During SCHMUCK 2016 : EXPO ‘NEW WORK from a NEW WORLD’ – Galerie Jordanow, Munich (DE) – 25-28 Fevr. 2016

NEW WORK from a NEW WORLD

Galerie Biró in cooperation with Jewelers’Werk USA
At  Galerie Jordanow, Zieblandstr. 19, 80799 München
Öffnungszeiten: 25.-28.02. 2016. Täglich von 11 bis 19 Uhr

Sélection d’artistes américains :

Thea Clark — Rebekah Frank + Iris Eichenberg — Missy Graff — Lisa Gralnick — Mielle Harvey — Timothy Veske-McMahon — Darcy Miro — Edgar Mosa — Seth Papac — Carolanne Patterson — Sharon Portelance — Lauren Tickle-Tietje — Aric Verrastro — Jonathan Wahl –  Sayumi Yokouchi

Thea Clark 2016 - Ice - brooch, 2016, pigmented plaster, resin, anthracite, wood, metals.

 Rebekah Frank – Max height 3 composite – rectangle series

Missy Graff  Lengthen 2013 – Fascia series

Lisa Gralnick :   Gold Zoloft necklace – The Gold Standard : Gold Standard Part I: Commodification & Sensible Economy - works related to value of object

Mielle Harvey – golden bird finger ring 2011

Timothy Veske-McMahon – Glyph/Borne

Darcy Miro – Oxidised silver cuff bracelet, six black diamonds 

Earropes by Edgar Mosa | photo by @josephmcs | modeled by @sarah_mccall

Seth Papac  Brooch, 2015 -Brass, powder coated brass frame, velour

Sharon Portelance- Memory Breathes – « Wreath for Liam and Maeve » bracelet - sterling silver, 22ktgold

Lauren Tickle  « Is it Legal? »   brooch 2015

Aric Verrastro  - Timekeepers serie -  Here to There  Steel, driftwood, sterling silver, acrylic paint, thread  105x9x2cm  Necklace  2015:

 Jonathan Wahl - « Faceted » / charcoal

Sayumi Yokouchi, Untitled, 2015, brooch, thermoplastic, silver, white gold, 45 x 55 x 10 mm, photo: artist

 

 

Galerie Jordanow, Zieblandstr. 19, 80799 München

Galerie Biró
Zieblandstrasse 19
80799 München
Tel: + 49 (0) 89 27 30 686
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Opening ours: Thursday to Friday 11am to 16pm, Saturday 11am to 2pm
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During SCHMUCK 2016 : EXPO ‘The BOX’ – Galerie Biró Junior, Munich (DE) – 25-28 Fevr. 2016

Galerie Biró Junior in cooperation with Bella Neyman & Ruta Reifen from Platforma, New York
THE BOX
#39 – curator: Platforma, Bella Neyman & Ruta Reifen, New York

 Artists:  Sofia Björkman, SW — Réka Lörincz, HU — Bruce Metcalf, USA –  Gisbert Stach, DE — Demitra Thomloudis, USA – Timothy Veske-McMahon, USA
The curators of  The Box posed a unique challenge to a select group of artists. Take 5 readymade materials purchased at the dollar store & give value to something invaluable by creating 3 wearable pieces of jewelry. This challenge feeds into the contemporary jewelry artists’ interest in working with non-precious & alternative materials.
The group includes three American and three European artists. They are Bruce Metcalf, Demi Thomloudis, Timothy Veske-McMahon, Sofia Björkman, Réka Lörinz and Gisbert Stach.
Each artist received a box containing five standard size white envelopes, a small white towel, three white erasers, three CDs, and a can of Diet Coke. The materials were chosen because they are all white and echo a metaphorical blank page. These items can also be manipulated in multiple ways.

 Réka Lörincz necklace for THE BOX

pendant by Sofia Björkman – part of THE BOX exhibition during SCHMUCK 2016

brooch by Sofia Björkman – part of THE BOX exhibition

Demitra Ryan-Thomloudis – Brooch: Hollow Formed Cement, resin, cloth, diet coke can, CD, paint, Nickel silver – for the BOX exhibition

Bruce Metcalf -  Second brooch for « The Box. » Made from a Diet Coke can, envelopes, plexiglass, moonstone, glass cabochon, and silver. Height 4 1/2″ »

 

Galerie Biró Junior
Freiraum , Pestalozzistraße 8,
80469 München
Thu-Sat 11:00 – 18:00, Sun 12:00-15:00
www.galerie-biro.de

 

 

 

 

During SCHMUCK 2016 : AJF 2016 awards – 24 Fevr.-1er Mars 2016

AJF ANNOUNCES FINALISTS FOR 2016 ARTIST AWARD

Five Finalists Shortlisted for International Prize

Mill Valley, California, USA–Art Jewelry Forum (AJF) is pleased to announce the five finalists for its 2016 Artist Award. The finalists will exhibit their work with Sofia Björkman, from Platina, during the international art jewelry fair Schmuck, in Munich, Germany, from February 24 through March 1, 2016. 

