bijoux de France, bijoux « bonbec » en résine

« Elles sont faites à la main à Chantenay. Dans la boutique du Museum of modern art de la Grosse pomme, les bijoux des Pingouins racontent un peu de Nantes.
On en mangerait ! Couleurs acidulées, formes tendres, toucher velouté, ces bijoux ressemblent à des bonbecs. Bracelets, bagues, pendentifs, broches naissent dans l’atelier des Pingouins à Chantenay.

Créée en 2004, la petite entreprise de Blandine Berthelot et Matthieu Rébillard ne connaît pas la crise. « Nous en vivons tous les deux mais on ne roule pas sur l’or pour autant ! », sourit Blandine, ancienne étudiante en design. Leurs créations épurées, accessibles, habillent aussi bien les élégantes des bords de Loire que celles d’Anvers, Tokyo ou San Francisco. « La boutique du Moma à New York est un de nos meilleurs clients. » Un bon filon, ces échoppes de centres d’art contemporain que le duo voudrait développer, à travers notamment sa participation aux grands salons européens.
Tout part de cette résine polyester, achetée liquide et translucide en fûts de 220 kg. « Lors de son dernier stage, Matthieu a travaillé la résine. À l’époque, j’étais très branchée bijoux, je planchais sur la couleur, je me suis dit que la résine offrait d’énormes possibilités. » Brillante, mat, translucide, cette matière permet de jouer à l’infini sur les textures. Dans leur atelier, près des chantiers de l’Esclain, la résine passe entre les bras de machines très spécialisées. Moulée, durcie, poncée, elle devient parure multicolore. « Moins dure que le verre, elle se raye plus facilement mais est moins cassante. » Dans leur collection cohabitent des modèles d’origine plébiscités, accessibles (entre 20 et 30 €), et des produits « sur lesquels on se lâche un peu plus en création », plus chers, comme les colliers Paula.
En septembre, le nouveau site internet des Pingouins permettra la vente en ligne. D’ici là, rendez-vous avec Blandine et Mathieu à la boutique du musée des Beaux-arts de Nantes à la fin du mois. » (Magali GRANDET – OuestFrance.fr)

gamme ‘polair’ 

 

Les Pingouins, vente directe à l’atelier, du lundi au vendredi, 23, boulevard de Chantenay. Téléphoner avant au 02 40 58 60 23. Collection des Pingouins à voir sur : www.lespingouins.com

 

LES PINGOUINS
23 boulevard de Chantenay
44100 NANTES
FRANCE
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EXPO ‘Arline Fisch : Creatures from the Deep’ – Bellevue Arts Museum, USA – 22 juin-11 oct 2010

For almost forty years, world-renowned jeweler Arline Fisch has pioneered the application of textile techniques in the creation of jewelry, but she has rarely forayed outside this realm. Creatures from the Deep, originally commissioned by Racine Art Museum in 2008, challenged the artist to bring her work to a grand scale, using knitting and crocheting techniques to create ‘families’ of jellyfish out of her signature color-coated copper wire.

Arline Fisch – ‘Creatures of the Deep’, 2008 – Coated copper wire

Each of Fisch’s ‘families’ in the installation varies dramatically in form and color, suggesting different species of jellies. A series of corals and sea anemones rest below, all fabricated in the same very small gauge of wire through hand and machine knitting and hand crochet.

Fisch first explored jellyfish in her silver work in the mid-1960s, fascinated by their many forms and brilliant colors, and then revisited the form in a necklace based on the Lion’s Mane Jellyfish in 1999. For this commission, she again chose the creature as her theme, inspired by Racine Art Museum’s proximity to the waters of Lake Michigan. The larger-than-life sea creatures in Fisch’s installation, now traveling for the first time, seem right at home in the Puget Sound. Suspended in air and swaying together in the galleries, they submerse visitors in a captivating and otherworldly undersea environment.

Arline Fisch is a perennial figure in the metals community and author of the book Textile Techniques in Metal, published in 1975, 1996 and 2001. She currently holds the title of Professor of Art Emerita at San Diego State University.

