Editor’s Picks
André Chervin
The New-York Historical Society brought together a stunning collection of André Chervin of Carvin French Jewelers, showcasing his beloved objets d’art.
Photograph by David Behl.
Volume 45, No. 3
Table of Contents
Features
Blue Gold.
The Story of Indigo
Ancient Hand Skills
and the Contemporary Craftsperson
Nikki Couppee.
Glamorous Seaside Sparkles of Nostalgia
Ken Cory.
An American Trickster
Departments
Rebel Fashion.
Outlaws.
Fashion Renegades
Showcase.
Nikki Couppee
Showcase & Interview.
Blue Gold
Jeweled Arts.
Enchanting Imagination.
The Objets d’art of André Chervin
and Carvin French Jewelers
The Quiet Hand.
Cat Bates.
Utility, Durability, Accessibility, and Beauty
NYC Jewelry Week.
Turning Up the Glitz.
NYC Jewelry Week
ANCIENT HAND SKILLS
& THE CONTEMPORARY CRAFTSPERSON
Robert K. Liu provides a comparison between the ancient and the modern craftsperson, using his own personal experience in making as a reference, as well as ancient examples of crafts.
NIKKI COUPPEE
Ashley Callahan investigates the jewelry of Nikki Couppee, who is inspired by her native Florida. The bright colors, sparkle and glitz of the Sunshine State are recreated in her NeoGems and HoloGems, using silver foil and acrylic to make shining elements.
CARVIN FRENCH JEWELERS
The New-York Historical Society brought together a stunning collection of André Chervin of Carvin French Jewelers, showcasing his beloved objets d’art.
The Process of Becoming
We Share with You the Jewelry Collection of the late Ornament Coeditor, Carolyn L.E. Benesh, who forged strong and intimate bonds with many of the artists whose work she purchased.
Articles, Past and Present
The Expression of the Handmade Makes Itself Felt through Genuineness.
What was Made Took a Combination of Skill and Ingenuity, Birthed From That Mysterious Dark Place of Imagination.
Wearable Art
It came about as a nexus in the 60s and 70s, referencing a freeform fusion of heretofore two-dimensional art and applying it to the canvas of the human being. These clothes as costume and costume as clothes birthed off a movement that still has its adherents even now, in the contemporary age.
Jewelry has had to find itself in the Modernist age, transcending the fine jewelry of wealth at the turn of the century, and reaching mid-century the abstracted explorations of material, composition, and storytelling that would yield to the contemporary art jewelry movement. Today, contemporary art jewelry remains a creatively vibrant field, a cross-disciplinary cooperation that branches off into academic work and that sold at craft shows.
We bring you the broad spectrum of human self-expression in wearable art, from the ancient and the ethnic, to the contemporary. Both here in the United States, and abroad.
Here are a few of the jewelers and clothing makers in the wearable art community for your enjoyment. We will continue to rotate this selection each month, so you will always find superlative new work to explore.
AMY NGUYEN, SHIBORI DYED CLOTHING
KEN LOEBER & DONA LOOK, JEWELRY
BIBA SCHUTZ, JEWELRY
JANICE KISSINGER, HAND-DYED FELTED CLOTHING
K. RILEY, HANDMADE BLOCK-PRINT CLOTHING
JUDITH KINGHORN, JEWELRY
Intelligent Reading.
Enter a world where experience and skill cooperate with imagination and materials to create astounding objects. The spectrum of human adornment extends from tribal and folk cultures around the globe, to the rarefied heights of the fashion industry, to contemporary art jewelry and craft which seeks to explore new boundaries.
Robert K. Liu provides a comparison between the ancient and the modern craftsperson, using his own personal experience in making as a reference, as well as ancient examples of crafts.