The Five finalists for AJF’s 2016 Artist Award are:

Lynn Batchelder –  Carina Shoshtary — Seth Papac — Aric Verrastro — and Timothy Veske-McMahon.
Finalists were chosen from the largest group of Artist Award applicants to date–151 artists representing 35 countries–and judged on originality, depth of concept, continuity of design, and quality of craftsmanship. This year’s jurors were Philip Clarke of New Zealand, inaugural director of Objectspace; 2014 Artist Award winner Seulgi Kwon, from South Korea; and AJF board member and collector Susan Kempin, who is from the United States.
  The unrestricted cash prize of $7500, generously funded by Susan Beech and Karen and Michael Rotenberg, will be awarded to one of the five finalists. AJF would like to thank Sofia Björkman and PLATINA for providing a showcase for the winner and finalist during Schmuck and donating the gallery’s profits to AJF. The winner will be announced in February 2016.

Lynn Batchelder  Tunnel, 2015, brooch, steel, silver, 127 x 51 x 38 mm, photo: artist
MFA, Metal, State University of New York at New Paltz, New York, USA, 2013
« My studio practice relies on a drawing process where forms and ideas develop intuitively through the initial exploration of a line on paper. In these works industrial steel becomes transparent and delicate as cuts made with the jeweler’s saw reflect the quality of a line drawn by hand … I am constantly trying to capture small moments of contrast where control and imperfection collide. »

Lynn Batchelder, Tunnel (on the body), 2015, brooch

Carina Shoshtary- Confused Branches, 2015, necklace, 9 x 33 x 25 cm, photo: artist
MA, Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Germany, 2012
  »My work starts with an intuitive experimental play with found materials, which usually come from my immediate surroundings. In the process of experimenting, the materials are being thoroughly transformed; the original source cannot be identified anymore … My jewelry pieces may appear like artifacts of a past civilization, fossils from another planet, or the ornaments of fabled beings. »

Carina Shoshtary, « Confused Branches 3″ (detail), 2015, necklace

Seth Papac  - Cali Condensation, 2015, necklace, raised and anodized aluminum, brass, rayon, velour, 1016x508x102 mm, photo: artist
MFA, Metals/Jewelry, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, 2009
« Life in Southern California, with its unreal sunsets, light-bleached buildings, and vestiges of 70s style, brought my memory to a saturation point, forming crystals of experience … These merged into objects with varying physical relationships to the body–at the scale of architecture, at the scale of jewelry, and in between. Utilizing the vocabulary of jewelry and architecture, space and place are explored–from the past to the present, from the personal to the cliché, from the obvious to the mysterious. »

Aric Verrastro – Spaces, 2015, necklace, steel, acrylic paint, polyster, thread, 58 x 8.5 x 3 cm, photo: artist

 MFA, Metalsmithing/Jewelry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 2015

« I have recently been displaced from living in a city, which has left an emptiness in my life. The creation of each piece has become a method to fill the void. The forms are architectural, modular, constructed from steel, becoming allegorical representations of the energy of a thriving, vibrant environment … As jewelry, the body completes the piece as people fill and give life to architectural spaces, expressing the vitality and connection I feel toward the urban human experience. »

Timothy Veske-McMahon  Borve VI (on the body), plastic, aluminum, 8.5 x 12.5 x 1 cm, photo: artits
MFA, Metalsmithing, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, 2013
« We seek out and delve into mirrors for clarifying affirmation but, in truth, are met with a foreign body … This perceived closeness of similarity and familiarity is a deception–fictitious shorthand we use in identifying within society and relationships. If the act of definition is a loss of information, is it possible to create a loss-less object? »

 

 

EXPO ‘Timothy McMahon: (un)earth’ – Beyond Fashion Gallery, Antwerp (BE) – 27 Oct.-3 Dec. 2011

Timothy McMahon: (un)earth

The latest work by jeweler Timothy McMahon is presented under the title (un)earth, classifying the series of brooches and body objects in the realm of anti-rocks, frozen nonsensically at a point of fictional metamorphosis between raw ore and traditionally refined object. Symbolically these pieces seek to unearth the truth of material as buried by process, technique, and labor. Oversized and ornamental prongs compete with cut gems while both become engulfed by geological chunks of shattered enamel. The snake begins to eat its tail as these objects inch closer to a genuine desire to become the objects of their own origin.

“I find inspiration in a system of evolution as applied to personal aesthetic. Each piece I create causes questions to form that can only be answered—and evaluated—through subsequent work. This design process leads me to explore issues of scale, color harmony, and form that reveal the core of what pleases, revolts, and bores me—equally important subjects. In sharing these experimentations in the form of jewelry I confront and challenge others to question their own aesthetic and (re)define how they see their own world.” 