Arline Fisch – ‘Corals’ (detail), 2009 Coated copper wire
Arline Fisch – ‘Orthocannas’  (detail), 2008 Coated copper wire  (Photos:  William Gullette)

Arline Fisch: Creatures from the Deep is organized by the Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin. This exhibition is made possible by Racine Art Museum

 

Bellevue Arts Museum (BAM)
510 Bellevue Way NE 
Bellevue, WA 98004  (USA)
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EXPO ’2nd annual “Earrings Galore” group show’ – Heidi Lowe Gallery, US – 22 mai-6 juill. 2010

The second annual “Earrings Galore” group show at Heidi Lowe Gallery will showcase dozens of artists this year. From 6-9 p.m. Saturday, June 12, the gallery will host an opening reception in conjunction with Rehoboth Beach’s “Mosaic” art walk.
“Last year, ‘Earrings Galore’ was one of our most successful shows,” gallery owner Lowe said. “This year I am finding a new, fun, and unexpected way to display the earrings. The type of earring someone wears can say a lot about the person. So, I am displaying a lot of different styles to appeal to as many women as possible. The display will only enhance the earrings’ ‘cool factor’.”
The complete show will be on display until July 6 and features artists from across the United States as well as London. A partial display will be on display through September.

Melissa Borrell

Anya Kivarkis earrings

The Opulent Project- Costume Costume: Ring-Top Earrings -2010 -Enamel Painted Brass, Silver
Eliana Arenas Orange Earrings – 2010 – Mixed Media

Soyeon KIM – White and Pink Earrings -2010 – Pearls, Glass and Silver

Yevgeniya Kaganovich - Pearl and Rubber Earrings-2010 -Pearls, Rubber,  Silver

Mary Pearse – Crowning Earrings – 2010 – Silver

Lynette Andreasen earrings

Lynette Andreasen – more earrings  !!

ARTISTS : Lynette Andreasen — Eliana Arenas — Megan Auman — Jill Baker Gower — Arden Bardol — Thyra Bessette — Kristine Bolhuis — Allyson Bone — Melissa Borrell — Brenda Bregman — Ashley Buchanan — Laura Buckland — Raissa Bump — Analya Cespedes — Jim Charles — Susannah Fitz — Christina Goodman — Colleen Heineman — Annie Hinkes — Sarah Holden — Janet Huddie — Chris Irick — Yevgenia Kaganovich – Janis Kerman — Soyeon Kim — Kristin Lora — The Opulant Project – Jimin Park — Mary Pearse — Beth Pohlman — Shella Robinson — Alice Roche — Jessica Rosenkratz — Hyseung Shin — Amy Tavern — Jennifer Theokary — Stephanie Tomczak — Katja Toporski — Karola Torkos — Ben Ulsh — Veleta Vanza — Stephanie Voegele — Sadie Wang — Stacey Webber

 

Karola Torkos (UK) – Cluster Hoops -2010 -plastic, silver

Stephanie Voegele -Lime Green Chandelier Earrings- Plastic, flock, paint, epoxy, nickle silver – 2010

 

 

 

Heidi Lowe Gallery
Innovative Jewelry Studio
328 Rehoboth Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (DE) 19971
302-227-9203
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EXPO ‘Addition and Subtraction’ – Heidi Lowe Gallery, US – 19 juin-13 aout 2010

« Two new collections of jewelry will be exhibited at Heidi Lowe Gallery as part of the Rehoboth Beach art loop from 6-9 p.m. Saturday, July 10. The opening of “Addition and Subtraction” by Sarah Loertscher and Gayle Friedman will be on display through Aug. 13.
“This show contrasts two women jewelry artists who are dissimilar in many ways but are harmonious in others,” gallery owner Lowe said. “The juxtaposition of Sarah’s complex yet specific shapes with Gayle’s free-form pieces showcases the broad spectrum of styles that fall under the umbrella of ‘art jewelry’. Despite this, they both use similar materials and techniques to reach two different conclusions.”
For those who cannot attend the Saturday opening, Heidi Lowe Gallery will host an opening for locals from 6-9 p.m. Tuesday, July 13. Tuesday was selected because there is less traffic and more parking than during the weekend.
Seattle-based artist Loertscher received a bachelor’s degree in metalsmithing from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. Friedman is from Washington, D.C., and uses unexpected materials in her jewelry. »

