On Provide – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board

April 2024, Half 2

There are such a lot of causes to buy artwork jewellery…

Rejoice that hard-earned promotion
Honor a once-in-a-lifetime event
Pay tribute to a significant accomplishment
Commemorate the start of a brand new relationship or the tip of 1
Pounce on the right piece to spherical out a side of your assortment
Or put money into a deal with for your self—simply because

Artwork Jewellery Discussion board’s worldwide gallery supporters rejoice and exhibit artwork jewellery. Our month-to-month On Provide sequence permits this in depth community of worldwide galleries to showcase extraordinary items personally chosen to tempt and encourage you. Have a look. You’re sure to discover a improbable piece you merely can’t stay with out! (Please contact the gallery straight for inquiries.)

Kiko Gianocca, Well Deep Well — Kiko Gianocca, *Nicely Deep Nicely,* 2019, brooch, anodized aluminum, 3 ¾ x 3 inches (95 x 75 mm), photograph courtesy of Galerie Viceversa

Gallery: Galerie Viceversa (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: ilona Schwippel (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Kiko Gianocca (CH)
Retail value: 950 CHF
Whereas presenting this brooch, Kiko Gianocca shares with us one in all his favourite music by Jarvis Cocker: ‘’Oh, black magic that blows your thoughts away, And takes you someplace that you simply wanna keep, Oh, that chilly black magic …”

Katie Kameen, Sediment — Katie Kameen, *Sediment,* 2022, brooch, used plastic objects, plastic thread, metal pins, 5 ⅛ x 4 ⅛ x 1 ⅛ inches (130 x 105 x 30 mm), photograph: artist

Gallery: Baltimore Jewellery Middle, Baltimore, MD, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Katie Kameen
Retail value: US$500
Katie Kameen is an assistant professor of 3D sculpture media at Augusta College in Augusta, GA, US. Kameen obtained her BFA in 3D studio artwork from Jap Illinois College in Charleston, IL, US, and her MFA in metalsmithing and jewellery design from Indiana College in Bloomington, IN, US. Kameen’s work focuses on creating abstractions that playfully interpret private experiences and feelings. This brooch is made totally from secondhand plastic objects, that are reduce aside and sewn into new compositions with reclaimed plastic thread. Utilizing recognizable objects in unrecognizable varieties, Kameen creates formal abstractions that illustrate her feelings, relationships, and experiences.

Keith Lewis, Ossuary — Keith Lewis, *Ossuary,* brooch, sterling silver, wonderful silver, pure gold, enamel, 2 ¾ x 3 ⅛ x ¼ inches (70 x 80 x 5 mm), photograph courtesy of Gallery Loupe

Gallery: Gallery Loupe, Montclair, NJ, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Patti Bleicher (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Keith Lewis
Retail value: US$3,600
Keith Lewis is a grasp American jeweler residing in Washington state. He’s a distinguished professor of knickknack/metals/design at Central Washington College in Ellensburg, WA, US, the place he has taught for nearly 30 years. Lewis states that he’s drawn to the jewellery medium due to its intimacy and historic reference to sentiment, a particular attribute of knickknack present in all cultures all through the ages.

Tore Svensson, HB — Tore Svensson, *HB,* 2020, brooch, veneer, paint, silver, 3 ⅜ x 3 ⅞ x ¼ inches (87 x 99 x 6 mm), photograph: 4

Gallery: 4 Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Tore Svensson
Retail value: €600
Tore Svensson is without doubt one of the pioneers of Swedish jewellery artwork and has an extended, spectacular profession. Expertise sits in his again, in his arms and palms. Paving the best way for a brand new artwork style requires perseverance, creative energy, and maybe additionally a little bit of a playful mindset. These traits are additionally present in Svensson’s works: giant iron bowls formed by 1000’s of hammer strikes and strict, geometric shapes with surfaces that give the works heat and generally provide a well-balanced quantity of humor. This brooch belongs to a sequence of portraits that characteristic, to many artwork jewelers, well-known profiles. The colour fields that make up hair, pores and skin, and garments are on the identical time particular person components that steadiness one another in shade and form.

Peter Skubic, Ring — Peter Skubic, *Ring,* 1978, 18-karat brushed gold, ¾ inch (19 mm) tall, ⅝ inch (16 mm) in diameter, photograph courtesy of Mahnaz Assortment

Gallery: Mahnaz Assortment, New York, NY, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Noelle Wiegand (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Peter Skubic
Retail value: US$5,000
Throughout his life, the award-winning artist Peter Skubic additionally served the sector as an educator and curator. This wonderful geometric brushed gold ring was accomplished throughout a essential time in his profession, in 1975, when he organized the “Schmuck aus Stahl,” or “Jewellery in Metal,” symposium and in 1979 curated the Schmuck Worldwide 1900–1980 exhibition. This was the identical 12 months that he was chosen as professor of knickknack design on the Fachhochschule in Cologne. Whereas skilled as a conventional goldsmith, and though the concentrate on geometry and architectural building remained as an essential a part of his work, Skubic moved away from utilizing gold as a result of battle mining.

