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Sasaki Fumie
Sasaki Fumie’s brooch highlights the interplay between structure and softness. Made from painted stainless steel mesh framed in gold-toned metal, the piece transforms an industrial material into something that appears woven and soft. The fine grid pattern suggests lightness and movement, contrasting with the rigid nature of the medium. Fumie’s work is characterized by its…
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Jiao
Jade is typically carved into solid, unyielding forms, but Jiao’s work challenges this expectation. Using traditional techniques such as chain carving and Devil’s Work Ball, she transforms a single piece of jade into structures that move freely within themselves. The result is jewelry that shifts between states, embodying both solidity and fluidity. The jade ear…
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Helen Habtay
What if desire had an on-off switch? Helen Habtay’s Turn Me On, Switch Me Off (2015) plays with contrasts—organic and industrial, sensual and mechanical. These brooches, made of rose quartz, pink marble, steel, plastic, and electrical switches, combine soft, rounded stone with precise, functional hardware. The result is jewelry that demands interaction, tempting the wearer…
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Jialin Jin (Kelly)
Jialin Jin (Kelly) is a jewelry artist whose work is inspired by organisms’ nervous systems. Her pieces explore multi-layered structures and intricate lines, aiming to translate the complexity of microscopic biological processes into wearable art. Her jewelry often incorporates silicone as a primary material, creating soft, tactile pieces that merge organic forms with contemporary design.…
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Suzana Rezende
A necklace fit for royalty, but not as it seems. Suzana Rezende’s Queen Mary (2006) transforms the opulence of sapphire and diamond jewelry into a fragile, printed textile. The piece mimics the grandeur of a historical necklace yet disrupts expectations with pixelated distortions and paper-like folds. By replacing precious materials, Rezende questions value, authenticity, and…
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Sophie Van Dooren
The sensation of taste is fleeting, but its meaning can last a lifetime. A Taste of Comfort by Sophie Van Dooren transforms the memory of a first taste into a tangible silver object. Part of A Day of Hope, a jewelry series exploring the five senses, this work represents how a single moment of awareness…
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Linda van de Cappelle (Ezerman)
Linda van de Cappelle’s neckpiece is made from felt, concrete with shells, silicone, ink, and glass beads. The materials create a textured surface that resembles natural formations such as coral or lichen. The dark muted tones and clustered shapes give the piece an organic and weathered appearance, suggesting something that has been shaped by time…
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Seulgi Kwon
Jewelry is usually static, but this piece feels alive. Its translucent sacs swell like suspended droplets, while vivid magenta and violet tendrils twist and curl as if responding to an unseen force. There is tension in its form, a delicate balance between movement and stillness, softness and structure, fragility and resilience. Seulgi Kwon’s “Midnight Sun”…
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Yevgeniya Kaganovich
Yevgeniya Kaganovich’s Pearl Necklace Series examines how jewelry functions as a cultural signifier. Pearls have long been associated with prestige, status, and power, but they also carry connotations of purity, innocence, corruption, and seduction. This series explores these contradictions by transforming small freshwater pearls into the illusion of a large, perfect pearl necklace. Kaganovich challenges…
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Catherine Grisez
Exposed Escapees by Catherine Grisez are wearable fragments of a larger sculptural work, Exposed, which blurs the line between jewelry and object. Made from copper, vitreous enamel, and sterling silver, these brooches have an organic, almost skin-like quality. Their smooth, undulating surfaces, edged with soft pink, evoke something bodily sensorial, fragile, and exposed. Part of the Skin Within series, these…
More than decoration. Contemporary art jewelry as desire, discourse, and discovery.
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