Susan and Jeff Wise: An Exhibition of Modern Jewelry
Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Olivia Shih Susan and Jeff Wise collaborate not only as man and wife, but to make jewelry together. The couple is known for cutting their own sculptural...
View ArticleART JEWELRY FORUM COMMISIONS LIMITED-EDITION PIN FROM NOTABLE ARTIST EMIKO OYE
Brooch is the fifth in a collectible series designed by prominent art jewelers Art Jewelry ForumArt Jewelry Forum is pleased to announce that it has commissioned American jeweler emiko oye to create a...
View ArticleIn Memory of Margaret West
Julie EwingtonMargaret West, jeweler and poet, lived a life rich beyond most imaginations. And it was on her own terms, through intellectual energy, fierce love of beauty, and compassion. From what was...
View ArticleEric Silva: Instinct
Gallery Lulo, Healdsburg, California, USA Susan Cummins Instinct is an apt title for Eric Silva’s show at Gallery Lulo. As a self-educated artist, Eric uses his natural impulses to work with...
View ArticleHow/Should artists tackle the social? NYT’s A.O.Scott asks a group of...
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View ArticleSelf-yelp, or the rise amateur reviews in a post-critical world
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View ArticleStrange Bedfellows
Lauren Kalman, Modern Furniture, Ornament, and Religion Gabriel CraigAs Kalman’s work has progressed, there has consistently been more explicit sexual content, though it has never been gratuitous. If...
View ArticleTed's World makes headlines at Design Miami
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View ArticleSEULGI KWON WINS ART JEWELRY FORUM ARTIST AWARD
Art Jewelry ForumAJF is pleased to announce that Seulgi Kwon has been selected to receive the 2014 Art Jewelry Forum Artist Award for an emerging jeweler. Kwon was chosen from 123 entries representing...
View ArticleSydney Lynch: Interpreting Her World
Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, New York, USA Susan Cummins Sydney Lynch is a hard-working, self-supporting jeweler. In this interview she describes how she makes a living by creating jewelry, and what...
View ArticleAndrea Wagner: ... And the Architect Is Still Facing His Jardin Intérieur
Platina, Stockholm, Sweden Susan Cummins The show of work by Andrea Wagner at Platina gave me an opportunity to catch up with the artist. I first met her in Amsterdam when she and several other...
View ArticleRebecca Myers
Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Bonnie Levine Rebecca Myers has been designing and fabricating custom jewelry for more than 20 years. Drawn to the sculptural, engineering, and...
View ArticleErnestine Mills, Angel of Hope
One on One nº12 V. Irene Cockroft This kaleidoscope of colors, allied to the popularity of colored stones in their own right, makes identification of suffrage jewelry problematic unless provenance can...
View ArticleHere is something to make your blood boil … write the editor of the NYTs!!
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View ArticleAimee Petkus
Heidi Lowe Gallery, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, USA Missy GraffI feel like there is a lot of crossover between art jewelry and fashion. Many people view fashion in the same way they view art, but it’s...
View ArticlePeter Bauhuis: Armillaria
Gallery S O, London, England Susan CumminsArmillaria (actually Armillaria mellea) is the Latin name for the honey fungus—a species of fungus that forms a huge and invisible underground network. When...
View ArticleMyra Mimlitsch-Gray
Master Metalsmith MMXIV Elizabeth MurphyLooking at these pieces as fine art in a museum—where we are supposed to suspend awareness of monetary value—completes the through-line to Mimlitsch-Gray’s body...
View ArticleJorge Manilla: Oscure Sacrifices
Four, Gothenburg, Sweden Susan CumminsBlack is traditionally a powerful and foreboding color, representing death, destruction, doom, fear, and sorrow; especially when used alone, black represents...
View ArticleEvert Nijland: Ascendance
Galerie Rob Koudijs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Susan CumminsThe theme for this series is the so-called “centerpiece.” The topic “ornamental object” is for me a natural extension of my research into...
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