Established by San Francisco-based jewelry collector Susan Beech, the $20,000 Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant has as its objective to recognize a mid-career artist who has made a substantial contribution to the field of art jewelry. Esther Doornbusch was one of two finalists. The jury consisted of grant founder and collector Susan Beech, internationally recognized maker…
There are so many reasons to purchase art jewelry: You got that hard-earned promotion—celebrate! You’re experiencing a once-in-a-lifetime occasion and want to honor it. You wrapped up that major accomplishment and it’s time to commemorate it, or you want to mark the beginning of a new relationship (or the end of one). Perhaps it’s an…
Ibram Lassaw, Pendant, circa 1990s, copper sheet with bronze, gold plated, 115 x 90 mm, photo: Denise Lassaw For close to 50 years, one of America’s first abstract sculptors playfully created unique bronze sculptures designed to wear as necklaces. Ibram Lassaw (1913–2003) was born in Egypt and arrived in New York as a child in…
Art Jewelry Forum’s extensive network of international gallery supporters is dedicated to celebrating and showing art jewelry. On Offer is a monthly series that allows AJF galleries to showcase a piece that they’ve personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries. Enjoy! MUSEUM WORTHY Andrea Wagner, Lodge On the…
Hybrid or multidisciplinary approaches to metalworking are inherent when considering the blend between technical and physical manifestations of wearable and functional metal art throughout history. In articles Melis Agabigum previously published on AJF,[1] she addressed the crossover between jewelry and installation art, jewelry and sculpture, and jewelry in dialogue with performance art. Therefore it was…
Art Jewelry Forum’s extensive network of international gallery supporters is dedicated to celebrating and showing art jewelry. On Offer is a monthly series that allows AJF galleries to showcase a piece that they’ve personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries. Enjoy! MUSEUM WORTHY Anton Cepka, Untitled, 1995, brooch,…
During the last days of annus horribilis 2020, Lucy Sarneel died silently in her house in Amsterdam, too young at the age of 59. Lucy Sarneel in her studio, cover for her catalog Lucy Sarneel: Private Territory in Public, Amsterdam 2017, photo courtesy of CODA Since I visited her last exhibition, PLUS (at Galerie Marzee),…
Art Jewelry Forum’s extensive network of international gallery supporters is dedicated to celebrating and showing art jewelry. On Offer is a monthly series that allows AJF galleries to showcase a piece that they’ve personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries. Enjoy! MUSEUM WORTHY Jiro Kamata, Spiegel Necklace, 2020,…
Emily Stoehrer—the Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—tells us about her career as a jewelry curator and what she foresees in the applications for the Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant. (Stoehrer will work with two other jurors: Daniel Kruger and Susan Beech, the grant’s…
Art Jewelry Forum’s extensive network of international gallery supporters is dedicated to celebrating and showing art jewelry. On Offer is a monthly series that allows AJF galleries to showcase a piece that they’ve personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries. Enjoy! MUSEUM WORTHY Hermann Jünger, Necklace, from the…
