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Venessa Hogge - efflorescent flowers
Vanessa Hogge is inspired by all things botanical. She creates dahlias, chrysanthemums, dashes, hydrangeas and daphne in pristine white porcelain and black clay. Her compositions are efflorescent in that they “flower out” as though they were blooms from an internally held salt in water. Hogge’s…
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Yong Joo Kim - the process of reconfiguration
Yong Joo Kim explores the value of the mundane, industrial material, velcro. She hand-cuts, sews and “reconfigures” it into wearable art. The result of her extensive, controlled exploration is quite literally beyond words. Being both subtle and in your face bold at the same time, Kim’s…
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Attai Chen - Uncommon Materials, Uncommon Applications
Attai Chen utilizes wood, paper, silver, graphite, paint and stainless steel in his jewelry and sculptural reliefs. He describes his work as “a body consisting of independent, self-contained, multidimensional entities in a process of bonding.” You don’t see the…
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Gerda and Nikolai Monies - the natural and the extraordinary
Gerda and Nikolai Monies, known by their Danish artistic entity 'Monies', create fashion forward statement pieces that consistently turn heads. The collaborative couple is incredibly prolific, using materials that include natural crystals, semi-precious stone, ebony,…
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Deb Stoner - flora through her lens
Over the last 3 decades Deb Stoner has been a designer of eyewear, a maker of contemporary jewelry and a photographer. Her current ongoing project involves the growing of plants and painstakingly photographing them - to hold their moment in time. Stoner’s botanical portraits are beyond…
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Hirotoshi Itoh - Stone Sculpture with Humor and Imagination
Hirotoshi Itoh sculpts stone and transforms it into the unexpected. His subject matter captures your immediate attention. Some of it has a great sense of humor. Other pieces plain just defy belief. His is a master’s hand, taking something…
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The epicenter of West Coast Art Jewelry kicks off its return to LA with a special show at the Kopeikin Gallery. Featuring 2Roses, Jillian Moore, Claudia Endler, Lynn K. Altman, Greg Orloff, Gina Pankowski, Kathleen Lamberti, Marc Cohen, Shuilii, & Swinda…
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Gyongy Laky - art, craft, design, engineering, architecture, activism, environmentalism
Gyongy Laky is attracted to humble materials. Wood, wire, screws, nails and some unexpected items work their way into her vessels and sculpture. Her work speaks with a loud voice for the environment and social issues.…
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Ken Price - the discipline of working your voice
We enjoy the connection between polymer clay and earth clay. Perhaps this is why we’re featuring another ceramicist for Monday’s Child. Shown is the earlier work of Ken Price, created in the late 1980s-early 1990s. What drew our attention was the discipline in the development of…
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Become a member of Art Jewelry Forum in October and be entered to win one of 10 copies of CAST: Art and Objects Made Using Humanity's Most Transformative Process.
CAST is perfect for makers, educators, curators, and collectors. It’s an inside look at the process of casting and how it has literally shaped the history of…
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Tomoko Sakumoto - the power of line and form
Tomoko Sakumoto creates ceramics using simple shapes and lines. These are not your usual striped pieces. They are extremely precise - so much so that the design elements of the lines are completely in sync with the form. At first, you’re tempted to just give them a cursory glance because the…
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Molly Aleza Vogel - a contemporary approach to carving jet
Jet is a type of lignite, a precursor to coal, and is a gemstone. It has an organic origin, being derived from decaying wood under extreme pressure. Jet is a deep, dark black. Vogel carves jet with an expert hand and she pushes this medium to delicious heights. Working in…
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Michael Sherrill - when a creative voice has multiple octaves
We wanted to demonstrate how one strong creative voice can sing in different octaves. Ceramicist Michael Sherrill does just that - and he does it quite well. His tea pots and vessels are beautifully abstracted with areas of solid color.…
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Arline Fisch - Metal as a Textile
Arline Fisch is legendary in the world of the metal arts. Throughout her career, she has developed ways of combining the textures of weaving with a metal material. She goes way beyond the development of technique. Fisch’s work dives deep into concept and because of this, she continues to be a…
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JoAnne Russo - basketry of the highest order
Recently at the IPCA’s Synergy4 event, Kathleen Nowak Tucci gave a compelling presentation about elevating low materials to art status. The work of basket artist JoAnne Russo brought back many of the points Kathleen made during her general session. JoAnne Russo very effectively utilizes low…
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Terri Kern - crafting an engaging story
Terri Kern considers herself to be a “hands on” artist. This means she does everything from wedging the clay, doing all of the hand building, relief carving, applying the many layers of color under glazing and preparing/unstacking her kiln. Her work is representational, in that…
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For your mind-boggling amusement..."Hyper Reality" a short video statement by Keiichi Matsuda.
Julia Toledo - Wood as a Moving, Precious Material
Artist Julia Toledo creates fluid, graceful wearable art from individually shaped pieces of wood. Their movement represents the dancing body and as a dancer, Toledo captures grace and style perfectly. We’ve also shown a close-up of a necklace with its…
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