EXPO ‘Tributaries: Susie Ganch’ – National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, Tennessee (USA) – 5 Dec. 2014 – 1er Mars 2015

Tributaries: Susie Ganch
December 5, 2014 — March 1, 2015

National Ornamental Metal Museum

Driven by the impulse to “create what I cannot see,” Susie Ganch strips familiar forms down to their underlying molecular structure, suspending precious stones and enameled copper in intricate webs of silver and steel. Her jewelry and sculpture has been featured in Metalsmith magazine and in numerous national and international exhibitions. She is currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Metals Program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.

 Susie Ganch , Falling in Love, detail. Image credit: David Hunter Hale.

 
 

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EXPO ‘SUSIE GANCH – TIED’ – Visual Arts Center, Richmond (VA – USA) – 4 Avril-7 Juin 2014

April 4 – June 7, 2014 April 6, 2014
SUSIE GANCH – TIED
Visual Arts Center of Richmond

 Susie Ganch  Drag, digital print

Susie Ganch – Drag (with detail)

Susie Ganch - Drag, detail - photo by Terry Brown

This comprehensive exhibition ties together the multifaceted career and work of Susie Ganch, Associate Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Director of Radical Jewelry Makeover. An accomplished jeweler and sculptor, Ganch has staked a unique career with trifold contributions to the field of Craft. As a university educator, she trains the next generation of jewelers and metalsmiths; as a practicing artist, she pushes the boundaries of jewelry and sculpture through material, design, and function; as a director of the Radical Jewelry Makeover project, she creates community events that encourage our consideration of the social and environmental impacts of mining and jewelry production through the creation of innovative jewelry made from recycled sources.Susie Ganch: TIED includes two galleries of Ganch’s independent work and one gallery devoted to her collaborative project, Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM).  This RJM installation includes work by 22 well-known jewelers from across the United States who participated in previous RJM events as well as jewelry made by regional RJM artists and local VCU students.As an outreach program of the nonprofit Ethical Metalsmiths, Radical Jewelry Makeover (RJM) is an innovative community-mining project that raises awareness of the connection between mining, metalsmithing, activism, collaboration and art. The project is both performance and event, linking recycling, reuse and collaborative work sessions with the creation of unique, innovative, handmade jewelry. To learn more about RJM and the artists involved in this exhibition, visit: radicaljewelrymakeover.org and susieganch.com.

Susie Ganch -  Falling-in-Love

 

 

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EXPO ‘Glancing Back, Looking Forward’ – Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA (USA) – 26 Avril-28 Mai 2013

SUSIE GANCH: « Glancing Back, Looking Forward »   

« In a culture that values youth as the highest form of beauty in an industry (jewelry) motivated by beautification, these pieces reflect back the changes I see in my mirror every morning ».    -

 

Artist Susie Ganch is currently Associate Professor and Head of the Metals Program at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond Virginia. She is also Director of Radical Jewelry Makeover, an international traveling community jewelry mining and recycling project that was recently hosted by the Wheelwright Museum (in Santa Fe, NM), Queensland College of Art Griffith University and Artisan Gallery (in Brisbane, Australia).  Solo exhibitions include Velvet da Vinci, University of Wyoming-Laramie, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA. Group Exhibitions include: Unexpected Pleasures (Design Museum, London, England, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia), Heat Exchange (Shemer Art Center and Museum, Phoenix, AZ, and Kunstmuseen der Stadt Erfurt, Galerie Waidspeicher im Kulturhof Krönbacken, Erfurt, Germany), Surface and Substance (Contemporary Applied Arts and Electrum Gallery, London, England and Ruthin Craft Centre, Wales), Evolution and Imagination (Cameron Museum, NC). Collections include the Asheville Art Museum. Susie is a recent recipient of the Theresa Pollack Fine Art Award, a VA Commission for the Arts Grant, and multiple VCU Faculty Research Grants.  Publications include: Metalsmith Magazine (2008, volume 28, no. 3, cover article), The Compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellry Makers, and Bijoux. Illustration et Design. 

« …I recently began using pre enameled sheet steel, forming it, soldering it, and creating simple forms that reveal the life cycle of the resulting piece. They are intentionally raw, their surfaces containing hundreds, thousands of little cracks.  Solder is left on the surface, flux will come out over time, and because the steel is distressed (by forming), it will continue to shed bits of enamel.  They will age and evolve, gaining rust losing enamel while the diamonds and rubies on the surfaces will remain the same. I am considering my own evolution and what it means to transition into the next period of my life.  In a culture that values youth as the highest form of beauty in an industry (jewelry) motivated by beautification, these pieces reflect back the changes I see in my mirror every morning.  This jewelry will eventually disintegrate leaving some lonely diamonds and rubies behind. (In my imagination, they are the true loser in the story). Optimistically, I want this work to “die” making room for what will come next.  Part of my responsibility as an artist is to think of future generations and what they might need in order to make room for what jewelers sometime down the road will want to make… »

 

 

 

 

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EXPO ‘FERROUS’ – Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco (US) – 1er Mars-14 Avril 2013

FERROUS | Velvet da Vinci Contemporary Art Jewelry and Sculpture Gallery | San Francisco -

March 1 – April 14, 2013

(David Choi bracelet)

Jewelry in a New Iron Age by 60 International Artists

Velvet da Vinci San Francisco exhibition
March 1 – April 14, 2013
Artists’ reception Friday, March 1, 2013 from 6 to 8 p.m.

