David Bielander
Up In Smoke installation view.
Ornamentum Gallery, Hudson, NY
January 16 - February 21, 2021
Up In Smoke installation view.
Ornamentum Gallery, Hudson, NY
January 16 - February 21, 2021
Up In Smoke installation view.
Ornamentum Gallery, Hudson, NY
January 16 - February 21, 2021
Karl Fritsch, Pipe, 2020
emerald, silver, cubic zirconia, 4.92 x 1.3 x 1" / 12.5 x 3.3 x 2.7 cm
(Inv# 6484)
German artist Karl Fritsch, a jeweler with a huge art-world following, is primarily known for making rings. He has created a pipe of rough emerald, silver and synthetic sapphires.
Born in 1963, Fritsch began with traditional Goldsmith's practical training in 1982, followed by studies at the renowned jewelry department at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Frisch's works can be found in important private and public collections worldwide, including the Stedelijk Museum (NL), the Museum of Arts & Design, (NY), and the Metropolitan Museum (NY).
John Iversen, Pot Leaves, 2020, brooch, 18k gold
3 x 1.875 x .375" / 7.6 x 4.8 x 1 cm
(Inv# 6562)
John Iversen is a master at creating leaves in gold and silver (etc.) and these leaves find themselves in countless collections. Each piece is unique, sensitive and hyper-realistic with such details as decay, breakage or insect damage, seemingly taken directly from nature. For the Up In Smoke exhibition, Iversen gives us 3 extraordinary Pot Leaves, brooches / pins in 18k gold, one juxtaposed with darkened silver.
John Iversen was born in Germany where he was trained as a goldsmith. He later emigrated to the U.S.A., and has been a notable NY studio jeweler since the 1970's. Iversen is easily one of the most collectible American jewelers, with work found in such institutions as the Cooper-Hewitt and the Metropolitan Museum, LACMA, the MFA Boston and others.
John Iversen, Pot Leaves, 2020, brooch, 18k gold
3 x 1.875 x .375" / 7.6 x 4.8 x 1 cm
(Inv# 6562)
John Iversen is a master at creating leaves in gold and silver (etc.) and these leaves find themselves in countless collections. Each piece is unique, sensitive and hyper-realistic with such details as decay, breakage or insect damage, seemingly taken directly from nature. For the Up In Smoke exhibition, Iversen gives us 3 extraordinary Pot Leaves, brooches / pins in 18k gold, one juxtaposed with darkened silver.
John Iversen was born in Germany where he was trained as a goldsmith. He later emigrated to the U.S.A., and has been a notable NY studio jeweler since the 1970's. Iversen is easily one of the most collectible American jewelers, with work found in such institutions as the Cooper-Hewitt and the Metropolitan Museum, LACMA, the MFA Boston and others.
John Iversen, Pot Leaves, 2020, brooch and tie tack, 18k gold
John Iversen is a master at creating leaves in gold and silver (etc.) and these leaves find themselves in countless collections. Each piece is unique, sensitive and hyper-realistic with such details as decay, breakage or insect damage, seemingly taken directly from nature. For the Up In Smoke exhibition, Iversen gives us 3 extraordinary Pot Leaves, brooches / pins in 18k gold, one juxtaposed with darkened silver.
John Iversen was born in Germany where he was trained as a goldsmith. He later emigrated to the U.S.A., and has been a notable NY studio jeweler since the 1970's. Iversen is easily one of the most collectible American jewelers, with work found in such institutions as the Cooper-Hewitt and the Metropolitan Museum, LACMA, the MFA Boston and others.
Up In Smoke, exhibition view, Design/ Miami 2020
Philip Sajet, Pipe, 2020, 18k gold, paduk wood, with elmwood box, 15.75 x .8 x 1.5" / 40 x 2 x 3.8 cm
(Inv# 6527)
Dutch jeweler Philip Sajet has created a flute-like pipe of padauk wood and a delicate gold bowl that nests ceremoniously in an elmwood box
Considered to be one of the most skillful artist goldsmiths in Europe, Sajet has exhibited his work around the world. It can be found in important public collections worldwide, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Musée des arts Décoratifs, Paris, the Royal College of Art, London, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Corning Museum of Glass.
