Please join us Friday November 11 at 7pm for an artist talk with Beatrice Brovia.

 Beatrice will be traveling here in support of her exhibition ‘Expenditures’ at JEWELERS’WERK in Washington, D.C. opening Nov. 5 and on view through Nov. 25. Her work is also included in CULT, the recent exhibition initiated by Current Obsession Magazine & Platform in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum ’s-Hertogenbosch, Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in The Netherlands.

Designer Beatrice Brovia was born in Modena, Italy in 1985. She attended Politecnico di Milano, graduating in 2007, before earning her Masters in Jewelry and Corpus from Konstfack University in 2009. She opened a studio in Stockholm that same year. Brovia focuses primarily on jewelry, and finds motivation and inspiration for her designs in the medium’s ritualized and symbolic value.

In 2011, along with designer Nicolas Cheng, Brovia launched Conversation Piece, a collaborative art and design practice. Conversation Piece focuses on material culture and craftsmanship, and the partners’ work ranges from installations and interiors to conceptually-driven jewelry, furniture, and decorative arts.

Brovia’s work has been exhibited internationally since 2009 at venues such as Design Miami/Basel, the Milan Furniture Fair, Sungkok Art Museum in Seoul, and PAD Paris, among others. She lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Please join us for a talk with Dutch artist Evert Nijland, Tuesday evening October 25th at 7pm.

Nijland is traveling to the US  in support of his solo exhibition Between Black and White at Gallery Loupe, which is currently on view through November 5th.

 For twenty years Nijland’s objects and jewels have navigated a spectacular course between the primal and sophisticated, raw and genteel, historic and modern, luxe and quotidian, tangible and intellectual. By investigating cultural markers long considered opposite, like ornate Baroque embellishments and conceptual contemporary aesthetics – along with substances as diverse as textile and iron, rope and porcelain, rubber and mole fur – he encourages us to perceive art through an alternate set of criteria. In both free-standing and wearable formats, Nijland seamlessly blends the autonomy of sculpture with the functionality of jewelry.

Sienna Patti Contemporary and Brooklyn Metal Works are pleased to present an evening with Helen Britton. Visiting from Munich, Germany in support of her solo exhibition Wildstone at Sienna Patti, Helen Britton will be giving an artist lecture followed by a book signing at Brooklyn Metal Works on Friday evening October 21 at 7pm.

Britton’s newest publication Wildstone is premised on the work completed while in residence at the Jakob Bengel Foundation in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. This launch will feature select pieces from the exhibition, on display for one night only in Brooklyn. Books will be for sale during the signing.

Wildstone is currently on view at Sienna Patti Contemporary through November 13.

Please join us Sunday July 17 at 6:30 pm in the gallery for an artist talk with Aaron Patrick Decker.

Decker will be speaking in support of his solo exhibition “Derby and His Badges” on view at Ornametum Gallery July 16 – August 14. 

Derby and His Badges

i have fallen in love with plastic toys
and cannot seem to let them go
i love blue, yellow and red ones
but the wooly ones feel  best
in my hands.
A police badge
a toy gun or plane
my polaroid camera and its floppy neckpiece
i was told metal toys are best
but these recollections will do.

-Aaron Patrick Decker

Please join us for an artist talk with Alissa Lamarre in support of her exhibition, Dividing Gravity, June 16th at 3pm.

Michigan born and based, Alissa Lamarre is a detail-oriented maker who has shown her work nationally and internationally, with recent exhibitions in Detroit, Boston, New York, and the Netherlands. She received her BFA from Western Michigan University and her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2013.

Alissa has been a practicing metalsmith for nine years, primarily focusing on jewelry and small objects. The foundation for Alissa’s artistic interests reside in drawing, illustration, and the exploration of material language, using her native Midwest’s physical and cultural landscape to explore the various manifestations of heritage and navigation.  

She currently resides in Detroit, MI dividing her time between her private practice, managing Simone DeSousa Gallery, and teaching at Fritzwillis Jewelry Studio in Franklin, MI.

