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• metalcyberspace 3:16 am on October 29, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Art Nouveau, Art Nouveau Jewellery, Art Nouveau Jewelry, Cincinnati Art Museum, Elyse Karlin, George Fouquet, Henri Vever, Imperishable Beauty, jewellery (14), jewellery artist (7), jewelry (28), jewelry exhibition, Louis Aucoc, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Museum of Fine Arts, publications, René Lalique (2), Yvonne Markowitz

  

  Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry
  Through Nov.9, 2008 at the Museum of Fine Arts – Boston MA USA
  travels to the Cincinnati Art Museum – Nov. 1, 2009-Feb. 28, 2010

  More than 100 pieces will be shown.
  The majority of the works, by such recognized masters as René Lalique, George Fouquet, and Louis Comfort Tiffany, are drawn from a private collection representing one of the largest and most important assemblages of Art Nouveau jewelry in the United States. More than half of the pieces have never before been exhibited. Included are such fanciful works as a belt buckle with lily pads and blossoms by Henri Vever and a pendant/brooch with female bust, probably by Louis Aucoc, both of which are from about 1900. A catalog of the exhibit is available

  Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry – Yvonne Markowitz, Elyse Karlin – 2008

   

• metalcyberspace 3:09 pm on September 19, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: art jewelry (11), Art Smith, jewelry exhibition, metalsmith (8), modernist jewelry (3), silver (3), studio jewelry (6)

  From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith
  at Brooklyn Museum, NY USA
  May 14, 2008 through May 17, 2009

  Exhibition 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.

   

• metalcyberspace 8:20 pm on September 18, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewelry (30), enamel (2), Jamie Bennett (2), jewelry exhibition

  Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett
  Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art – NY Sept.27 – Nov.16 2008
  Opening reception: Friday, Sept.26, 2008 5-8pm

  Edge of the Sublime represents the first-ever retrospective of works by one of the most important enamelists working today. This exhibition explores the artist’s creative use and development of a variety of enameling and metalworking techniques to produce highly color-saturated imagery on signature brooches, necklaces and pendants. Curated by Jeannine Falino, former Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Edge of the Sublime debuted at Fuller Craft Museum in Massachusetts before traveling to the SDMA and museums nationwide through 2010.

  This exhibition will continue to travel to:
  Arkansas Art Center – AR Dec.19, 2008 – Feb.22, 2009
  Racine Art Museum – WI
  Bellevue Arts Museum – WA

  An exhibition catalog is available:
  Edge of the Sublime: Enamels by Jamie Bennett by Jeannine Falino 2008
  A beautifully illustrated catalogue of over 100 color plates, it addresses artist’s lifework who first established his international reputation in 1986 when he produced enameled jewelry using unique, electroformed shapes. Jeannine Falino is an independent curator who formerly curated at the MFA in Boston.

   

• metalcyberspace 5:31 pm on September 18, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewelry (30), jewelry exhibition, Tiffany & Co. (2)

  Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry

  Sept. 27, 2008 – May 31, 2009

  The Museum of Arts & Design in New York inaugurates the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Jewelry Gallery in its new home at 2 Columbus Circle with Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry. The exhibition offer visitors the unique opportunity to see an exceptional assembly of works from the Museum’s collection. The remarkably inventive artists extend the range of materials beyond precious gems and metals to demonstrate that they can make superb jewelry from paper, rubber, plastic, found objects of all descriptions and even pig’s intestines. Featuring over 200 objects from the pioneering works of the 1940s to the cutting edge pieces made this year, the exhibition provides a dazzling overview of the evolution of contemporary art jewelry.

   

• metalcyberspace 2:44 am on September 18, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: jewelry exhibition

  3rd Annual Intercollegiate Metals Exhibition

  Oct. 6-17, 2008 Mon.-Thurs. noon-5pm; Friday noon-3pm
  Opening Reception: Mon. Oct. 6, 2008 7-9pm
  Tickets: Free

  A national juried exhibition of jewelry and metalwork, selected and organized by Herberger College faculty member Becky McDonah and the Metals program in the School of Art, ASU Tempe, AZ USA

   

• Goldsmiths' Fair 2008

  metalcyberspace 1:18 am on September 18, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewelry (30), jewelry exhibition

  Goldsmiths’ Fair 2008
  The annual selling exhibition of innovative jewellery and silverware by contemporary designer makers
  At Goldsmiths’ Hall, London EC2

  Week One – Sept.22-28, 2008
  Week Two – Sept.30-Oct.5, 2008
  Entrance by catalogue purchasable on the door – £6

  SUCCUMB TO temptation and be seduced by the sparkling range of designer jewellery and stunningly original silverware on sale at the annual Goldsmiths’ Fair. Now in its 26th year, the Fair is the country’s leading showcase for contemporary works in precious metals by artist designer makers, and a total of 160 will travel to London from all round the country to dazzle visitors with their latest creations. Let the makers weave their magic as they explain their craft. Listen as they describe what influences their designs, how and where they source their stones and what skills and wizardry they use to transform gold and silver into exquisite works of art for adornment and pure pleasure. Buying directly from the maker instantly becomes so much more enjoyable and personal. Function and aesthetics are fused into a stunning range of silver dishes, bowls, vases, jugs, flatware, candlesticks, boxes and table decorations and all manner of objects to complement and enhance stylish contemporary living.