Sarah Loertscher (US) -  Structure Jewels Earrings – 2010 – Sterling Silver

Gayle Friedman (US) -  Earrings – 2010 – Silver

 

 

Heidi Lowe Gallery
Innovative Jewelry Studio
328 Rehoboth Avenue
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (DE) 19971
302-227-9203
[e-mail]

COUP de COEUR ! Jesse Mathes : « Elizabethan » neckpieces

« … An early interest in beaded jewelry led to a focus on Jewelry and Metalwork courses where Jesse Mathes was encouraged to create work outside the realms of traditional body adornment, and to unite craft with fine art. She spent a semester studying abroad at the University of Dundee in Scotland where she became interested in the clothing of Queen Elizabeth I.  Upon returning from this experience she began studying costume design, and started creating work inspired by historical clothing.  She entered the graduate program in Jewelry and Metalsmithing at Indiana University in 2001 where she was encouraged to continue exploring unconventional body adornment.   After completing a Masters of Fine Arts degree in  2004, she opened Gallery Mathes in Terre Haute, Indiana which featured contemporary jewelry and fine craft.« 

Ruff - Copper, Prismacolor

‘Rebato’ - Aluminum

Elizabethan Collar, Two - Copper, Prismacolor

 

Sphere Necklace, silver.-
Crotched green copper wire disk Necklace (both The David Collection)

 

COUP de COEUR ! Andrea Janosik, silver & leather jewelry

Andrea Janosik, Slovaquian, is a graduate from Parsons School of Design & Eugene Lange College, New York, with a BA/BFA in product design/metals and creative writing. After graduating, she continued her education at the New York Studio School of Painting and Sculpture and the Lern Ort Studio, and later at the School of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf, Germany. Ms. Janosik has exhibited at “SOFA” in both New York and Chicago, and many other galleries And museums in the US and Germany. In 2008 she exhibited in a juried craft show at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC.

 » Andrea Janosik has become a specialist in working with leather. Using a variety of leathers, including cords and flat pieces, she created very sculptural pieces. Many pieces are made rolling the leather into shapes, such as the cones in the necklace above, or other techniques of folding or bunching the leather. Her work is very laborious as she spends hours precisely cutting and shaping the leather pieces. »

Andrea Janosik, Orange bracelet, 2007, oxidized sterling silver, rolled suede leather

Andrea Janosik, Red spike bracelet, 2008, stacked leather and oxidized sterling silver, tied with leather cord

 

blue necklace

bracelet 

Blue Brooch - sIlver and suede - 2007

« The Brooklyn based artist was born in Slovakia and as a child lived in both Africa and Germany before coming to New York to continue her education. Janosik, the AJF’s 2007 Emerging Artist Award winner, is clearly influenced by her rich cultural experience, offering a variety of combinations ….« 

Andrea Janosik, Yellow cone necklace, 2009, rolled leather, leather cord, and oxidized sterling silver

cord bracelet – 2006

 

Find an interesting interview of Andrea Janosik on the blog « For the love of jewels »

COUP de COEUR ! Catherine JACQUET – le plastique en folie

Catherine JACQUET
ne travaille QUE les plastiques recyclés … cuisson de tétines de biberons, de CDs, de rideaux de douche ……….

‘Camisole joyeuse’ – Du livre « camisoles »

« Je travaille principalement les objets ordinaires de notre quotidien
issus le plus souvent de nos déchets ménagers
Je transforne ce banal qui ne plait à personne,
celui que l’on rejette, celui qui dérange. « 

Plasticienne à l’origine, elle avait commencé par un collier pour son aspirateur, m’a-t-elle dit, pour le rendre plus beau …. j’ai adoré cette idée ! cet humour, cette ironie se retrouvent dans les titres, qui me font souvent sourire …. découverte à la 1ere édition de « Bijoutiful » à NIMES, en 2007 … qu’est-ce qu’on a rigolé !!! lui ai acheté toutes ses grandes « pièces » !!