Philip Sajet, Pipe, 2020, 18k gold, paduk wood, with elmwood box, 15.75 x .8 x 1.5" / 40 x 2 x 3.8 cm
(Inv# 6527)
Dutch jeweler Philip Sajet has created a flute-like pipe of padauk wood and a delicate gold bowl that nests ceremoniously in an elmwood box
Considered to be one of the most skillful artist goldsmiths in Europe, Sajet has exhibited his work around the world. It can be found in important public collections worldwide, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Musée des arts Décoratifs, Paris, the Royal College of Art, London, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Corning Museum of Glass.
Philip Sajet, Pipe, 2020, 18k gold, paduk wood, with elmwood box, 15.75 x .8 x 1.5" / 40 x 2 x 3.8 cm
(Inv# 6527)
Dutch jeweler Philip Sajet has created a flute-like pipe of padauk wood and a delicate gold bowl that nests ceremoniously in an elmwood box
Considered to be one of the most skillful artist goldsmiths in Europe, Sajet has exhibited his work around the world. It can be found in important public collections worldwide, including the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Musée des arts Décoratifs, Paris, the Royal College of Art, London, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Corning Museum of Glass.
Gerd Rothmann, Der Rausch von Rauch, 2020, table sculpture, silver, 11.81 x 7.87 x 8.6" / 30 x 20 x 22 cm
(Inv# 6524)
The only non- functional artwork in the exhibition, the sculpture Der Rausch von Rauch, (The Intoxication from Smoke) features a silver casting of the artist's hand with several pipes balanced upon the thumb in a striking and appropriately surreal composition that speaks to weightlessness while alluding to the painter Magritte. Weighing just shy of 3 kilos of cast silver, the artwork's physical weight contrasts its ethereality.
Gerd Rothmann has been one of the seminal figures in contemporary jewelry since the 1960's. In the 70's he researched the direct connection of jewelry with the body, and the negative spaces between body parts, which led to his signature works encorporating the fingerprint and other imprints of the skin. Lending his (or another's) 'skin' to each piece ,the jewelry of Rothmann achieves an intense connection with the wearer. A prolific silversmith as well, Rothmann incorporates his imprint into vessels and objet of many functions. Gerd Rothmann's works hold cherished places in countless museum and private collections worldwide, including LACMA, the MET, the Museum of Arts & Design, The Victoria & Albert and many more.
Gerd Rothmann, Der Rausch von Rauch, 2020, table sculpture, silver, 11.81 x 7.87 x 8.6" / 30 x 20 x 22 cm
(Inv# 6524)
The only non- functional artwork in the exhibition, the sculpture Der Rausch von Rauch, (The Intoxication from Smoke) features a silver casting of the artist's hand with several pipes balanced upon the thumb in a striking and appropriately surreal composition that speaks to weightlessness while alluding to the painter Magritte. Weighing just shy of 3 kilos of cast silver, the artwork's physical weight contrasts its ethereality.
Gerd Rothmann has been one of the seminal figures in contemporary jewelry since the 1960's. In the 70's he researched the direct connection of jewelry with the body, and the negative spaces between body parts, which led to his signature works encorporating the fingerprint and other imprints of the skin. Lending his (or another's) 'skin' to each piece ,the jewelry of Rothmann achieves an intense connection with the wearer. A prolific silversmith as well, Rothmann incorporates his imprint into vessels and objet of many functions. Gerd Rothmann's works hold cherished places in countless museum and private collections worldwide, including LACMA, the MET, the Museum of Arts & Design, The Victoria & Albert and many more.
Ralph Bakker, Just Another Pipe, 2020, silver, tantalum, black coral, 9.5 x 1.3 x 1.3" / 24 x 3.3 x 3.3 cm
(Inv# 6554)
For Ornamentum's Up In Smoke exhibition, Dutch jeweler Ralph Bakker has created a fascinating pipe in silver, blackened tantalum with a black coral mouthpiece- a contemporary ceremonial accoutrement. Round discs on each end in visual symbiosis with the round bowl, juxtaposed to the rough, grainy surface of the ridged shaft. Within the bowl, Bakker has created a screen of silver filaments where the medium will burn as an offering on an alter.