  Goldsmiths’ Fair is not only about established talent but is also about talent spotting! Ten young graduates make their professional debut with the help of a bursary and a free stand from the Goldsmiths’ Company which enables them to get started.

  A selection of designer-makers exhibiting over the two weeks:
  Barbara Christie, Ornella Iannuzzi, Christine Kaltoft, David McCaul, Ming, David Miracca, Tom Rucker, Bobby White, Frances Levis, Louise Loder, Olivia Lowe, Shona Marsh

   

• metalcyberspace 1:12 am on September 17, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Contemporary jewellery (14), Contemporary jewelry (30), Dieter Roth, jewelry book (8), jewelry exhibition, Ringe 1959–1973

  Dieter Roth’s Rings
  through 5 Oct. 2008 at MUDAC

  The Swiss creator Dieter Roth (1930–1998) worked on innumerable fronts, trying out multiple materials and techniques. He was a remarkable dabbler in many things: at one and the same time painter, graphic artist, designer, sculptor, creator of installations, poet, musician, filmmaker and organiser of his own exhibitions. The scope of his interests and his artistic research was such that Dieter Roth is unique and, indeed, unclassifiable. His work often leaped from one discipline to another, while some of his works decomposed naturally because they were made from chocolate, cheese or meat. The proliferation and originality of his interventions and his works have left a lasting mark on the most recent generations of artists.

  In 1957, Dieter Roth decided to settle with his wife in Iceland, which very quickly became his adopted homeland. Following the birth of their three children, in order to meet his family’s needs, the artist went on to experiment in very diverse fields: he built furniture, designed a shelving system for a pharmacist, developed new pieces for chess (a very highly regarded game in Iceland), designed posters and produced work in ceramics and glass. In parallel he became interested in making jewellery, which he thought he could sell easily. These creations were totally innovative and burst the norms of traditional jewellery. Thus his bracelets were based on salvaged aluminium plates on to which he poured chemical products; he would wait two or three weeks until a form of oxidisation was produced and then cut out strips of metal. His early days as a jeweller were very laborious. Icelanders did not recognise the originality of his experimental work, which broke down the barriers between different areas of skills. The meeting in 1958 with his fellow countryman, the goldsmith Hans Langenbacher, marked a turning point in his production. A long, fruitful collaboration grew out of this friendship, which would last until the artist’s death, as the abundant correspondence presented at the mudac this summer will testify.

  Hans Langenbacher was instantly fascinated by the freedom of expression of the jewellery designed by Dieter Roth, the audacity of the materials employed and their ingenious system of assemblage. The artist used to try out various combinations of bolts, nuts and screws, propose new components to add, cover or remove. This incredible series of sculptures for fingers, or ring-sculptures, was based on rather ordinary materials such as gilt brass, iron and coloured plexiglass. Dieter Roth even went further, including the eventual wearers of his jewellery in the creation of their own ring. They could modify the ring as they pleased by combining or replacing certain components, thereby creating a unique object. The dialogue of the artist with the person who would wear the object is a central theme in Dieter Roth’s work. The series of rings produced by Dieter Roth includes some very special models such as the “Ring with rotating components” (1971), permitting the wearer to play with 15 different settings, the four “Lion rings” (1971) inspired by the Lion Monument in Lucerne, and the “Zoo ring” (1971) made up of toys in the form of interchangeable animal heads.

  The exhibition presents six ring-sculpture models with multiple combinations permitting 40 different rings to be made, as well as 70 original documents prefiguring these projects. Drawings, sketches, letters and postcards sent by Dieter Roth to Hans Langenbacher allow one to follow, step by step, the collaboration between artist and goldsmith. All the objects come from the private collection of Hans Langenbacher (Lucerne).

  Parallel to this project, Edizioni Periferia (Lucerne) is publishing in German and English the book Dieter Roth, Ringe 1959–1973, which includes photographs by Harry Burst of the various ring projects, with previously unpublished texts by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Hans Langenbacher and Flurina Paravicini, Adalsteinn Ingolfsson and Peter Noever. As the goldsmith Hans Langenbacher placed his archives at the publisher’s disposal, all the original documents relating to this collaboration have been reproduced in facsimile and gathered together in a loose-leaf file in a limited edition of 750. There is also a leader edition (15 numbered copies) incorporating an example of the “Lucerne lion ring” in silver.