FERROUS, an exhibition of jewelry using iron, steel, and steel alloys. Although the use of iron dates back more than two thousand years, this humble material is more commonly used for agriculture and industrial purposes than adornment. A significant exception is the Berlin Iron Jewelry of the early 19th century. The Prussian Royal family funded the uprising against Napoleon by encouraging wealthy citizens to exchange their precious gold and silver for intricately fabricated iron jewelry.Intricacy is just one aspect the 60 artists of FERROUS explore with this versatile material. Known for its strength and lightness, the steel and iron jewelry of FERROUS is both rusty and shiny, sheet and wire, bejeweled and modest. The exhibition will take place simultaneously at Velvet da Vinci Gallery in San Francisco and as a virtual exhibition at crafthaus online. In May FERROUS will travel to 18Karat Gallery in Toronto, Canada as part of The Society of North American Goldsmith’s annual conference.

 

 

Participating artists:
Nanz Aalund, USA –  Anne Achenbach, Germany –  Dauvit Alexander, Scotland –  Talya Baharal, USA –  Michael Berger, Germany –  Lisa Bjorke, Sweden –  Aaron Bray, USA –  Elizabeth Callinicos, UK –  Melissa Cameron, USA/Australia –  David Choi, USA –  Kat Cole, USA –  Dialogue Collective, UK –  Andy Cooperman, USA –  Donna D’Aquino, USA –  Jaclyn Davidson, USA –  Ann Catrin Evans, Wales –  Maureen Faye-Chauhan, Australia –  Fekete Réka, NL –  Mirla Fernandes, Brazil –  Peg Fetter, USA –  Rebekah Frank, USA –  Motoko Furuhashi, USA –  Susie Ganch, USA –  Elliot Gaskin, USA –  Janna Gregonis, USA –  Dana Hakim, Israel –  Masako Hamaguchi, UK –  Tom Hill, USA/UK –  Heejin Hwang, USA –  Rob Jackson, USA –  Mary Frisbee Johnson, USA –  Lisa Juen Sinnott, USA –  Satomi Kawai, USA –  Maya Kini, USA –  Amy Klainer, USA –  Jenny Laidlaw, UK –  Lorena Lazard, Mexico –  Roxy Lentz, USA –  Timothy Information Limited, UK –  Kasja Lindberg, Sweden –  Tara Locklear, USA –  Sarah Loertscher, USA –  Drew Markou, UK –  Judy McCaig, Spain/Scotland –  Lindy McSwan, Australia –  Chris Nelson, USA –  Iker Ortiz, Mexico –  Claudio Pino, Canada –  Jo Pond, UK –  Suzanne Pugh, USA –  Meghan Patrice Riley, USA –  Mackenzie Sala, USA –  Natasha Seedorf, USA –  Sondra Sherman, USA –  Marjorie Simon, USA –  Melissa Stiles, USA –  Barbara Stutman, Canada –  Tore Svensson, Sweden –  Sarah West, USA –  Katie Wright, UK

Donna D’Aquino : Red/Black Necklace

 Helen Shirk: Neckpiece

Alexander Dauvit : Three Post-Apocalyptic Cocktail Rings

David Choi Brooch

Maureen Faye-Chauhan: Stainless steel Octahedral brooch

Sarah West – Coney Island/RCA Brooch

Susie Ganch : Pendant

Mirla Fernandes Eu sou a medida II/Fe (I am the measure/Fe) Necklace

Drew Markou Rust and Space Brooch #1

Tara Locklear – Faux Real KJ Lane Replica Earrings

Marjorie Simon First Thoughts on Miami Foliage Neckpiece

Sondra Sherman Study Valeriana Brooch

Barbara Stutman Boutonniere #11

Jennifer Laidlaw No use in crying over spilt milk Necklace (detail)

Lindy McSwan Day 7 NYC v2.1 and v1.2 Brooches

Dana Hakim My Four Guardian Angels Brooch

Meghan Patrice Riley Interstitial II Necklace

Kat Cole 405 Summit Catalog of Belongings Neckpiece

Kat Cole The Land Below – Winter Neckpiece

Sarah Loertscher Structure Neckpiece #13

Amy Klainer Safety Chain Necklace

Suzanne Pugh Brooch

Roxy Lentz Neckpiece

 Lisa Bjorke Frigg Brooch

Reka Fekete Juggling Brooch

 Lisa Juen I Make You Look Successful Brooch/Neckpiece

 Claudio Pino INOX Reverie Ring

Michael Berger Kinetic Ring

Motoko Furuhashi – Sentiment Brooch

Timothy Information Limited -  Gone Brooch

EXPO ‘UNEXPECTED PLEASURES’ – NGV International, Melbourne (AU) – 20 Avril-26 Aout 2012

UNEXPECTED PLEASURES

The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery

A Design Museum, London touring exhibition
at NGV (National Gallery of Victoria)

Unexpected Pleasures looks at what we mean by jewellery from a number of different perspectives.  Taking as its starting point the radical experiments of the Contemporary Jewellery Movement that challenged a conventional understanding of the language of personal adornment, and looking instead at the essential meanings of jewellery, the exhibition brings together important work from around the world, and looks at it from the point of view of the wearer as well as the maker. Contemporary  Jewellery in this sense is at the intersection of art and design.

