Jewelry at ACC Baltimore: Part Two

On display the past few days in Baltimore were a thousand examples of the sort of oversized, exuberant pieces that have been fashionable for a while: gigantic rings, bracelets that might work as weapons, and neckpieces that function as collars, even shawls.

Still, there were surprises among the effusive jewelry at the show:

The surface of Emanuela Duca's cast-silver pieces looks like molten material, on which lays a little treasure - often a pearl, offering a striking rough-smooth contrast.

Melissa Finelli makes rings of sleek silver hemispheres, from which a bunch of irregular tendrils seem to be extruding.

Arthur Hash shapes recycled dental materials into quirky blobular rings.

Andrea Janosik wraps jewel-tone leather strips to make earrings, arm- and neckware that recall a garden gone wild.

Beverly Tadeu developed her raw kudzu-looking aesthetic at a time when she wanted to feel "rooted."

Finally, Myung Urso, who won one of the six show Awards of Excellence, stands out for the wild, unexpected sculptural quality of her pieces.

I find great beauty in this unrestrained stuff. How about you?