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Jewelry at ACC Baltimore: Part Three

So there was lots of wild, lavish jewelry on display at the show. But, perhaps surprisingly, there were also a few makers of very tidy, understated pieces. Some examples:

Matthew Smith has several lines of work in silver, but they are all refined and orderly in their charm.

Hilary Hachey makes lariat neckpieces notable for their asymmetry but also their overall geometrical uniformity.

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.

Jewelry at ACC Baltimore: Part One

Choosing favorites among the more than 200 jewelry exhibitors at the ACC Baltimore Show this year is frankly impossible. Just getting to see them all is a challenge, and the array of innovative work is nothing short of mind-boggling.

But we'll take an admittedly inadequate stab at summing up the jewelry part of this ginormous exhibition. Among the many jewelry exhibitors, three aesthetics stood out: tidy, exuberant, and fuzzy.

Fantastic Ceramics at ACC Baltimore

There are about 75 booths packed with ceramics here at ACC Baltimore, presenting a certain time-space challenge for a medium junkie such as myself. (That's time, as in never having enough of it to spend in each artist's booth, and space, as in having just one carry-on bag at my disposal.)

A few of of the many that caught my eye:

Awards of Excellence at ACC Baltimore

Fresh from the floor of the 700-artist show, we're excited to report the winners of the 2011 Awards of Excellence. This year's jurors were Elisabeth R. Agro and Heather Gibson of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The six artists recognized for their work are:

Taikyun Kim (Edison, NJ), whose hand-sculpted metal jewelry of oxidized silver overlaid with platinum or 24 karat gold evokes the cosmos. In Kim's work, the judges saw "a true unique voice," unlike that of any other jeweler in the show.
http://taikyunkim.com

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