Curated by Dr. Susan Cohn for the Design Museum, London with exhibition design by Ab Rogers Design and graphics by Barnbrook.

« UNEXPECTED Pleasures, an exhibition of the world’s ugliest, loveliest, most intriguing contemporary jewellery, opened at the National Gallery of Victoria International yesterday.
 »Everything here is designed to be worn, » said guest curator and jewellery designer Susan Cohn.
Visitors took that as a challenge, moving through 180 dimly lit curiosities by the world’s most radical designers, trying to imagine what it would be like to wear a necklace of glass and ceramic dildos. Or a tubular  »veil » collar like a pearly plastic version of Ned Kelly’s helmet. Or a cluster of rusted bolts and nails on a silver  »Screw Ring ».
 »After procreation and survival, our next instinct as humans is adornment, » Cohn said when asked,  »Why? »
 »Adornment is about attracting a mate, which in turn, is about procreation and survival. »
Some humans, however, obviously require more complex, intellectual adornments than others.  »Yes, some wearers will want something that speaks that way for them, » Cohn said. Among the exhibits was a vast choice of such expression, from the minimalist exquisitry of a grey sunray-pleated yoke, to a clump of small pale  »tumours », photographed bursting through a model’s frock. The latter was in a category of radical ideas.
NGV director Gerard Vaughan said the exhibition offered  »a fresh view of the many meanings associated with jewellery ».
The visiting director of London’s Design Museum, Deyan Sudjic, said it was the result of a  »long, drawn-out, cerebral process », and that is precisely how it felt.
Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery, is a Design Museum, London, exhibition funded by the Joan and Peter Clemenger Trust.
It is free and runs until August 26, when it will travel to London. (Daily Life.com.au)

Art and design come together through its exploration of the radical experiments of contemporary jewelers who have pushed the boundaries. Navigate your way through the labyrinth of themes; Worn Out (celebrating the experience of wearing jewellery), Linking Links (looks at the way in which narratives are expressed through sub-themes and creative systems) and A Fine Line (offers insight into the origins of contemporary jewellery today) in an exhibition that is not to be missed.

Camilla Prasch – MEGA 2009 – red dyed snap fasteners, nylon thread, silicone discs – Photo: Dorte Krogh

Sally Marsland (AU) – Flat colour, brooches (2002) – epoxy resin mixed with powdered pigment - Photo: Jeremy Dillon

Doug Bucci, USA, Trans-Hematopoietic neckpiece (2010).

Susie Ganch, USA, Yellow dust, brooch (2010)

David Bielander, Scampi, armband/bracelet, 2007

Karl Fritsch Screw ring 2010 silver, nails, screws

 

Karl Fritsch, New Zealand, Steinhaufen, ring 2004

Hyewon Kim -  Torn 1 (2011) – resin, twigs Photo: Myoungwook Huh

Tiffany Parbs – Extension (2008) – hand woven hair, digital print – photo Terence Bogue

Caroline Broadhead, England, Veil, necklace (1983).

Susanne Klemm, « Frozen » necklace, plastic

Blanche TILDEN – Speed, neckpiece  2000  borosilicate glass, titanium, anodised aluminium

Paul Derrez  Pleated Collar  1982  Plastic, steel 

Felieke van der Leest – necklace

Rose necklace by Gijs Bakker: Colour photograph in laminated plastic (1983) 

Dorothea Prühl Habicht (Hawk), 2006 necklace, elm wood – H 40 cm

Noon Passama, Brooch, 2010

 

First on show at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 20 April – 26 August 2012, this exhibition will also tour to the Design Museum in London, 5 Dec 2012 – 3 Mar 2013. Melbourne based designer and maker Dr. Susan Cohn (interview with The Age) has curated this exhibition for the Design Museum and is also co-author of the substantial catalogue documenting this event as well contributing to the discussion about contemporary design and making.

 

 

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THANKS to  Marta Miguel Martínez-Soria page/selection on Pinterest, about blue jewellery !!!! it was the departure for this ….. blue OCEAN !! or, to be more in the « intellectual » actuality, « 99 shades of … BLUE » !!

