Karen Gilbert

CONTEMPORARY ALTERNATIVE
Healdsburg, CA

Karen Gilbert is noted for using glass as the primary medium in her jewelry, mostly using pyrex as a more durable form of glass. She also uses a variety of other unusual materials, such as geodes and semiprecious stones made into small beads, and fabric. Her work utilizes repetitive elements to build a more complex form, as is seen in this pendant. She also co-owns Gallery Lulo in Healdsburg, California, which she shares with Dutch artist Anne-Kathrine Schjerbeck. The gallery’s name comes from a portmanteau of their sons’ names.