Dividing Gravity

Artist’s Statement of Intent:

My interest is based in the roles of the imagination as we grow older. Daydreaming and other methods of escapism evolve with our lives, as we become increasingly inundated with formalities and expectations.  We develop new mechanisms to simplify and alleviate, in an increasingly fervent attempt to carve away spaces in time to simply be. 

This body of work is made from a position of standing still; a luxury that allows us to be anchored to the ground and yet completely vulnerable to elements, time, and the inherent duality in escapism. It is a position that resists growth, yet all the stories and scenarios harbored in the mind find fertile ground to take hold and spread like wildfires. 

This series of objects vary in form, from adornment to sculptural landscape, running alongside each other as parallel vantage points.  Some predict the future, others dwell in the past, allowing the subtle transference of our stories. Form and surface may transcend for a short while, if not to simply serve as validity for our daydreams.

There is earnest failure in gravity, and an undeniable comfort in falling back to earth.

– Alissa Lamarre

 Dividing Gravity will be on view though June 30. 

Please join us In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works for an artist talk with Vered Kaminski on June 2 at 7pm.

Kaminski, one of Israel’s most prominent artist-jewelers, was awarded the 2014 Andy Prize for Contemporary Crafts, which included a solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and accompanying catalog. Her latest pieces explore rocks – both natural and artificial – with which Kaminski makes brooches and pendants featuring “stones” of cement, sand, pigment and glue, as well as actual stones, or some combination of both. Due to her exemplary craftsmanship, these fissured rock formations – whether real or fabricated – appear interchangeable.

Process is the entry point to understanding Kaminski’s practice. She delights in detail and often follows a mathematical approach to jewelry-making. Kaminski employs the meditative aspects of repetition to create delicately intricate structures that feature meandering wire lines and/or myriad forms found in her homeland, for which she utilizes diverse materials – both precious and plain. The pieces often have architectural associations, such as fencing, or ornamental connections that sometimes channel Islamic tracery, as a way of acknowledging her Palestinian neighbors.

Vered Kaminski is visiting from Israel in support of her upcoming solo exhibition “Sand In A Bottle” at Gallery Loupe. This show is comprised of selections from the “Artificial Stones” exhibition held at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2015, and will open with a reception at Gallery Loupe on June 4 from 6-8 pm.

Please join us Saturday May 7th at 3pm for an artist talk with Jiro Kamata.

Known for creating jewelry utilizing lenses from cameras as the focal point, Kamata’s newest work continues to investigate optical effects with mirrored surfaces and a colorful play of light with geometry.

Born in Hirosaki, Japan, Jiro Kamata currently lives and works in Munich, Germany. For 9 years Jiro was the Artistic Assistant at Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Department of Jewellery and continues to exhibit his work and lecture internationally. Represented by Ornamentum Gallery, Jiro will be visiting the US in support of “Flare” his featured exhibition with Ornamentum at the upcoming Collective Design Fair, on view May 3-8 in New York City. The exhibition will continue at Ornamentum Gallery in Hudson, NY May 10-31.

Entering the Crinkle and Crankle of Wire
Line traps space, Line claims space, Line calibrates space, Line captures a face! Other jewellery structures enter historic locations and change the history. How can jewellery be a measure of a time?

 Please join us Saturday April 16 at 3pm in the gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works for a lecture with visiting artist Robert Baines. 

This talk is being held in conjunction with Mr. Baines current exhibition “Perceptions” presented by Gallery Loupe, on view at Heller Gallery April 13-17.

 Living Treasure: Master of Australian Craft, goldsmith and emeritus professor at RMIT University, Robert Baines has maintained a national and international profile with exhibitions, awards, lectures and publications for more than forty years. His works are in prestigious public collections in Great Britain, Germany, France, Poland, USA, New Zealand, and Australia. In the research areas of artist goldsmithing and archaeometallurgy he received a Winston Churchill Study grant (1979) and this was followed by Senior Fulbright and three Senior Andrew Mellon Conservation Fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY. In Germany he has received the Bayerischer Staatpreis gold medal (2005); Friedrich Becker Preis (2008), and Herbert Hofmann Preis(2013). Most recent books published are Bracelet-Java-la-Grande (2006) and More Amazing Schmuck Stories by Robert Baines (2009) and Fabulous Follies Frauds and Fakes (2013).