The endless mysteries of love, desire and memory make up “Once Upon a Time,” the latest solo exhibition of Catarina Silva. She started by collecting, for a few years, the colored wrappings of chocolates and the next step was to use them in her works. From the ideas already explored by the artist – fantasy, […]
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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.
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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
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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 »
As a maker, a wearer, and a viewer of contemporary jewelry, Melinda Young is interested in jewelry beyond its life as adornment. This interest extends to the processes that engender that object, the actions that describe making, and the notion that to “wear” or be adorned with jewelry does not necessarily mean that it is
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The exhibition brochure, with exhibition checklist and essay, for the exhibition entitled Earl Pardon: Joy in the Making: Jewelry from the Collection of Martha Connell, held at the Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Arts Center, January 11, 1998–February 15, 1998.
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A brochure for the exhibition “Louis and Elsie Freund: A Lifetime Creating,” organized and hosted by the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, May 5–June 11, 2000. The exhibition featured a selection of artwork created by the married couple Harry Louis Freund (Clinton, Missouri, 1905–1999, Little Rock, Arkansas), and Elsie Bates Freund (Taney County, Missouri,
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An exhibition brochure containing a checklist and essay by Alan DuBois, curator, Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Arts Center. This brochure was published on the occasion of the exhibition “Marjorie Schick Body Works: Structure Color Space,” organized and presented by the Decorative Arts Museum, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, June 10–July 8, 2001.
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Ena Mulavdic and Ebrahim Mohammadian are jewelry designers and artists who work together on exceptional jewelry designs. They founded their jewelry studio, “Jewellery EM,” in 2016. Their work explores life in every single way–from birth to death, with all the love, hate, happiness, sadness, excitement, good, bad, care, prosperity, decline, lightness, darkness, and numerous other
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The Sift Collection is about sifting through our inner selves. This activity should be performed all the time and will keep us conscious about the world that surrounds us. Each ring from this collection represents a temple dedicated to the activity of sifting. Every human being has its own yin and yang, the duality of
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This text explores how theoretical concepts of opulence and excess are explored in contemporary art, especially jewelry. Images of several exhibited works are included. Focusing on artists from the United States and Western Europe, it offers a Western-based interdisciplinary perspective for thinking about what “baroque” could mean in a modern context. Jewelry forms the basis
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This text explores the theoretical use of wood as a material for contemporary jewelry. Images of several exhibited works are included as well. Primarily emphasizing artists at work in the United States, it offers an overarching look at the use of wood in jewelry today. This exhibition features the work of emerging and established artists
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