Born in 1958, Ralph Bakker is a Dutch jeweler based in Rotterdam. He attended the Dutch Intermediate Technical School in Schoonhoven, the Netherlands from 1986 to 1991 before enrolling at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1991 to 1994. Since then he has been active as a studio jeweler, exhibiting his work extensively internationally. Ralph Bakker’s work is featured in numerous renowned public and private collections, including the Newark Museum of Art, the Koch Collection in Switzerland and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Ralph Bakker, Just Another Pipe, 2020, silver, tantalum, black coral, 9.5 x 1.3 x 1.3" / 24 x 3.3 x 3.3 cm
For Ornamentum's Up In Smoke exhibition, Dutch jeweler Ralph Bakker has created a fascinating pipe in silver, blackened tantalum with a black coral mouthpiece- a contemporary ceremonial accoutrement. Round discs on each end in visual symbiosis with the round bowl, juxtaposed to the rough, grainy surface of the ridged shaft. Within the bowl, Bakker has created a screen of silver filaments where the medium will burn as an offering on an alter.
Born in 1958, Ralph Bakker is a Dutch jeweler based in Rotterdam. He attended the Dutch Intermediate Technical School in Schoonhoven, the Netherlands from 1986 to 1991 before enrolling at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1991 to 1994. Since then he has been active as a studio jeweler, exhibiting his work extensively internationally. Ralph Bakker’s work is featured in numerous renowned public and private collections, including the Newark Museum of Art, the Koch Collection in Switzerland and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Ralph Bakker, Just Another Pipe, 2020, silver, tantalum, black coral, 9.5 x 1.3 x 1.3" / 24 x 3.3 x 3.3 cm
For Ornamentum's Up In Smoke exhibition, Dutch jeweler Ralph Bakker has created a fascinating pipe in silver, blackened tantalum with a black coral mouthpiece- a contemporary ceremonial accoutrement. Round discs on each end in visual symbiosis with the round bowl, juxtaposed to the rough, grainy surface of the ridged shaft. Within the bowl, Bakker has created a screen of silver filaments where the medium will burn as an offering on an alter.
Born in 1958, Ralph Bakker is a Dutch jeweler based in Rotterdam. He attended the Dutch Intermediate Technical School in Schoonhoven, the Netherlands from 1986 to 1991 before enrolling at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1991 to 1994. Since then he has been active as a studio jeweler, exhibiting his work extensively internationally. Ralph Bakker’s work is featured in numerous renowned public and private collections, including the Newark Museum of Art, the Koch Collection in Switzerland and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Tiff Massey, My First Time A White Bitch Had Me Smoking Out Of An Apple, 2020
one-hitter, silver, 1.2 x 1.1 x 1.5" / 3 x 2.9 x 3.8 cm
Sold
"I was curated into this exhibition to provide the African American perspective to marijuana. I thought the concept of being curated by one of the few contemporary jewelry galleries based on my ethnicity and not the strength of my portfolio, and to discuss the topic of marijuana, of all things, is interesting to say the least. I think it's fucked up more Black and Brown bodies are in jail and or prisons for plants that are now legal in many states. Those states in which many Black and Brown people are not included in the business of the legal sale of marijuana. I created a piece based on my first experience smoking marijuana. My first time was with a white girl in the locker room of the Catholic high school I attended. To be clear, my first time a white girl brought marijuana on campus to smoke with or without me. We did not have a pipe so she made one out of an apple. This was my first introduction to the "drug". I made a silver apple that functions as a one hitter. You pack it and smoke it."
Tiff Massey is an interdisciplinary artist from Detroit, Michigan. She holds an MFA in metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work, inspired by African standards of economic vitality, includes both large-scale and wearable sculptures, music and performance. Massey counts the iconic material culture of 1980’s hip-hop as a major influence in her jewelry. She uses contemporary observances of class and race through the lens of an African diaspora, combined with inspiration drawn from her experience in Detroit.
Tiff Massey is a 2015 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship awardee, as well as a two-time John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge winner, and the 2019 recipient of Art Jewelry Forum’s Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant. Massey has participated in numerous international residencies including Red Bull in Detroit, Ideas City (in Detroit, Athens, Greece and Arles, France) hosted by The New Museum of New York and with the Volterra-Detroit Foundation in Volterra, Italy. Tiff Massey’s work has been widely exhibited in both national and international museums and galleries.