 

Giorgio Vigna – gorgoglio – vetro

Arthur Hash  Blue Wave (cast polyurethane)

Donald FRIEDLICH  (gal. Loupe) – brooch ‘Translucence’ series – glass, 18k & 14k gold, diamond
Gésine Hackenberg- Table Glass: Dutch/Finnish Still Life, Brooch

Gésine Hackenberg Double Glass Still life Brooch- Finnish table glass (vintage by Itala); cut and ground

Giampaolo Babetto – Brosche

Graziano Visintin – broche – or, argent, niellage – 2009 

  
Graziano Visintin – Brooch, 2006 – 18k gold, enamel, gold leaf  (The David Collection)

Lisa JUEN – ‘don’t dream it wear it’ – blue brooch or necklace- Lasercut Stainless Steel, CZ, LED, LED Screen, Plastic, Cable, Light Switch, Battery

Maria Rosa Franzin brooch

Pilar Garrigosa brooch

Julia deVille (AU) – ‘Mechanical Wing’ brooch, Kingfisher Wing, silver

Luis Acosta – paper bracelet

Märta Mattsson

Rallou Katsari - ‘whispering loud’ ring

Aline Berdichevsky – brooches “Reconstructio »

Benedikt Fischer – brooches

Christian Astuguevieille – Bracelet éponge bleue (La Piscine, Roubaix – don de l’artiste en 1995)

Stefano Poletti- Collier en éponge naturelle teintée et perle recouverte de feuille d’or monté sur fil d’or

Nel Linssen – blue bangle – paper

Ute Eitzenhöfer – brooch – Mixed media (labradorite)

Eleanor Bolton – blue(s) necklaces

Coco Dunmire  necklace

Tabea Reuleake – ring

Birgit Skolimowski (EE)

Estela Saez “Good by(e) nest.” serie  2008- ‘SEPIA’ – silver/wool/fabrics/paint

Carolina Gimeno- portable objects

Carolina Gimeno-‘Phacella Congesta’ from Portable Objects 2010 – brooch

Carolina Gimeno- ‘Zurciendo cuerpos sobre el mapa’ 2009 – Brooch – Copper, Vitreus Enamel, wood, silver , steel

Carolina Gimeno (Chili) – série “dibujando en el espacio”

Flora Vagi – curious wish – brooch

Susie Ganch – blue dust enamel brooch

Flora Vagi -azur reverse necklace – ebony, silk, cord enamel,18 ct gold – 2005

Stacey Bentley brooch – enamel

Blanche Tilden – “Compress” necklace - glass

Christophe Marguier – ‘esperance de vie de l’homme’ necklace- plastic, silver, steel

Gulnur OZDAGLAR – PET jewelry

Gulnur OZDAGLAR – PET jewelry necklace

Catherine Jacquet – collier cascade – plastiques

Barbara PAGANIN (IT) broche ‘fiore di luce’ – verre  (Galerie SLAVIK)

GIIA (IT) “blue wave” felt neckpiece

Camilla Teglio – « Mimesi n2″  Collana : legno, carta giapponese, argento, colore

 Lucia Massei - pendant ‘Comunque e sempre’ 18kt yellow gold, silver, iron, ruby, black spinels 2009

 Lucia Massei -  bague « la bella adormentata »

Mirla Fernandes- Herança necklace- latex,paint, porcelain – 2006

Peter  Hoogeboom – chainmail porcelain necklaces

Liana Pattihis  - Blue Circle Brooch 2007 – Silver, copper, enamel stainless steel – Inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s Painting ‘Blue Circle’

Liana Pattihis - Brooch: Blue Istos 02 2010 -silver Light Trace Chain, Copper, Enamel, St. Steel

Viktoria Münzker- Kollektion PARADISO

Mirjam Hiller - Catopsia – brooch – stainless steel powdercoating, titanium

Sari Liimatta « The Costume I », necklace, 2006 glass beads, fresh water pearls, metal, plastic toy

Mia Maljojoki - 2010 (Photo: Mirei Takeuchi)

Sara Borgegård  2009 necklace, wood, paint, iron, cotton

Sara Borgegård necklace

Yuri Bylkov - ring- metal, paper, acrylic – 2009

Alexis Kostuk – “high gear” brooch- copper, which I used a patina on to darken, pearls & gem beads, sterling silver ball chain, resin, and flocking.

Denise Julia Reytan

Denise Julia Reytan- “Snapshots”

Dora Haralambaki - ceramic ring

Edith Bellod - collier en porcelaine de limoges : “kaléidoscope”

Annamaria Zanella – brooch

Andi Gut - ring

Tanel Veenre – “Orden for the one who is arriving”

Helfried Kodré - brooch

Helfried Kodré - ring, silver, lapislazuli – ring, gold, silver, turquoise, bronze, 2007

Aldo Mondino, BIC – cristallo di rocca, lapislazzuli e tappo in oro smaltato blu, esemplare unico – 2008

Aldo Mondino, BIC necklace

Paweł Kaczyński

Paweł Kaczyński – Silver and Steel Water Bracelet

Hannah Fewtrell-Bolton - restriction 3 – conceptual textile

Jean-Pierre Dussaillant- Bague “Cactus”

Anya Kivarkis – copper, silver, enamel brooch

Emiko Oye – duchess2_ Necklace from My First Royal Jewels Jewellery Collection. Repurposed LEGO necklace inspired by Cartier’s diamond, emerald and platinum necklace, and Harry Winston’s pendant, 1960. emiko-o 2008.

