I just came across a slide show from the New York Times Online featuring jewelry and jewels that have recently sold at auction. Basically, it’s a gratuitous menagerie of baubles. Surprisingly, many of the items were auctioned off at three…
I came across this beautiful quote by Esther Brinkmann in a new book that I’m reading Called Just Must. Just Must (must means black in Estonian) was a 2008 international exhibition held in Estonia featuring monochromatic works articulated solely in…
Sometimes thing look really bad before they’re finished… This is one of those times.
I’m lucky to be staying with friends this weekend in upstate New York. They run an inn on the the Northville Lake near the Great Sacandaga, and it’s beautiful here! I found an amazing treasure in the bathroom here… Domes…
Yesterday I went to go see Kirsten Hassenfeld’s exhibit, Dans la Lune, at the David Winton Bell Gallery. If you couldn’t tell by the title of this post, it was pretty phenomenal! As it turns out, dans la lune is…
I’ve been inspired to revisit some thoughts that I had been working on in the past. It could have been all this thinking about color, or maybe I just need a break from the monochromatic color scheme that’s currently encompassing…
This image has been posted in my studio for years; and after staring at it for a while tonight it has answered a lot of the questions that I’ve been asking myself lately and has also helped me resolve some…
Since recently reading Jamie Bennet’s article, In the Midst of Color: reflections on color’s inescapable presence, I have been thinking a lot about the color gray. More of a tool than a color, it is a utilitarian mix of black…
I’m taking some time out of the studio and away from the gallery this week and have been spending some much needed time river front in the woods. The skys have been superb the past couple of days, here’s a…
The end of summer means that it’s time again for Metalsmith Magazines exhibition in print. This years exhibition, Saturated: Color and Metal, focuses on the visual experience that color brings to jewelry. In addition to displaying the work of 34…