Tiff Massey, My First Time A White Bitch Had Me Smoking Out Of An Apple, 2020
one-hitter, silver, 1.2 x 1.1 x 1.5" / 3 x 2.9 x 3.8 cm
Sold
"I was curated into this exhibition to provide the African American perspective to marijuana. I thought the concept of being curated by one of the few contemporary jewelry galleries based on my ethnicity and not the strength of my portfolio, and to discuss the topic of marijuana, of all things, is interesting to say the least. I think it's fucked up more Black and Brown bodies are in jail and or prisons for plants that are now legal in many states. Those states in which many Black and Brown people are not included in the business of the legal sale of marijuana. I created a piece based on my first experience smoking marijuana. My first time was with a white girl in the locker room of the Catholic high school I attended. To be clear, my first time a white girl brought marijuana on campus to smoke with or without me. We did not have a pipe so she made one out of an apple. This was my first introduction to the "drug". I made a silver apple that functions as a one hitter. You pack it and smoke it."
Tiff Massey is an interdisciplinary artist from Detroit, Michigan. She holds an MFA in metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work, inspired by African standards of economic vitality, includes both large-scale and wearable sculptures, music and performance. Massey counts the iconic material culture of 1980’s hip-hop as a major influence in her jewelry. She uses contemporary observances of class and race through the lens of an African diaspora, combined with inspiration drawn from her experience in Detroit.
Tiff Massey is a 2015 Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship awardee, as well as a two-time John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge winner, and the 2019 recipient of Art Jewelry Forum’s Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant. Massey has participated in numerous international residencies including Red Bull in Detroit, Ideas City (in Detroit, Athens, Greece and Arles, France) hosted by The New Museum of New York and with the Volterra-Detroit Foundation in Volterra, Italy. Tiff Massey’s work has been widely exhibited in both national and international museums and galleries.
Aaron Decker, Cup and Ball, 2020
pipe, enamel, copper, silver, 3 x 1" / 7.6 x 2.5 cm Ball 6" / 15.25 cm Ø
(Inv# 6525)
American artist Aaron Patrick Decker, created an intricately enameled toy, cup-and-ball, covered in diamond harlequin patterns. The cup handle is a one hitter that detaches via a silver chain to the ball, a toy too pretty to play with.
Decker is a jewelry artist based in Detroit whose work has been shown in exhibitions in the USA, Netherlands, China, Germany and more. He is the recipient of The Windgate Fellowship in 2012, Mercedes Benz Emerging Artist Award 2015 and the MARZEE Graduate prize 2015.
Aaron Decker, Cup and Ball, 2020
pipe, enamel, copper, silver, 3 x 1" / 7.6 x 2.5 cm Ball 6" / 15.25 cm Ø
(Inv# 6525)
American artist Aaron Patrick Decker, created an intricately enameled toy, cup-and-ball, covered in diamond harlequin patterns. The cup handle is a one hitter that detaches via a silver chain to the ball, a toy too pretty to play with.
Decker is a jewelry artist based in Detroit whose work has been shown in exhibitions in the USA, Netherlands, China, Germany and more. He is the recipient of The Windgate Fellowship in 2012, Mercedes Benz Emerging Artist Award 2015 and the MARZEE Graduate prize 2015.
Aaron Decker, Cup and Ball, 2020
pipe, enamel, copper, silver, 3 x 1" / 7.6 x 2.5 cm Ball 6" / 15.25 cm Ø
(Inv# 6525)
American artist Aaron Patrick Decker, created an intricately enameled toy, cup-and-ball, covered in diamond harlequin patterns. The cup handle is a one hitter that detaches via a silver chain to the ball, a toy too pretty to play with.
Decker is a jewelry artist based in Detroit whose work has been shown in exhibitions in the USA, Netherlands, China, Germany and more. He is the recipient of The Windgate Fellowship in 2012, Mercedes Benz Emerging Artist Award 2015 and the MARZEE Graduate prize 2015.
Aaron Decker, Cup and Ball, 2020
pipe, enamel, copper, silver, 3 x 1" / 7.6 x 2.5 cm Ball 6" / 15.25 cm Ø
(Inv# 6525)
American artist Aaron Patrick Decker, created an intricately enameled toy, cup-and-ball, covered in diamond harlequin patterns. The cup handle is a one hitter that detaches via a silver chain to the ball, a toy too pretty to play with.
Decker is a jewelry artist based in Detroit whose work has been shown in exhibitions in the USA, Netherlands, China, Germany and more. He is the recipient of The Windgate Fellowship in 2012, Mercedes Benz Emerging Artist Award 2015 and the MARZEE Graduate prize 2015.
