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Secrets of the Gem TradeFeaturing the work of 10 emerging Chinese and international artists in the field of contemporary jewelry
Adorn: Wearable Art & Non-Functional Jewelry
Sept. 26-Oct.25
twocities Gallery Shanghai
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Adorn: Wearable Art & Non-Functional Jewelry
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Ted Muehling: A Portrait by Don Freeman – Susan Yelavich 2008
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The woods are waiting
in silence quiet and dark – stillWill winter arrive?
- Bo BjörkmanWinter
a quietly whispering jewellery and corpus exhibition
PLATINA, ODENGATAN 68, STOCKHOLM
Exhibition runs until January 31, 2009
Artists:
Alidra Alic André de la Porte (denmark), Peter Bauhuis (Germany), Gemma Draper (spain), Iris Eichenberg (the netherlands), Åsa Elmstam (sweden), Gesine Hackenberg (the netherlands), Hanna Hedman (sweden), Manon van Kousvijk (the netherlands), Karen Pontoppidan (Denmark/germany), Anna Rikkinen (finland), Karin Seufert (germany), Monika Strasser (switzerland) and Nelli Tanner (finland).
Winter is the time for thoughtfulness, recovery, lethargy, stillness and close relationships.
With winter comes darkness but lightness, coldness but warm gatherings, moods and ceremonies.
Colours become white and greyish. The days are white and the nights become black.
Winter and Christmas are both characterized by human behaviour. We see it in the demonstration of family relations in the form of various rituals. We also see it in objects that bear a certain colour scale, has some forms, functions and meanings. The use of certain objects become documents of memories. These documents and things play roles that we can not ignore, given how much time and money we spend on them. We could ask ourselves; What objects are best for this winter? What can we, after all, not do without?
The thirteen jewellery and corpus artists in this exhibition are among the most noted craftsmen on the international scene today.
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Pieces of Eight at Inform Contemporary Jewellery
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Opening Night Tues Nov 25th, from 5pm
Inform Contemporary Jewellery
158 High St
Christchurch, New Zealand
Until Dec 13th, 2008
This year, for the very first time, the group of jewellers working at the Pieces of Eight studio have been exhibiting together. The exhibition was recently held at Sturt Gallery in Mittagong, NSW and has now travelled to Inform Contemporary Jewellery, Christchurch New Zealand where it will open this coming Tues 25th Nov from 5pm. The exhibition comprises various works made by the workshop residents at Melbourne’s Pieces of Eight Gallery; Nina Ellis, Lucy Folk, Rachel Gorman, Melanie Katsalidis, Krista McRae and Suzi Zutic.
The individual methodology of each artist reveals the diversity of their approaches. For Ellis, it is related to the hardy weeds of the Australian landscape; manifested in blackened steel, silver and sprays of colour. Folk, immerses herself in the colour and pleasures that food inspires, creating a range of delights in joyful ways.
Both Gorman and Katsalidis utilise materials in unconventional ways. Gorman employs ceramic, metal and paint to re-create versions of costume jewellery; playful and colourful. While Katsalidis turns to the beautiful nature of organic pearls, particularly black pearls to assert a contemporary vision of modern day glamour.
In the work of McRae and Zutic, a certain romance exists. McRae draws on the sublimeness of shapes; oxidised silver, set with tiny dark blue sapphires that sparkle like stars. Zutic’s ring series (modelled in wax and set with petite gems) have a timeless quality, like they could have been exposed in the uncovering of an ancient roman dig.
Inform gallery hours: Mon to Fri, 10.30 – 5pm and Sat 10.30 – 4pm. Ph +64 3 366 3893
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Made by Hand - Fine Porcelain by Shannon Garson & Contemporary Jewellery by Rebecca Ward
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Fine Porcelain and Contemporary Jewellery
Art lovers have to opportunity to see two of Australia’s most exciting young makers when ceramicist Shannon Garson and jeweller Rebecca Ward open their exhibition “Made By Hand”. Shannon and Rebecca have created a very special exhibition with an emphasis on individual, classic, environmentally aware porcelain and jewellery.
There are FOUR different times spread over THREE venues leading up to the end of the year.
MADE BY HAND @ MALENY- STUDIO SALE
Sat. Nov. 15, 2008
9am – 4pm
Venue: The Studio
23 Cedar Street, MalenyMADE BY HAND @ KELVIN GROVE URBAN VILLAGE
Friday Nov. 28, 2008 4pm – 8pm
and
Sat. Nov. 29 2008 9am – 3pm.
Venue: Shop R5b, The Village Centre
corner Musk Ave. and Caraway St.
