Society of Arts & Crafts, Boston
Floral Fictions: Recent Work by Jessica Calderwood
January 31 – April 19, 2014 |
Reception: Friday, January 31, 6 – 8pm
For the past decade Calderwood has developed a unique body of work largely through enameling, an ancient process of fusing glass to metal. Floral Fictions, presents recent sculpture and jewelry that combines flower and botanical forms with fragments of the human body in order to address the narrative of human life cycles: change, growth, aging, death. Her beautiful and exquisitely crafted objects offer humorous and sometimes ironic insights into what it means to be alive. The exhibition will also present some mixed media work as well as a range of sketches and collages that provide insights into the artist’s working process.
MAD Museum, NY
Fashion Jewelry: The Collection of Barbara Berger
June 25, 2013 to April 20, 2014
Presenting a stunning array of extravagant fashion jewelry, this exhibition celebrates craftsmanship and creativity spanning five decades. The exhibition features pieces by designers such as Balenciaga, Chanel, Dior, Miriam Haskell, and Yves Saint Laurent in an eye-popping display of necklaces, bracelets, brooches and earrings, many of them one
of a kind.
Many of the works were expressly made to be worn with haute couture clothing by fashion designers that range from Chanel to Yves Saint Laurent, and Dior to Dolce & Gabbana. The Berger collection and this exhibition are virtual encyclopedias of this exciting and provocative era of fashion history. The exhibition also underscores the continuing popularity of couture jewelry today through stellar contemporary works.
SNAG Online Exhibition
Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge
Objects of Status, Power & Adornment
December 3, 2013 – January 31, 2014
Mobilia Gallery is pleased to present “Objects of Status, Power & Adornment Part II,” featuring renowned metalsmiths and emerging jewelry artists working with a myriad of materials and techniques to creatively explore their vision and interpretation of jewelry.
Forbes Gallery: Jewelry Gallery, NY
September 21, 2013 – February 22, 2014
Variations on a Theme: 25 Years of Design from the AJDC
The American Jewelry Design Council is a non-profit educational corporation who endeavor to educate and promote the awareness of jewelry as an art. Annually, each member of the group creates a Design Project where each designer interprets a single concept or theme. The final product is a collection of unique jewelry pieces joined by a solitary concept. On view in this exhibition is a selection of Design Projects from the very first, in 1996 to the most recent, in 2013.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Jewels by JAR
November 20, 2013–March 9, 2014
This exhibition features more than four hundred works by one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers of the twentieth century, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR.
The exhibition is the first devoted to a contemporary artist of gems at the Metropolitan Museum and features a selection of JAR’s finest pieces – from jewels in classical flower forms and organic shapes to witty objects d’art – all executed with the most exquisite gem stones including diamonds, sapphires, garnets, topazes, tourmalines, and citrines in an original combination of colors. Rosenthal’s one-of-a-kind creations place him among the ranks of history’s greatest jewelers.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gems, Jewelry, Treasures: From Antiquity to the Present
Through June 1, 2014
What is a gem? “Jewels, Gems, and Treasures: Ancient to Modern,” the first exhibition in the Museum’s new Rita J. and Stanley H. Kaplan Family Foundation Gallery. Drawn from the MFA’s collection and select loans, these range from a 24th-century BC Nubian conch shell amulet, to a 20th-century platinum, diamond, ruby, and sapphire Flag brooch honoring the sacrifices of the Doughboys in World War I.