   

• metalcyberspace 11:07 pm on September 16, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Bruce Metcalf, Contemporary jewelry (30), jewelry book (8), jewelry exhibition

  The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf
  Sept.28 – Dec.21, 2008
  Special Events on Sept.28, 2008:
  Bruce Metcalf Lecture: “Chapters in a Life of the Imagination” 2-3pm at the Palo Alto Art Center auditorium
  Public Preview 3-5pm
  The lecture and preview are free to the public; please call 650-329-2366 to RSVP for the lecture.

  A 120 page full-color exhibition catalogue is available.

  Curated by Signe Mayfield of PAAC, this first major exhibition of his work examines social, moral and political issues, many of which Metcalf has also raised in his essays. In this exhibition, diminutive size matters. Cast in silver or carved in wood, Metcalf’s vulnerable protagonists act out issues on the stage of miniature worlds. Some of his pieces serve dual lives as wearable brooches, where the protagonists venture into the world and engage the unsuspecting viewer with their stories and distinctive visual language. The exhibition also marks the premier of the United States tour slated for multiple venues through 2011, including the Mint Museum of Craft+Design in Charlotte, North Carolina; Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue, Washington; Fresno Art Museum in Fresno, California; Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts; Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Arkansas; and Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin.

   

• metalcyberspace 3:35 am on September 15, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Australian jewelers, Contemporary jewelry (30), Flip Side, jewelry exhibition, Velvet da Vinci (2)

  Flip Side: Jewelry from JamFactory at Velvet da Vinci Gallery
  Sept. 10 to Oct. 12, 2008

  Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco presents “Flip side: Jewelry from JamFactory”, a show featuring new work from eight established Australian jewelers. Sue Lorraine, Creative Director of the Metals Design Studio and curator of Flip side, explains that the intention of this exhibition was to push these artists into a new dimension of their work. “There is always more than one point of view, always several ways to look at something, from the back and the front, the inside and the outside, the upside and the downside, the safe side and the flip side.” However, instead of creating drastically new pieces for the exhibition, Lorraine found that their mature and assured practice has allowed them to push the boundaries of their everyday work. For the last 30 years, JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design Centre, located in Southern Australia, has been a center for the design, production, exhibition and sale of work by leading and emerging Australian designers / makers.

  An exhibition catalog is available.
  The artists exhibiting in the show are: Alisa Dewhurst, Kath Inglis, Tassia Joannides, Sim Luttin, Sally Mahony, Lauren Simeoni, Belinda Newick, Melissa Turner.

  Tassia Joannides uses the common zipper as her medium. She has given this one-dimensional form body and substance. The armbands intentionally blur the boundaries between the inside and out. By unzipping and zipping they become part of the wearer, an intimate experience.

  Melissa Turner uses stainless steel to create fluid and soft forms of beauty. There is no front or back, no pin back, no pendant, no ring shank, only fluid forms. These forms stand as an act of defiance to the jewelry world, without a wearable function.

  Sally Mahony uses primarily stainless steel in her work. She manipulates the material to both extremes, making it corrode and shine to a satiny, seductive black. The brooches peel away from the body exposing fabric or metal beneath.

  Kath Inglis again is a manipulator of materials. She carves PVC into three-dimensional wearable sculptures. Kath is inspired by the colors of shadows and reflections in water. Just as water has no top or bottom, no starting or ending point, her jewelry is a continuous ripple on the wearer.

  Lauren Simeoni’s brooches reflect the impact materials have on the world. She is a lover of materials and the impact these material leave. In this series of brooches she has printed nostalgic images on aluminum and reveals a time of personal innocence.

  Sim Luttin made this body of work while recently living in the U.S. As a visitor she was hyper-aware of her surroundings. Her necklaces reflect and magnify nature with their seed-like forms as vessels strung from dark beads.

  Alisa Dewhurst and Belinda Newick have used the body as their starting points. Alisa crochets necklaces illustrating the repetitive genetic message of DNA, the building material that makes up each individual. She mimics this process in crocheted wire. Belinda uses the necklace to discuss the fragility, fertility and fecundity of the female anatomy.

   

• metalcyberspace 3:03 am on September 15, 2008 | 0 Permalink
  Tags: Fred Fenster, jewelry artist (8), jewelry exhibition, metalsmithing (14)

  Fred Fenster: Metalsmithing, Collected and Created

  Exhibition at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne,  February 4-29, 2008

  video clip of the exhibition

  Thanks to Robert Schroeder for sending this along!