Timothy McMahon  brooch

Timothy McMahon LumpBrD brooch

Timothy McMahon LumpBrC brooch (back)

Timothy McMahon brooch

Timothy McMahon
 

 

Beyond Fashion
Pourbusstraat 7
2000 – Antwerp
Belgium
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website: www.beyondfashion.be
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video : http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/timothymcmahon/timothy-jewelry-munich

TALENTE 2011 – during SCHMUCK, Munich (DE) – 16-22 mars 2011

where ? Internationale Handwerksmesse Munich (Munich, Germany)

Over 500 students and graduates from leading colleges around the world applied to exhibit in the special show TALENTE. A total of 96 young designers from 28 countries were chosen and invited to exhibit their works in TALENTE. The most interesting submissions will be awarded the TALENTE Prize on Saturday 19 March 2011. 

 

Selected participants for Talente 2011 :
Jewellery :
Farrah Al-Dujaili, Großbritannien/UK
Rachel Bell, Neuseeland/New Zealand
Aline Berdichevsky, Spanien/Spain
Eleanor Bolton, Großbritannien/UK
Roberta Burchardt, Schweden/Sweden
Yung-huei Chao, Taiwan, Saudi-Arabien/Taiwan, Saudi-Arabia
Nicolas Cheng, Schweden, Hong Kong /Sweden, Hong Kong
Marielle Debethune, Frankreich, Spanien/France, Spain
Matthias Dyer, Deutschland/Germany
Maaike Ebbinge, Niederlande/The Netherlands
Carolina Gimeno, Chile, Spanien/Chile, Spain
Sachiyo Higaki, Deutschland, Japan/Germany, Japan
Younghee Hong, Südskorea, USA/South Korea, USA
Samantha Kelly, Neuseeland/New Zealand
Vinit Koosolmanomai, Thailand
Nadine Kuffner, Deutschland/Germany
Hyorim Lee, Südkorea/South Korea
Zhao Li, Belgien, China/Belgium, China
Hanna Lundborg, Schweden/Sweden
Carolina Martinez Linares, Deutschland, Kolumbien/Germany, Columbia
Jasmin Matzakow, Deutschland/Germany
Timothy McMahon, USA
Veera Metso, Finnland/Finland
Mel Miller, Australien/Australia
Natalia Milosz-Piekarska, Australien, Polen/Australia, Poland
Nick Mullins, USA
Rosa Nogués, Spanien/Spain
Deborah Rudolph, Deutschland/Germany
Kvetoslava Flora Sekanova, Neuseeland, Slowakei/New Zealand, Slovakia
Wen-Tzu Sun, Taiwan
Lilli Veers, Deutschland/Germany
Li-Chu Wu, Taiwan, Großbritannien/Taiwan, UK
ceramics : (I saw) Vivi Touloumidi, Deutschland/Griechenland – Germany, Greece  

 
Aline Berdichevsky (membre de Bórax08001 ) ‘Reconstruction’ brooch

Carolina Gimeno (membre de Bórax08001 )

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

Zhao Li - ring ‘Finding Neverland’- textile, plastic, silver

Eleanor Bolton - Necklace: Grey Coiled Rope 2010 dyed cotton rope and yarn

Marielle Debethune – série ‘Carapace’

 

Timothy McMahon (US) – Necklaces 2010

 

Vivi Touloumidi – ‘Medousa’ fine silver , email , steel

 

Younghee Hong (USA/South Korea)-  ‘Unconscious #1′-  brooch- cable ties

Carolina Martinez Linares

Li-Chu Wu paper brooch

 

Talente 2011
Internationale Handwerksmesse Munich
Max-Joseph-Str. 4
80333 – Munich
Germany
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website: www.hwk-muenchen.de

EXPO ‘Spectrum’ – Heidi Lowe Gallery, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (USA) – 9 Oct.-9 Nov. 2010

« Spectrum: A Broad Range of Varied but Related Ideas and Objects that Explore Color »,

a group show co-curated by Megan Romero and Ashley Willemain. They have brought together a select group of artists who use color as a central aspect of their work. International recognized artists, Amy Tavern, Melissa Tolar, Timothy McMahon, and Sally Collins will present a variety of works including intricate brooches with gemstones and rings that frame beautiful fabrics.

Spectrum will be on view through November 9th. Gallery Hours Daily 10-6

«  »Spectrum » is an exhibition focused on contemporary jewelry inspired by color featuring Sally Collins, Timothy McMahon, Amy Tavern, and Melissa Tolar. These artists utilize a wide variety of formats, processes and materials, but are connected through the importance of color in their work. Color has played a dominant role in the Fine Arts for many generations, from the specific hues of paintings to the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture. Until recently, color played a secondary role within the field of jewelry, limited to the addition of gemstones, patinas or enamels. With the freedom to break out of the traditional metalsmithing techniques and processes, color has become a force to be reckoned with. « 

Amy Tavern – Earrings

Amy Tavern – necklace

Sally Collins (UK)-  Bridesmaid Ring - Oxidized Sterling SIlver, fabric, cotton

Timothy McMahon (US) – Necklace 

Melissa Tolar – Enamel, hand-cast gems, and pearl brooch

Melissa Tolar – necklace

 

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