Kelvin Grove Urban Village
Undercover parking available via Ramsgate Street (free on weekends).MADE BY HAND @ GOMA
Gallery Store Christmas Design MarketSat. Dec. 6, 2008 9am – 5pm
Venue: Gallery Store forecourt
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Show your love / Christmas 2008 at Studio 20/17
Christmas Showcase – Gifts of Wearable Art Exhibition
at Studio 20/17, Dank Street Galleries, Waterloo
Nov.15-Dec.20 2008
Opening drinks: Sat. Nov.15, 2008 4-6pmSometimes the best way to show your love is to give the gift of hand crafted. Designed for gifting to the one you love, the seductive contemporary wearable art pieces will be available at Studio 20/17 Sydney’s premiere art space, within the renowned Danks Street galleries.
The festive season for 2008 is about a return to the hand crafted, the beauty of well made design and above all individuality and personality. Through their Christmas showcase, Studio 20/17 gives you the opportunity to give a gift this year that reaches above the everyday, merging design, art and craft.
The creative haven of Studio 20/17 is run by two of Sydney’s contemporary jewellery and object makers – Bridget Kennedy and Melanie Ihnen.
Their tiny blended studio gallery and workshop pays homage to the Waterloo postcode in which it’s situated.17 artists have been selected to display their works in this exhibition of gifts of wearable art. The artists are based in Sydney, Melbourne and Japan, and include:
Bridie Lander
Jeweller and designer whose organic forms are made using silver with semi precious crushed stones applied to the surface. The works reflect her ongoing interest in biological molecular science.Yuji Kono
Creator of intricate, highly crafted enamel and gemstone work.Sian Edwards
Designer of baked enamel mild steel pieces whose stories are based about the tale of Leda and the Swan.Kimberly Williams
Her pendants, earrings and bangles reinterpret the intricate history of woven hair.Danielle Butters
A jeweller who brings to the Studio a colourful and playful ‘lapidary club series’.
Bridget Kennedy
Bridget has recently completed an advanced Diploma of Jewellery and Object Design at The Design Centre where she was awarded the College Achievement Award and the Jewellery and Object Design Award (access residency). She was a finalist in the 2006 Hobart Art Prize. Bridget was most recently the winner of the Emerging Artist Category in JMGA’s Profile Exhibition.
Melanie Ihnen
While undertaking her Advanced Diploma in Jewellery & Object Design at the Design Centre, Enmore Melanie was awarded a Foundation for young Australian Scholarship and in 2002 she was awarded the college achievement award. Melanie has completed a residency at Pyrmont jewellery studios and received a Craft in-site grant to exhibit. Her work is placed in galleries throughout Australia and she continues to exhibit widely.Ross Buchanan
Ross Buchanan is a photographer who tries to find via his photographs the calmness that eludes him in his full-time career as a lawyer. -
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Form & Function: American Modernist Jewelry, 1940-1970 – Marbeth Schon 2008This book is the catalog for two of the first major exhibits to show only modernist jewelry from such a broad group of artists. Both take place in 2008 in Fort Wayne, Indiana: one at The Fort Wayne Museum of Art (May 2 to Aug. 24, 2008) and the other at The University of St. Francis School of Creative Arts (May 2-30, 2008). Over fifty collectors and living art jewelers have lent some of the best examples of this innovative style. Sculptors Alexander Calder, Harry Bertoia, Jose de Rivera, Peter and Daniel Macchiarini, Earl and Tod Pardon, and Merry Renk are among the 96 artists featured, along with their extensive jewelry creations. Their work was experimental and stimulated originality in successive generations. Plastics, pearls, brass, copper, silver, gold, and enamels are among the materials found here in mini-sculptures and jewelry ornaments for men and women alike. The author’s extensive research uncovers connections among the artists and documents this important art period and medium. Artists, collectors, cultural historians, and students all will want to see the exhibits and own the catalog.
Previously written by the same author is:
Modernist Jewelry 1930-1960: The Wearable Art Movement – Marbeth Schon 2004This beautifully written book explores the work of 175 of the most important American modernist artist jewelers through a comprehensive text and over 540 color and 35 black and white photos. Beginning with the streamlining of Art Moderne, modernist jewelers mirrored the consciousness of their age. They were free thinkers artists who broke away from the mainstream of jewelry design and looked to the fine arts for inspiration; they were Surrealists, Cubists, and Abstract Expressionists functioning as sculptors in small scale, painters in enamels, and architects in miniature. The modernist metalsmiths of the 1930s through 1960s laid the groundwork for the enormous expansion of metalsmithing in the 1970s and ’80s. These creative jewelers produced personal designs as they absorbed the changes happening in the world around them. The artists’ stories and jewelry are arranged chronologically and linked to four pivotal exhibitions held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, in 1946; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, in 1948 and 1955; and an exhibition on paper in 1959. Together, the artists at these important events comprise the modernist movement of wearable art directly and through their influence on the subsequent generations. This important book will stand as the primary reference to art jewelry of the mid-20th century and be consulted by all who want to understand the innovations it embraces.
