while—she is part of New Zealand’s New Generation of Jewelers (one hesitates to capitalize, but it does feel like a
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Motoko Furuhashi and Demitra Thomloudis, Site #2, 2016, brooch, nickel silver, brass, silver, land segment, ink jet print, gesso, 100 x 110 x 45 mm, photo: Motoko Furuhashi Leading us down the road to the heart of the country, where the artists live, CrossPASS is an exhibition of both collaborative and individual jewels by Demitra
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Anna Lindsay MacDonald, brooch, 2014, sterling silver, acrylic, freshwater pearl, enamel, 90 x 90 x 15 mm, photo: artist Anna Lindsay MacDonald, a jewelry artist based in Canada, explores a multitude of paradoxes. MacDonald examines the reverence for tradition and allure of luxury versus the disdain for commercial pandering to the masses. She explores concepts
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Gillion Carrara in the library of the Arts Club of Chicago (cropped), photo: Quinn Wharton Gillion Carrara walks an exciting career path that zigzags between fashion and metalsmithing: She teaches the one, practices the other, and in her pieces she seems to actively resist fashion’s “commitment to risk, subversion and irregular forward movement,”[1] preferring instead
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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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