Svenja John, Marconi — Svenja John, *Marconi,* 2022, bracelet, polycarbonate, nylon, wonderful pigmented acrylic paint, 3 ½ inches (90 mm) in diameter, 3 ⅜ inches (85 mm) extensive, photograph: Ludger Paffrath

Gallery: Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Svenja John
Retail value: €3,200, plus transport
“I reply sensitively to my surrounding world and its modifications. I prolonged my formal alphabet … ” says the artist Svenja John. Since 1994, John has labored with Makrofol® polycarbonate and computer-aided chopping strategies to supply particular person components for her creations. After manually re-working and coloring, the components are remodeled into advanced, geometric items of knickknack. It’s a mix of high-tech and handcraftsmanship that’s completed in a playful, pure method. Pc designs and likewise designs created utilizing paper and pencil. Additive manufacturing strategies alongside paint field and paintbrush. The precision of commercial water-jet expertise coupled with the exact use of hand recordsdata. This glorious piece is a part of John’s solo present at Galeria Tereza Seabra till Could 17, 2024.

Jane Bowden, Studies in Beads Earrings — Jane Bowden, *Research in Beads Earrings,* 2024, dimension 15/0 glass beads, stitching cotton, sterling silver, lapis lazuli, 3 ⅛ inches (80 mm) lengthy together with hook x ⅜ inch (10 mm) in diameter, photograph: artist

Gallery: Zu design (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Jane Bowden
Retail value: AUS$2,185
This pair of earrings is a continuation of Jane Bowden’s Research in Beads. The beadwork, which is hand-crocheted on stitching thread utilizing a 0.6-mm crochet hook, varieties a playful floor texture, catching and reflecting gentle. Bowden’s fascination with precision, and every part miniature, is showcased on this work.

Birgit Laken, Chapeau Reverso — Birgit Laken, *Chapeau Reverso,* 2023, pendant, acrylic sheet plastic, silk twine, 19 ⅝ x 4 ⅞ x 1 ⅜ inches (500 x 125 x 35 mm), photograph courtesy of Reverso Gallery

Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Birgit Laken
Retail value: €720
There are works that we admire for the story they inform, others for kind of express references to conditions that have an effect on us positively or negatively. There are others that we like with out figuring out why. As a result of they’re apparently easy and cheerful? Due to the colour mixture? Due to the bizarre shapes? By recycling supplies we acknowledge? We really feel all of this in these works by Birgit Laken, plus the at all times distinctive care intimately, whether or not in her silver or gold work, or, as on this case, in easy acrylic.

Sandra Enterline, Necklace — Sandra Enterline, *Necklace,* mica, sterling silver, metal, approximate pendant dimension 1 ½ inches (38 mm) lengthy x 1 ⅛ inches (29 mm) extensive, cable 17 inches (432 mm) lengthy, photograph courtesy of the Museum of Craft and Design

Gallery: Museum of Craft and Design (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Ken Irish (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Sandra Enterline
Retail value: US$475
Born in Oil Metropolis, PA, US, in 1960, Sandra Enterline graduated with an affiliate’s diploma in jewellery and metalsmithing from the Rochester Institute of Expertise, College for American Crafts in 1980. She went on to earn a BFA in metalsmithing from the Rhode Island College of Design in 1983. Along with her studio work, Enterline offers lectures on her craft and conducts metalsmithing workshops. From 1991 to 1992, she held visiting professor and visiting artist positions on the College of the Museum of Positive Arts and the Massachusetts School of Artwork and Design, respectively. At present, she visitor lectures at universities within the San Francisco Bay Space, together with the Academy of Artwork College and the California School of the Arts.

Kelly Jean Conroy, Necklace — Kelly Jean Conroy, *Necklace,* mother-of-pearl, oxidized sterling silver, photograph: Pistachios

Gallery: Pistachios Up to date Artwork Jewellery, Chicago, IL, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: The Pistachios Staff (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Kelly Jean Conroy
Retail value: US$1,485
Made with etched mother-of-pearl, this illustrative assertion necklace speaks volumes. Birds soar throughout the floor, hinting at an open-ended narrative that the viewer can conceptualize. Oxidized sterling silver unifies the piece, and is shaped to create a toggle closure within the form of a chicken.