Enrica Prazzoli – Ives Klein (Alchimia – 2011)

Enrica Prazzoli – (from Alchimia) blue Klein collection rings 

Floor Mommersteeg – Pebble-necklace, nylon

Floor Mommersteeg – broche

Hana Karim  Ceramic Jewelry

Helen Britton – brooch 

Hanna Liljenberg -  Quinault 3, halssmycke järn, oljefärg, lintråd, silver

Babette Egerland- ring “Ballonschmuck” 925 Ag rhodiniert

Farah Bandookwala (UK) – blue hair brooch

Mikiko Minewaki- ‘toy-camera’ necklace

Katie Schutte – Cluster necklace – crocheted, electroformed, and powdercoated found wire, cubic zirconia

Shannon Carney ring

Kath Inglis  “Blue Pollinator” Brooch

Akiko Ban- collar – 2010  (from Alchimia)

Jillian Moore -  brooch-pendant ‘Cucurbits’ 2008 Fiberglass, resin, copper, paint, felt

Joanna Gollberg - prong series blue brooch

Sayumi Yokouchi - ‘Layered’ Brooch in plastic, silk thread, and stainless steel.

Karin Kato – ‘QU4DRO’ Brooch in sand, resin, and silver

Silvia Walz – “Under water” brooch-  Series: Burbujas   – silver, copper, resine, enamel, glas – 2010

Silvia Walz La visionaria (Geometria Series) Brooch

Tobias Alm - Summer series 2009 Necklace. Cotton, wood, paint

Jessica Calderwood - ‘Portrait of an Eye’ Brooch/Pendant – Enamel on copper, sterling, stainless steel

Gésine Hackenberg  – ‘blue white ruins’ ring

Carola Bauer necklace – Silver, enamel

Jacqueline Ryan 18kt gold and vitreous enamel brooch

Jean-François PEREÑA -  bracelet -cuir, lapis-lazuli, nacre, plexiglas (bleu), argent

Patricia Lemaire – Aspara la Bleue 1- 1999 défilé Lapidus

Anne Goldfarb – OUT OF AFRICA – Collier Soie, Argent, Fil d’aluminium – Afedap 2011

Andrea Janosik- Blue Brooch - sIlver and suede - 2007

Sue GREGOR – cuff

Gijs Bakker- Bracelet « Porsche bracelet » stéréolithographie, polyuréthane -, 2000

David Bielander – Enzian Brooch – titanium

Sam Tho Duong

Hanneke Paumen (NL) – Tulle blauw Collar (detail)- felt

Kate Bauman  - barnacle no.9 (ring) – enamel, copper, sterling silver

Anthony Tammaro – « neck object » – Gypsum/Epoxy/Silicone

Farah Bandookwala (UK) http://www.farahb.com- Parasite series: magnetic brooches – Rapid prototyped nylon, stainless steel, dye, rare earth magnets. Collection of brooches with interchangable magnetic backs

Melissa TOLAR  - Enamel, hand-cast gems, and pearl jewelry

Mirla Fernandes

Mirla Fernandes ring

Ralph Bakker “the Fly” – earrings

Yoko Shimizu – necklace – resin, pigment, silver

Yoko Shimizu  (from Alchimia school), necklace from the « transformation » series – 2010

Celio Braga, Brazil (Think Twice: New Latin American Jewellery exhibition)

Marta Mattsson- The Human Touch – Cricket brooch

Susanne Elstner, brosche

Farrah Al-Dujaili – Necklace – Copper, enamel paint, watercolour pencil, thread – 2010

Carolina Gimeno (Chile) resinas – bracelet

Shannon Carney – medium collar resin necklace

Helena Lehtinen- Gardens Collection, Blue brooch, 2011 Wood, thread, beads

MARIJKE DE GOEY – 1999 – Pièce unique. BAGUE « Curly » en or or et titane à patine bleue

Mirjam Hiller  brooch

Gemma Draper, Barcelona- brooch

Nora Fok  ring

Paolo Scura - ring 

EXPO ‘Susie Ganch’, Velvet da Vinci Gallery, San Francisco (US) – 11 aout-17 Sept. 2010

 » Fascinated by the molecular makeup of objects, Susie Ganch‘s work is made up of multiple interconnected units. Ganch uses traditional materials of silver, steel, and copper, and applies color to her work with sugar-fired enamel. Each interdependent element, or « molecule, » vibrates with movement and « offers us the opportunity see and feel what we are made of. »
Susie Ganch attended California College of the Arts in Oakland, California, and lived in California until 2004, when she began teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. A 2007 recipient of the Virginia Commonwealth University Faculty Research Grant, her work has been featured in Metalsmith, the Style Weekly Fashion Quarterly, and San Francisco Downtown Magazine. Susie Ganch’s work is included in the collections of the Asheville Art Museum in Asheville, North Carolina, and John Crutchfield and Artemis Gallery in Richmond, Virginia . »