« Bijoux de mur » Nîmes 2007 – Au salon Bijoutiful à Nîmes, stand de vente. Je vends les pages d’un livre qui est sans cesse renouvelé. Les clientes comme dans une boutique décrochent, essaient et remettent au clou.

Ses bijoux DOIVENT être essayés : mouvants, mobiles, vivants, suivant le corps et ses mouvements, se plaçant de moult manières différentes, ils vous suivent -et même auditivement, d’un léger « ploc-ploc » discret- et ne sont pas gagnants sur les photographies mais prennent vie sur un corps !

collier « Marianne » !!   en souvenir d’une merveilleuse visite à Collioure l’été 2007 ! )

Collier ‘CASCADE’ —   Collier  grand bleu ‘Habibi’

collier « Jardin d’un jour » – nylon, rocaille et fleurs. Réglable

collier « Les affaires marchent »

« Bijoux fleurs, du livre « les bijoux de mur  » séries de linéaires à suspendre au mur. Ou bien à porter autour du cou, ouverts ou fermés selon l’humeur. « bijoux » en vrai plastique recyclé (bouteilles, pot de fleurs, bassine, flacons….. j’essaie tout, et quelque fois ça marche). Mais pas de pâte Fimo !« 

bijoux « kourt-circuit » – collier ‘K-tango piano’ – grand enroulement

‘Grande tarte à l’abricot’ – Dans la série « bijoux qui tiennent chaud » : toujours à base de plastique (tissus polaire) très grand linéaire ici enroulé sur 3 rangs – (à voir à la « Galerie Caractère » de Neuchâtel (Suisse))

‘A.O.C.’ – Du livre des « bijoux de mur » : 3 linéaires transparents qui attrapent bien la lumière, et peuvent chacun s’ouvrir ou rester fermés comme sur la photo

 

voir ses créations ICI 

EXPO ‘AIGUA’ – Dterra Gallery, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona (ES) – 11 Juin-30 Sept 2010

This is the second exhibition of the tematic series “The four elements” proposed by Dterra for 2010

Artists Art jewelry :
Eugènia Besora, Emilie Bliguet, Roberta Ferreira, Grego García Tebar, Ana Heimann, Olga Hernández, Laura Jener, Yumi Kato, Carme Ortiz, Gemma Pampalona, Cinta Sala, Marta Sànchez Oms, Bárbara Sendino, Tomoko Umemoto, Ana María Vicens, Renata Wülfinghoff.

Yumi Kato – necklace ‘Under the ocean’ 2010 Silk Kimono fabric, polyester, silver wire, leather string

 

Grego García Tebar – pin ‘H2O 7 water molecules’ 2010 Silver oxidized, gold, enamel, pearl and steel Double pin

 

 

Dterra Gallery
Anselm Clavé, 9
08172 – Sant Cugat del Vallès (Barcelona)
Spain
Telephone: [phone]
website: www.dterra.es
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COUP de COEUR ! Naomi Filmer – focus sur ce corps qu’on ignore …

Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft

« Naomi Filmer studied jewellery design and is based in Milan and London. She is preoccupied with the body, fascinated by its shapes, sounds and movements. By capturing a facial gesture on film, or the sound of someone clearing their throat, she abstracts the familiar and makes it strange. With her three-dimensional pieces Filmer chooses not to adorn but to celebrate the human form. By casting an elbow or the back of a knee, and magnifying and isolating them inside glass lenses, she is setting the jewels of the body.
In Filmer’s practice she is both hands-on and hands-off: sketching and casting metal, and also working like a producer by collaborating closely with sound designers, glassblowers and cameramen.
‘The work I make focuses on ordinary parts of the body that we never really celebrate, but actually there is nothing ordinary about them at all, they are unique to every individual. By isolating them, and making a spectacle out of them, they are made extraordinary. I am interested in recognisable sounds like breathing – there is nothing more familiar than the sound of your own breath. If you capture those sounds, amplify and repeat them, they become unfamiliar.’  »

ring – on book “Fashion Jewelry: Catwalk and Couture”