A+M, Untitled, 2023, rings, (left to proper) chrysoprase, oxidized sterling silver, 2 ⅝ x 1 ⅝ x ¼ inches (67 x 40 x 6 mm), agate, oxidized sterling silver, 2 x 1 ⅝ x ¼ inches (51 x 41 x 7 mm), carnelian, oxidized sterling silver, 2 ¼ x 1 ½ x ¼ inches (57 x 38 x 5 mm), photograph: Michael Couper

Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: A+M (Debbie Adamson & Craig McIntosh)
Retail value: Every NZ$760
In 2019, jewelers Debbie Adamson and Craig McIntosh arrange a shared workshop in Central Dunedin the place they started manufacturing a collective output underneath the moniker A+M. Described by the pair as “benchworks,” these items of knickknack are designed and fabricated by each makers in a non-hierarchical style, with the intention of being well-considered, wearable, and reproducible. A+M is an evolving venture, with new items launched as and when they’re developed and originating from conversations concerning the historical past of studio craft in New Zealand, through which small-scale manufacturing performs a key position. Each jewelers additionally work independently underneath their very own names.

Emily Culver, Phantom Probe — Emily Culver, *Phantom Probe,* 2024, brooch, plastic, silver, 6 ¾ x 3 ¼ x 1 ¼ inches (171 x 83 x 32 mm), photograph: Erin S. Day by day

Gallery: Within the Gallery at Brooklyn Steel Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Brian Weissman (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Emily Culver
Retail value: US$300
“Journeying into unchartered territory is usually preceded by a probe—an exploratory entity whose sole function is to survey and gather knowledge. Whether or not or not it’s the panorama of planet Earth, house, or the physique, this machine at all times belongs away from ‘dwelling.’ If given its personal company, would this vacationer select to turn into part of this place? Maybe it might want to assimilate, set down roots, or dissolve into the environment.” —Emily Culver

Sharon Church, Untitled, circa Nineteen Eighties, earrings, sterling silver, 14-karat gold, diamonds, (left) 1 x 1 ¼ inches (25 x 32 mm), (proper) 1 ½ x 2 ¾ inches (38 x 70 mm), photograph courtesy of Aaron Faber Gallery

Gallery: Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY, US (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Patricia Kiley (click on the title for e-mail)
Artist: Sharon Church
Retail value: US$795
A uncommon discover, these asymmetrical earrings in sterling silver, 14-karat gold, and diamonds are by the peerless metalsmith, designer, and educator Sharon Church (1948–2022), circa late Nineteen Eighties. Church’s work is in quite a few collections each private and non-private, together with the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, Smithsonian, MFA Boston, and MFA Houston, amongst others.

Brooke Marks-Swanson, Wild Attention #2 — Brooke Marks-Swanson, *Wild Consideration #2,* 2024, necklace, sterling silver, 18-karat gold, freshwater pearls, silk, 18 ½ nches (470 mm), photograph: artist

Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Brooke Marks-Swanson
Retail value: CAN$3,350
Within the work of Brooke Marks-Swanson, repetition and tactility stay on the forefront of reflection throughout manufacturing. All for twisted silver wire, soldered with wonderful gold, she continues her reflection on connection, repetition, time, and persistence. The twisted wire turns into spirals, shaped slowly from the within out, strengthened by gold solders, just like the ancestral filigree approach. The pearl insertions add scrumptious gentle and lightness to her creations.

Annette Dam, Ring, 28 Million Years after Homo Sapiens — Annette Dam, *Ring, 28 Million Years after Homo Sapiens,* 2022, 14-karat gold, amber, rhodochrosite, plastic, resin, 1 ¾ x 1 ⅛ x ¾ inches (45 x 30 x 20 mm), ring dimension US 8.5 (EU 18,5), photograph: Dorte Krogh

Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click on the gallery title to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click on the gallerist’s title for e-mail)
Artist: Annette Dam
Retail value: US$3,900
The amber we discover at the moment is kind of 32 million years outdated. Traces from million of years in the past inform us concerning the evolution of our planet. Wanting 28 million years into the longer term, researchers predict that some plastic supplies will stay on Earth. The non-degradable plastics shall be left behind as fragments and imprints telling tales about Homo sapiens to future inhabitants. On this ring, Annette Dam has mixed fragments from the previous, represented within the amber, with at the moment’s supplies and traces from our present time—for instance plastic hen rings depicting at the moment’s animals and human-processed pure assets. What sort of treasures and imprints can we Homo sapiens add and depart behind?

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