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From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
at Brooklyn Museum, NY USA
May 14, 2008 through May 17, 2009Exhibition of Silver Jewelry Designed by Legendary Modernist Jeweler Art Smith
This exhibit will honor the gift of twenty pieces of silver and gold jewelry created by the Brooklyn-born modernist jeweler Arthur Smith (1917–1982), primarily from Charles Russell, Smith’s companion and heir.
The presentation of Art Smith jewelry will be enhanced by archival material from the artist’s estate, including his working tools, the original shop sign designed by Smith, period photographs of models wearing his jewelry, preparatory sketches, and account books. Presented along with Smith’s work are twenty-three pieces of modernist jewelry from the permanent collection by such artists as Elsa Freund, William Spratling, Frank Rebajes, Eva Eisler, Ed Weiner, Claire Falkenstein, Jung-Hoo Kim, and others. Inspired by surrealism, biomorphicism, and primitivism, Art Smith’s jewelry is dynamic in its size and form. Although sometimes massive in scale, his jewelry remains lightweight and wearable due to his awareness of the female form. The jewelry dates from the late 1940s to the 1970s and includes his most famous pieces, such as a "Patina" necklace inspired by the mobiles of Alexander Calder; a "Lava" bracelet, or cuff, that extends over the entire lower arm in undulating and overlapping forms; and a massive ring with three semiprecious stones that stretches over three fingers.
Trained at Cooper Union, Art Smith, an African American, opened his first shop on Cornelia Street in Greenwich Village in 1946. He later moved the business to 140 West Fourth Street, where it remained throughout his career. Not only one of the leading modernist jewelers of the mid-twentieth century, Smith was also an active supporter of black and gay civil rights, an avid jazz enthusiast, and a supporter of early black modern dance groups.
This exhibition is organized by Barry Harwood, Curator of Decorative Arts, Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition is supported by the Harold S. Keller Fund with additional support from the Donald and Mary Oenslager Fund.
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Phillip Fike
born July 17, 1927 – died Dec. 8, 1997
Wow ! Has it really been ten years since my good friend Phillip Fike left this planet? I feel his presence around me all the time and it makes me think he’s still here.
We met at my first SNAG conference in the 80’s. I remember being in a dark bar surrounded by a sea of people and being told these amazing stories of past escapades. I wish I had taped them because I can no longer remember the exact details but I will always remember them with a smile.
For those too young to have met him, Phillip was a founding member of SNAG and the person who came up with the acronym SNAG (the Society of North American Goldsmiths).
He would make fabulous fibulae which is an ancient form of a brooch. The types that the Romans and Greeks would use to fasten their garments. He was an expert with Niello. He was a professor at Wayne State University in Michigan from 1953-1997.
When I told him that I was running for the SNAG Board, he grabbed my hand strongly, would not let go, then thanked me and told me that I understood and represented the spirit of the original Society of North American Goldsmiths. Michael Good told me the same at Tavern on the Green in NY at WJA. I was honored that they felt that way about me. I won the election and served on it from 1994-1998.
It saddens me to know that a new generation of metalsmiths will never have the chance to experience firsthand the great man Phillip Fike.
I do have a page in progress. I need to add a few photos and more information. Just have not been able to scan them yet. If people have info and stories I would love to hear from them.
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Jewelry by Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection
May 22, 2007- March 5, 2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA USAThis exhibiton will present highlights from Daphne Farago’s collection of contemporary jewelry, which was given to the MFA in 2006. The collection comprises more than 600 works of jewelry by leading American and European artists, ranging in date from about 1940 to the present, in a wide variety of media and sculptural forms. With this gift, the MFA now holds the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century studio jewelry ever assembled. The exhibition will include a selection of about 150-200 objects, and will provide a chronological survey of studio jewelry in the 20th century. While demonstrating the breadth of the collection and the variety of artists’ approaches to jewelry-making, the show will also represent key artists in depth, including Alexander Calder, Art Smith, Sam Kramer, Robert Ebendorf, William Harper, Wendy Ramshaw and Mary Lee Hu.