Susie Ganch – bracelet

Susie Ganch – bracelet (and detail)

Susie Ganch – bracelet

Susie Ganch – brooch

Susie Ganch – bracelet

Susie Ganch – brooch

Susie Ganch – Red Ring -  steel, enamel

 

« I am driven by the idea that the web of life is an inter-connected system. From molecules to atoms everything is structurally made of the same « stuff ». I construct forms that are comprised of multiple interdependent parts. In the piece Rest, the suspension system will collapse when out of balance and when each steel cable is not properly engaged. The « molecules », rings, and collected bits offer us the opportunity see and feel what we are made of. A bracelet of « molecules » sliding over the hand is a glimpse into what that might actually feel like, and a necklace of rubies extending off the neck suggests the view an electron has as it travels through the air and into a body. « (Susie Ganch)

 

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Mon truc en PLUMES …..

« Mon truc en plumes
Plumes de zoiseaux
De z’animaux
Mon truc en plumes ….
Ça fait rêver….. »
(Zizi Jeanmaire)

bijoux en plumes

Arline Fisch‘Twill’ necklace, 1970 – Woven sterling, feathers

Arline Fisch ‘Feathers’  bracelet, 1974 Sterling, leather, feathers.

Susie Ganch – feathers earrings

Antria Prasinou (GR) – ‘Magic Wheel’ – Brooch – Silver, feathers 2009

c’est drôle, la plume n’a pas l’air d’avoir bonne presse dans le monde du bijou moderne. Elle bat de l’aile, si je puis me permettre ….. Si elle apparait, c’est discrètement (boucles d’oreilles, éventuellement bagues), ou alors pour évoquer de suite un coté « cul-cul », monde de filles, houpette, boa et tra-la-la ….

En 2005, le directeur artistique de chez Lemarié, le célèbre (et unique maintenant) plumassier de la place de Paris, a créé une ligne de bijoux utilisant les plumes … il était bien placé pour savoir de quoi il en retournait ! plumes de coq taillées et acérées donnaient des bagues à la présence légère mais à forte personnalité … hélas, plus rien de neuf à l’horizon depuis ….

La plume, sa légéreté, son mouvement, sont évoqués (collier de Kayo Saito,broche d’Isabell Schaupp, bracelet de Joanne Cox, collier de Louise Nippierd ou de Simone Svoboda, jusqu’au collier de virginie BOIS qui rappelle les parures en plumes des Indiens d’Amérique du sud …), mais elle n’est pas franchement utilisée …. en tout cas, je ne la vois pas souvent ! C’est vrai aussi que ça a été tellement galvaudé ! moi, dès que je vois une plume de paon qui pendouille, je m’enfuis en courant !
« C’est au printemps dernier que la Maison Lemarié, réputée pour son savoir-faire de plumassier auprès des grands noms de la mode et de la couture, a lancé sa première ligne de bijoux. Pour sa deuxième saison, la marque, sous l’impulsion de son designer Eric-Charles Donatien, injecte une nouvelle dose de détails décalés et booste son image « bon chic ». Des couleurs qui claquent (fuchsia, rouge carmin, bleu pétrole), des plumes de paon taillées comme des écailles, des plumes de coq affûtées comme des lames, des effets plumeau, des éclairs argentés… Plus que du caractère, ces bijoux ont un look, une «gueule». » (nov 2006, Madame Figaro)

Lemarié par Eric-Charles Donatien- Broche Étoile du Sud en plumes, argent et cristaux 
Lemarié par Eric-Charles Donatien - Bague ‘Oursin’, plume d’oie, argent, strass (merveille !)

« Des plumes aux noms « exotiques », mais dont l’origine est parfois plus prosaïque. Comme le «marabout» qui se trouve être en fait du duvet de dinde… parce que «duvet de dinde, ça évoque plutôt la couette ou l’oreiller, ce n’est pas très ‘glamour’», confie Eric-Charles Donatien. Mais il y a aussi une autre explication : c’est que le commerce la plume – comme celui des peaux et fourrures – est régi par la Convention de Washington, qui pour résumer, le restreint aux oiseaux dont on mange la chair, c’est-à-dire principalement pour, la maison Lemarié, coqs, oies, faisans et autruches. Les plumes d’autruche proviennent d’Afrique du Sud et de pays d’Amérique du sud, comme celles de nandous, beaucoup de plumes viennent également d’Asie. Des provenances qui nécessitent une grande vigilance. «On jongle  avec ce qu’on trouve sur le marché, et le stock de la maison», conclut Eric Charles-Donatien. …. chez Lemarié, on s’efforce de «casser certaines idées reçues sur la plume», notamment celle qui l’associe systématiquement au spectacle sexy. Avec la ligne de bijoux, qu’il a créée depuis 2005, Eric Charles-Donatien, a voulu que par le biais «d’ un travail graphique et technique inattendu (…) la plume  devienne objet de design».  Une collection  réalisée avec l’orfèvre Goossens, qui fait partie, avec Lemarié, des sept ateliers d’art rachetés à partir du milieu des années 1990 par Chanel : le parurier Desrues, le chapelier Michel, le brodeur Lesage, le bottier Massaro et l’atelier de création de fleurs artificielles Guillet. Une façon de faire vivre ces métiers devenus rares et de moins en moins enseignés. Chaque atelier continue à travailler pour d’autres maisons de couture et a été incité à développer des activités complémentaires, comme l’école de broderie de Lesage ou les collections de bijoux de Lemarié. » (Danielle Birck-Article publié le 25/02/2008)

