New NYCJW "Jewelry Confidants" series featuring me & Saskia van Es!
Sending our Jewelry Lovers a friendly reminder to register NOW for this week's exceptional episode of JEWELRY CONFIDANTS.
Wearing Is Sharing featuring the innovative contemporary jeweler and artist Jillian Moore in convo with her jewelry confidant, writer and historian Saskia van Es.
Jillian has been expounding on the power of wearing contemporary jewelry in public. Saskia wanted to find out if this is why Jillian’s jewelry is so colorful. Join us for this conversation about subtle activism and the democratization of experiencing art this Thursday, April 8th, at 12:00pm EST
Jewelry Confidants is our on-going series of conversations between two friends who also happen to LOVE jewelry. Imagine being a fly on the wall while a conversation between old friends is taking place - Jewelry Confidants is like eavesdropping with permission!
Jillian Moore (b.1981) is a full time artist and some time writer based in Iowa City, Iowa working primarily in the field of contemporary jewelry and small sculpture. Moore received a BFA in Metalsmithing and Jewelry Making from Western Illinois University in 2004, and an MFA in Jewelry and Metal Arts from the University of Iowa in 2008. Moore’s work has been exhibited in the US as well as abroad, most recently at Gallery 2052 in Chicago, IL (as part of Jewelry Edition V5), Alliages in Lille, France, and Friends of Carlotta, in Zürich, Switzerland.
Moore's work is inspired by forms in the natural world, bent by a bonkers sense of humor, and amplified by an interest in the fantastical and anarchic. Operating with a background in metalsmithing and a foreground in experimental resins and other “new materials”, Moore's work is executed with the obsessive, monomaniacal approach of a craft discipline training tempered with a casual disregard for material or disciplinary hierarchies.
You can see Moore's latest wearable work at Gilded Pear Gallery in Cedar Rapids, IA in the exhibition "Polyphonous21: Mimetic Lives 2". This project is a co-exhibition with artist Satomi Kawai, and marks the artists' 15th anniversary of exhibiting their work together.
Above: "Whopper Ring with Yellow Gemmer", polymer clay, epoxy resin, paint, pigment, found/altered acrylic, fabricated brass by Jillian Moore. Available at Gallery 2052 as part of Jewelry Editiong V5
Saskia van Es
Saskia van Es (Amsterdam, 1972) is an art historian. She writes about contemporary jewelry. Her fascinations are the meaning people attach to jewelry and the histories behind jewelry materials. At the moment she is exploring the environmental impact of gold, stones, pearls and man-made materials. She was a board member of the Françoise van den Bosch Foundation.
