On Supply – Artwork Jewellery Discussion board

July 2024, Half 2
There are such a lot of causes to buy artwork jewellery…
- Have a good time that hard-earned promotion
- Honor a once-in-a-lifetime event
- Pay tribute to a serious 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 bi-monthly On Supply collection permits this intensive community of worldwide galleries to showcase extraordinary items personally chosen to tempt and encourage you. Have a look. You’re sure to discover a implausible piece you merely can’t stay with out! (Please contact the gallery immediately for inquiries.)
Gallery: Brooklyn Metallic Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Aminata Conteh (click on the identify for e mail)
Artist: Sulo Bee
Retail value: US$1,900
An necessary a part of Sulo Bee’s artist follow is the act of world-building. Their present scope of labor serves as specimens or artifacts from an summary realm referred to as $P4RKL3_FiLTH_CL0UD_NiN3, which necklaces like GL0WiNG[petalz] make extra tangible. Particular stones and rocks are mixed with colourful gooey-like materials, pressed collectively, and squished with crushed seashells or asphalt collected from the trail resulting in the maker’s house—collectively they create proof of this alternate actuality. GL0WiNG[petalz] is introduced as part of Makeshift [Gardenz], Sulo Bee’s solo exhibition at Brooklyn Metallic Works, on view July 12–August 25, 2024.

Gallery: Pistachios Up to date Artwork Jewellery, Chicago, IL, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: The Pistachios Crew (click on the staff identify for e mail)
Artist: Karin Jacobson
Retail value: US$3,995
These one-of-a-kind earrings characteristic Montana sapphires in good hues of sea inexperienced and slate blue that descend from Karin Jacobson’s signature origami particulars. Adorned with post-consumer recycled diamonds, that are an environmentally accountable different to virgin diamonds, this pair is a superb choice for anybody involved with having the smallest environmental footprint doable.

Gallery: Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Patricia Kiley Faber (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Atelier Munsteiner
Retail value: US$17,500
Atelier Munsteiner—the German studio comprising three generations of gem cutters and jewellery makers—has modified the gemstone world with their abstract-cut gems over the previous 5 many years, going from a curiosity in 1960 to a vibrant expressive artwork type embraced all through the gemstone trade. This ring, minimize by Tom Munsteiner (1969–2023), embodies the artwork and beauty of their work.

Gallery: 4 Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Sofia Björkman
Retail value: US$1,600
Sofia Björkman acquired a 3D pen as a birthday present, and that was the start of a brand new physique of labor. The tree-dimensional drawings are about wilderness, about environmental impression—burnt landscapes, genetically modified vegetation, and affected animals. The human physique is a panorama by which jewellery will be positioned. From there the piece can journey, in area and in time, from one context to a different.

Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Helena Johansson Lindell
Retail value: US$400 (stand included)
Helena Johansson Lindell works with hierarchical buildings and prejudices. She embraces supplies and strategies that, from a societal perspective, are thought-about to have low standing however are ceaselessly utilized in popular culture. In parallel together with her creative follow, we discover her on curler skates in skate parks, exhibiting that jewellery additionally will be worn whereas doing sports activities. Arts, crafts, sports activities, and popular culture meet in fantastic, stunning combos.

Gallery: Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, US (click on the museum identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Ken Irish (click on the identify for e mail)
Artist: Corey Moranis
Retail value: US$200
Corey Moranis is a Canadian designer who handcrafts Lucite jewellery and equipment from her Toronto studio. She’s drawn to Lucite for its ethereal nature; it appears to drift however has a stable presence, and its luminous impact modifications with the sunshine from day to nighttime. Crystalline and prismatic, the playful loops, knots, and twists of her elemental items are knowledgeable by the medium itself, making a contemporary assertion with a whisper. Every Moranis piece is one-of-a-kind—a hand-bent, wearable murals.

Gallery: Funaki, Melbourne, Australia (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Katie Scott (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Manon van Kouswijk
Retail value: AUS$480
These brightly coloured beaded necklaces, by Manon van Kouswijk, slip between diagrammatic formalism when introduced as a gaggle on a wall, and free, joyful wearability on the physique. A primary collection titled Beads for Buildings and Our bodies was proven at Alta Forma final 12 months within the exhibition Wall Arms & Desk Legs. On this second collection of works, van Kouswijk pushes the concepts embodied in these earlier works to new logical, however stunning, factors. Glass seed beads, a extremely ornamental materials, are utilized in a methodical method: numerical sequences and elementary geometrical shapes are beaded to grow to be objects that may be pinned on the wall as three-dimensional materials drawings or worn on the physique in a number of methods. On this shift from structure to physique, from the wall to the chest, they remodel from static geometry to versatile, playful jewellery.

Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Mélanie Denis
Retail value: CAN$1,900
Utilizing all kinds of supplies, Mélanie Denis’s work expresses totally different themes akin to human complexity, reminiscence, and id. Via ingenious composition, she creates graphic results utilizing clear Plexiglas, revealing photos printed on acetate that distinction with textured, colourful parts akin to earthenware and grosgrain ribbon.

Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Julie Blyfield
Retail value: AUS$660
These Segmented earrings, by Julie Blyfield, are massive however tremendous light-weight as a result of she makes use of a hand-chasing method to type the shapes. This permits Blyfield to create stunning textures, by chasing the road work and forming a hole again within the piece, giving a way of quantity. Blyfield is a really well-known and prolific up to date jewellery and object maker based mostly in Adelaide, South Australia. This 12 months the JamFactory has chosen her to be their “icon” artist, which includes a big solo present and a e book—maintain your eyes peeled! She has created a brand new physique of labor which showcases her signature strategy of hand chasing.

Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Chloë Le Pichon (click on the identify for e mail)
Artist: Andrea Haffner
Retail value: US$175
These earrings characteristic actual dried botanical parts suspended inside pigmented resin. The resin seems to have an internal glow, making the earrings radiant and distinctive.

Gallery: Galerie Door, Marienheide, Netherlands (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Moniek Schrijer
Retail value: €2,500
A few of New Zealand’s historic caves are house to worms and beetles that tempt prey and/or companions with sticky threads and fluorescent colours. These historic caves and woods impressed Moniek Schrijer for her newest collection of extremely seductive artwork jewellery, akin to her Feeler II necklace with glowing colours, translucent glass drops, and curling and crawling threads—or is it a critter?

Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Edu Tarín
Retail value: €4,350
“Within the G0 collection, every pendant has been historically hand-carved,” explains Edu Tarín. “As soon as the pendant is completed, two 3D scans are made: one of many completed pendant and one other of a tough stone in the identical materials. This permits me to create a CNC-machined engraving of the unfavourable of the pendant into the pure stone. On this method, the pendant is partially laying on it, creating an interaction of applied sciences, a dialog between methodologies, the place the ‘what’ generates as a mirrored image of the ‘how.’”

Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Eija Mustonen
Retail value: €3,600, plus delivery
We want safety from warmth, chilly, filth, shocks, eyes. We want safety when working within the backyard, thinning the forest, tilling the soil, engaged on a constructing website, cooking within the kitchen, preventing, being within the solar, in heavy rain, assembly others. Eija Mustonen’s hammered and folded steel works will be seen as a part of the physique’s clothes, akin to sleeves and skirts, or as a protecting a part of the physique. The environment of those works is a combination of the historic and the up to date. This piece is a part of the exhibition Gardens and Shelters, built-in into the second Lisbon jewellery biennial.

Gallery: Baltimore Jewellery Middle, Baltimore, MD, US (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click on the identify for e mail)
Artist: Cindy Cheng
Retail value: US$375
This brooch is an almost-lucky allure—it was fortunate, however life (within the type of two little worms) has began feasting on its magical fourth leaf. C’est la vie! Created by Cindy Cheng, a sculptor, papermaker, and jeweler who lives and works in Baltimore, MD, US, this piece is a playful reminder to not take issues too severely. Cheng acquired her BA from Mount Holyoke Faculty and an MFA from MICA’s Mount Royal Faculty of Artwork. She is pushed by a thirst for brand new expertise and grabs any alternative to take part in workshops at craft colleges together with Penland, Haystack, Arrowmont, and the Baltimore Jewellery Middle.

Gallery: Galleria Antonella Villanova, Florence, Italy (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Antonella Villanova (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Helen Britton
Retail value: €9,000
This necklace represents Helen Britton’s most iconic work, the place her consideration to construction and structure is clear. “I’m fascinated by buildings and the way the elements are linked to one another in a constructing,” says Britton.

Gallery: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click on the gallery identify to hyperlink to the web site)
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click on the gallerist’s identify for e mail)
Artist: Mariko Sumioka
Retail value: €1,220
Tokyo-based artist Mariko Sumioka creates sculptural jewellery evocative of each East and West. Her inspiration is deeply rooted in structure and her love of containers. She is fascinated by architectural parts, and he or she developed her distinctive summary aesthetic by combining valuable metals with bamboo, enamel, patina, and vintage kimonos. This collaging strategy is a necessary a part of her artistic course of, together with a love for fantastically crafted particulars. The tales instructed inside these miniature valuable compositions are unfinished—it’s as much as you, the wearer, to invent the remainder.
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