Naomi Filmer (UK) – ‘Ice Jewellery’ (Photo: Philip Sayer) 1999
Naomi Filmer- ‘A Sensual Shiver’  2000

Naomi Filmer, Chocolate Mask, 2001. (Photo: Richard Burbridge)

Naomi Filmer, Lenticular: ‘Elbow Lens’ (right), 2007

Naomi Filmer for Anne-Valerie Hash – gold-plated shoulder piece (on right)

Naomi Filmer, Finished piece: ‘Orchid Neck Piece’ ( left) for Anne Valerie Hash S/S 2009 Couture collection

 

 

BOOK :

“Fashion Jewelry: Catwalk and Couture” – Maia Adams

EXPO ‘Magpie new adventures in jewellery’ – Taupo Museum (New Zealand) – 6 mai-29 juin 2010

Magpie new adventures in jewellery celebrates a highly distinctive generation of New Zealanders who are redefining contemporary jewellery.

Pauline Bern – « Mend »

Kristin D’Agostino

This feast of extraordinary works showcases over 20 jewellers – from international stars such as Lisa Walker, Pauline Bern and the members of the Weeds Collective to a wave of recent tertiary graduate jewellers. What connects them is an approach to making that grows from and responds to an increasingly diverse array of materials.
A strong interest in textile traditions is a key feature but it doesn’t stop there. Plastics, felting, cockle shells, latex, postage stamps, cake tins, old coins, jigsaw puzzles and product packaging all pour forth from a veritable global cornucopia. In these jewellers’ hands discarded waste and cheap ‘$2 shop’ goods are as ‘precious’ as silver and gold.
Magpie is curated by Tim Walker, former director of The NewDowse and has been commissioned in association with Taupo Museum. Schools and community workshops will be available.

 

Magpie – New adventures in jewellery features : Pauline Bern, Robyn Singh, Lisa Walker, Ilse-Marie Erl, Renee Bevan, Sharon Fitness, Nadene Carr, Joanna Campbell, Mary Curtis, Fran Allison, Rachel Bell, Andrea Daly, Jennifer Braithwaite, Victoria McIntosh, Ross Malcolm, Cath Dearsley, Shelley Norton, Matthew McIntyre Wilson, Karen Michaud, Jacqui Chan, Anna Ward (Carr), Kristin Toller, Jhana Millers, Octavia Cook.

Magpie – New adventures in jewellery is on at Taupo Museum until 29th June 2010.

Jhana Millers, Charm Bracelet

Lisa Walker

Lisa Walker

« Jeweller-designer Kristin D’Agostino is interested in exploring the community aspect of contemporary jewellery. Walk and talk with her around streets of central Taupo for an hour.
Working with the Magpie exhibition theme she has chosen 9 sites to correspond with the Magpie nursery rhyme « One for Sorrow », a traditional children’s nursery rhyme about magpies. According to an old superstition the number of magpies one sees determines if one will be lucky or not.
 

One for sorrow, two for joy,
Three for a girl, four for a boy,
Five for silver, six for gold,
Seven for a secret, never to be told,
Eight for a wish, nine for a kiss,
Ten for a time of joyous bliss.

Participants will be asked to keep a magpie’s eye out and collect objects along the way from which you will make a work of your own when you return to the museum. »

Magpie Artist Talks
Saturday 8th May, 2pm
Sunday 9th May, 2pm

Magpie Workshops
Charm, Tiding, Murder: a Magpie view of Taupo – Kristin D’Agnostino
Saturday 8th May 12pm – 2pm
Sunday 9th May 12pm – 2pm
Contact Taupo Museum
Ph: 07 376 0414

 

 Taupo Museum, 4 Story Place, Taupo (NZ)