So You Want to Be a Jewelry Designer
So You Want to Be a Jewelry Designer reinterprets how to apply techniques and modify art theories from the jewelry designer’s perspective. Reveals how to become a literate and fluent jewelry designer.
So You Want to Be a Jewelry Designer reinterprets how to apply techniques and modify art theories from the jewelry designer’s perspective. Reveals how to become a literate and fluent jewelry designer.
This year’s Studio Jewelry and Art Jewelry Auction (which takes place December 1, 2022) offers a diverse selection of 136 objects for collectors and jewelry lovers. This is the catalog for it. From Quittenbaum Art Auctions, Munich.
It’s known that Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault raised the question of authorship in the 1960s with a profound influence across the field and the globe. This essay, however, through a brief review of the development of the notion of “Author Jewelry,” consciously incorporates the artist Li Yi’s latest practice, produced in the period of COVID-19 …
Valuing the Time and Authenticity: A Preliminary Review of the Jewellery Work of Li Yi Read More »
Best known in international jewelry and metalsmithing circles, Iris Eichenberg has made an enormous contribution as an artist and educator. Addressing significant current issues such as identity, gender politics, and Heimat—a German word denoting the personal happiness and fulfillment found upon reaching a safe haven—the show Iris Eichenberg: Where Words Fail is particularly timely. Eichenberg …
An exhibition brochure. As a collector and wearer, Susan Grant Lewin selects pieces for her collection that resonate with her intellect, aesthetic, and keen sense of identity. In this regard, jewelry takes on a performative role, acting as both an intimate treasured possession and a public expression of the wearer’s— and the maker’s—thoughts and feelings. …
American Jewelry: The Susan Grant Lewin Collection at the Yale University Art Gallery Read More »
Craftspace invited Rebekah Frank to explore queerness in relation to the expansive field of metalworking and metalsmithing. Explore the scope of the project at https://craftspace.co.uk/queer-metals/.
The catalog for the exhibition held June 4–July 2, 2022. “I am particularly fond of photographs,” says the artist. “Sometimes they are old and show bygone places or people of times past, but quite often I use photos I took myself of trunks, flowers, lonesome lanes, or landscapes. These pictures turn into pieces of jewelry. …
Bettina Speckner: Navegar é Preciso (Sailing Is Necessary), at Galeria Tereza Seabra Read More »
The collection comes from a collector couple who have accumulated passionately for over 40 years, surrounding themselves with modern art, design and with selected crafts in all aspects of life. Everything is beautiful, not as a dictate, but as a way of life and bringing inspiration to the everyday. The auction title is not only …
The Closer Gallery, in Beijing, presented its first spring show of 2022, ‘O’FLOW, by Hong Kong artist Jun Jin Wu from 16th April to 04th May. Most exhibits tailor-made for the show seems static, but with the physical interactions—wearing, playing, and even performing, the dynamic effects are unexpectedly triggered due to the deep concern from …
‘O’ FLOW: Concrete Piece Without Concrete Function Read More »
The truth is under attack today. In the post-truth era, characterized by fake news, social networks, and different conspiracies, it’s difficult to know what’s correct, what’s true, and if there is truly only one truth. Twelve contemporary jewelers present their interpretation of the idea of “truth.”
Composed of plastic debris, the sculptures and jewelry by Bridget Catchpole, beyond a seductive and magical aesthetic, carry within them a deeper reflection on our behavior and our responsibilities.