Fifi la Ferraille- été 2008- collier en plumes de coq, pvc- pièce unique
Betony Vernon,  bague plumes

Mikala Mortensen (DK)- necklace- silver, feathers

Christine Bossler – ‘Distance’ – silver, copper, brass, music wire, silicone, feathers – 2001

Annie Mesplet-‘Colliers d’Ailleurs’- été 2008- lien cuir Touareg, plumes
Eric Halley- b.o. plume- 1997

Eric Charles-Donatien pour Lemarié – bague ‘Spirale’
Louise Barthélemy (Groupe Arcanes) – sillon de plumes, objet de main – argent, plumes 2003

deux superbes créations très modernes, sans le coté « ethnique » ou « frou-frou »

Jill Baker Gower – ‘glamour gem’ locket brooch- sterling, feather boa, mirror & plastic gem
Ligia DIAS  – bracelet plumes, cuir & chaine
‘mikeandmaryjewelry‘  ring_a_day  challenge

Cécile Boccara (FR)- collier plumes
Pascale Frey (FR) b.o. ‘éventails’ plumes de paon

Patricia Lemaire -  bague ‘Lumière 1′ – 1999 défilé Hte Couture C. Rouxel 

Patricia Lemaire- « Volutes » manchette -Parure de bras- cuivre émaillé, maillechort patiné, plumes d’autruches teintées et frisées  

Patricia Lemaire – ‘L’AIR’ – bague  maillechort, plumes, inox

Dominique Thomas-Vansteenberghe -(BE) parure en argent, caoutchouc et plume de faisan

la plume évoquée par d’autres matériaux :

Kayo Saito – necklace & detail
Noriko Yamaguchi – paper brooch

Isabell Schaupp monatsbrosche sept09
Joanne Cox - Jewellery on the body

Louise Nippierd - fallen fowl – 1998
Radek Szwed - bracelet

Simone Svoboda – textile (feutre) plastique
Virginie BOIS collier taffetas (textile)

 

ET ……. à ALLER VOIR ABSOLUMENT ! sur le blog de Patricia Lemaire, une publication de ses bijoux en plume !

Enregistrer

ENAMEL Jewelry – from the « Enamel show » at Velvet da Vinci Gallery, 2009

Celebrating 500 Enameled Objects by Lark Books
Celebrating the publication of 500 Enameled Objects by Lark Books, and in conjunction with The Enamelist Society Conference 2009, Surfacing, Velvet da Vinci Gallery will be exhibiting pieces featured in the book.
The artists featured in « The Enamel Show » at Velvet da Vinci have produced some of the most spectacular pieces featured in the 2009 Lark Book 500 Enameled Objects, juried by Sarah Perkins.
The exhibition includes both wearable jewelry and small sculptural objects. Sixty-five international artists are featured in the exhibition.

Participating artists:
Sally Aplin • Sofia Björkman • Amanda Bristow • Harlan Butt • Jessica Calderwood • Helen Carnac • Tania Carson • Patricia Case • Yi Chen • Marianne Contreras • Lisa Crowder • Venetia Dale • Dubbelop (Pauline Barendse & Jan Matthesius) • Robert Ebendorf • Beate Eismann • Helen Elliott • Susie Ganch • Angela Gerhard • Gretchen Goss • Charity L. Hall• Joseph Handy • Jan Harrell • Mark Hartung • Sha Sha Higby • Melissa Huff • John Iversen • Jessica Kahle • Elizabeth Kaprow • Susan Kingsley • Soyeon Kim • Maya Kini • Shana Kroiz • Jutta Klingebiel • Deborah Lozier • Claudia Milic • Anna Moll • Viktoria Munzker-Ferus • Seth Papac • Joan Parcher • Miel-Margarita Paredes • Sarah Perkins • Joseph Pillari • Natalya Pinchuk • John Rais • Michele Raney • Katherine Redford • René Roberts • Jessica Schlachter • Ann Schmalwaßer • June Schwarcz • Sean Scully • Giovanni Sicuro • Marjorie Simon • Judy Stone • Tura Sugden • Amelia Toelke • Stephanie Tomczak • Fabrizio Tridenti • Julia Turner • Elizabeth Turrell • Jessica Turrell • Mariah Tuttle • Niki Ulehla • Jonathan Wahl

Tura Sugden « Pollination Ring »  –   Fabrizio Tridenti – brooch

Stephanie Tomczak « Angelito, a Mourning Portrait » Brooch  — Susie Ganch brooch

Elizabeth Kaprow  – « Red Cross » Brooch –  brooch

 Lisa Crowder « Bunnies Light and Dark » Brooches
Natalya Pinchuk « Growth Series, Brooch

Giovanni Sicuro « M1″ Bracelet –Viktoria Munzker-Ferus « Enamel as Pigment 03″ Brooch

Venetia Dale « Blooms on Gold » Necklace — Shana Kroiz Necklace « White Wash »

 

BOOK :

500 Enameled Objects by Lark Books

 

 

La Vie en Rose ! « girly tour »

« Quand il me prend dans ses bras
Il me parle tout bas
Je vois la vie en rose.. » (Edith Piaf)

Arthur HASH voit (aussi) la vie en rose !!! …. et c’est KITSCH !!!

Arthur Hash  bracelet  –  ping pong pin  –  Cake Mixer brooch

 

Maiiiiis ……. il n’est pas le seul !!! allez, c’est parti pour un « girly tour » !!

Mette Saabye (DK) – Ring ‘Crystalring’ – silver, salt crystal, paper
Mette Saabye (DK) – Brooch ‘Bumblebee harasses Pink Flower’ – gold, laquer, paper, silver (Gal. Louise Smit)

Dana Seachuga (IL) – ‘Hollow cries’ brooch – deer horn, pearls, nail polish, silver …
Mia Maljojoki (DE) – necklace

Miette (FR)- « envie » necklace, pvc
Mikiko Minewaki (JP)- necklace ‘plachain’ – curlers – (schmuck 2010)
Kate Kusack (US) zipper necklace

Alexia Cohen (US) bracelet
Heather Skowood - love-hate bracelet, silver & pom poms (photo Jonathan Keenan, UK)

Amy Weiks (US) – lick series
Karen Monny (FR) – collerettes soie 2000-01

Julie Bouldoires – b.o. spirales -fleurs – bijou d’un jour avec fleurs fraîches (ou pas) (Gal. Caractere)
Emiko OYE (US) – eclipse pink  Limited Edition bracelet – LEGO, sterling silver, rubber cord

Uli Rapp (NL) – proudly FAKE
Fifi  la Ferraille (FR) – Collier – Pièce unique

Cheryl Eve Acosta (US) – Double Bracelet – expo ‘fibers expanded’ – sterling- nylon bracelet
Helen Britton (AU) – ‘non omne est aurum quod splendet’ (all that glitters is not gold)

Denise Julia Reytan (DE)- neckpiece
Masako ONODERA (US) – Eruption Necklace

 

‘mikeandmaryjewelry‘ ‘ring_a_day » challenge
Brigit Daamen (NL) felt ring
Yoko Izawa  (UK)- veiled ring

Iris Eichenberg (NL)- ‘traenenmeer’ brooch – ‘pink years later’ – copper plated silver, beads, nylon
Terhi Tolvanen (NL)- Hyacinthe Cristalline – broche, 2008 – grape wood- silk, silver, amethyst (long 18cm)

Min-Jii CHO - necklace
Silvina Romero (Arg.) – textile necklace

 

Katerina Handlova (CS) – glass-rocaille, lamp-worked beads ‘coral’ necklace
Christine Bossler (US) ‘Distance’ necklace

 

Eric-Charles Donatien pour Lemarié (FR) – Broche Étoile du Sud-plumes, argent,cristaux
Lisa Juen – Brooch ‘Pink Tradition’ 2009- Steel, nail varnish, rost, glass, silk floss

Mi-Mi Moscow (RU)- necklace « tranquility »
Felicity PETERS (AU) – ‘inspired by the gherkin’, earplugs and silver thread

 

Akiko Kurihara (JP) ring
Susanne KLEMM (CH) – ring ‘sleeping beauty’- ‘orchid’  -silver,cold enamel

 

Johanna Dahm (CH) perspex brooch
Shannon Carney – resin brooch

 

Sarah Keay (UK) pink bangle detail – Silver, monofilament, enamel, plastic.
Katharina Moch (DE) bracelet- plastic (partly glow in the dark) copper, enamel, citrin...

 

Philip SAJET- ‘Precious and stone’ 2008 – gold, rose quartz
Ted NOTEN-’ Fashionista Purple Haze’ necklace- glass, crystal, nylon

Susie Ganch  brooch (SOFA 2009)
Seth Papac  (US) necklace

Chloé Durand - Monocle : laiton doré + gravure laser « ¥€$ » + plexiglass teinté en rose taille diamant
« Monocle qui met en avant la dérision de notre comportement vis à vis de l’argent ; l’obsession que la quête de la richesse engendre en nous, et l’illusion de bonheur qu’elle produit. Avec, je vois la vie en rose… »

 

 

et pour finir en beauté …. des fesses roses … de bonheur !

Brigit Daamen (NL) was recently featured in the exhibition “Fashioning Felt”, at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Brigit felts plastic costume jewelry with merino wool and transforms them into precious edgy neck pieces.