Up In Smoke installation view.
Ornamentum Gallery, Hudson, NY
January 16 - February 21, 2021
Ted Noten, Homage to Geronimo, 2020
pipe, 3-D printed steel, brass, 24K gold-plate, 11.8 x 3.15 x 2.75" / 30 x 8 x 7 cm,
Edition of 5
‘Geronimo was my hero when I was a kid, Says Noten. ‘I hope that this homage may provide the spiritual wisdom and inner strength that Geronimo had.’ The Apache leader fighting for his homeland, this appropriated character was first presented as both plunderer and murderer; however, now we recognize Geronimo’s battles as heroism. A spirit rooted in the pipe dreams of the American consciousness; the smoke signals lead you the rest of the way towards a higher wisdom and understanding.
Ted Noten is one of the leading conceptual voices coming out of the Dutch Jewelry Scene, with feet confidently planted in the Art and Design worlds. Noten's works are found in countless collections worldwide, he has been the subject of a documentary film and two solo exhibitions at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and a major exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch.
Ted Noten, Homage to Geronimo, 2020
pipe, 3-D printed steel, brass, 24K gold-plate, 11.8 x 3.15 x 2.75" / 30 x 8 x 7 cm,
Edition of 5
‘Geronimo was my hero when I was a kid, Says Noten. ‘I hope that this homage may provide the spiritual wisdom and inner strength that Geronimo had.’ The Apache leader fighting for his homeland, this appropriated character was first presented as both plunderer and murderer; however, now we recognize Geronimo’s battles as heroism. A spirit rooted in the pipe dreams of the American consciousness; the smoke signals lead you the rest of the way towards a higher wisdom and understanding.
Ted Noten is one of the leading conceptual voices coming out of the Dutch Jewelry Scene, with feet confidently planted in the Art and Design worlds. Noten's works are found in countless collections worldwide, he has been the subject of a documentary film and two solo exhibitions at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and a major exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch.
Ted Noten, Homage to Geronimo, 2020
pipe, 3-D printed steel, brass, 24K gold-plate, 11.8 x 3.15 x 2.75" / 30 x 8 x 7 cm,
Edition of 5
‘Geronimo was my hero when I was a kid, Says Noten. ‘I hope that this homage may provide the spiritual wisdom and inner strength that Geronimo had.’ The Apache leader fighting for his homeland, this appropriated character was first presented as both plunderer and murderer; however, now we recognize Geronimo’s battles as heroism. A spirit rooted in the pipe dreams of the American consciousness; the smoke signals lead you the rest of the way towards a higher wisdom and understanding.
Ted Noten is one of the leading conceptual voices coming out of the Dutch Jewelry Scene, with feet confidently planted in the Art and Design worlds. Noten's works are found in countless collections worldwide, he has been the subject of a documentary film and two solo exhibitions at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, and a major exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch.
Gijs Bakker, Joyride, 2020
pipe, black porcelain partially glazed, brass screen
3.9 x 2.3 x 1.1" / 10 x 5.9 x 2.9 cm
Edition of 25- stamped GB on underside.
(Inv# 6518.1)
Gijs Bakker is a legend of the Dutch design world, a maker and designer of jewelry, home accessories and household appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces and exhibitions. He co-founded the venerated Droog Design in 1993, the Chi ha paura...? (‘Who is afraid of...?’) Foundation in 1996 and has been the creative director for Yii Taiwan since 2009. No contemporary design collection is complete without at least one Gijs Bakker example.
Gijs Bakker, Joyride, Platinum Limited Edition, 2020
pipe, black porcelain, platinum luster glaze, brass screen
3.9 x 2.3 x 1.1" / 10 x 5.9 x 2.9 cm
Edition of 5- stamped GB on underside, with certificate of authenticity
(Inv# 6512.1)
Gijs Bakker is a legend of the Dutch design world, a maker and designer of jewelry, home accessories and household appliances, furniture, interiors, public spaces and exhibitions. He co-founded the venerated Droog Design in 1993, the Chi ha paura...? (‘Who is afraid of...?’) Foundation in 1996 and has been the creative director for Yii Taiwan since 2009. No contemporary design collection is complete without at least one Gijs Bakker example.
David Clarke, Stashed, 2020
storage containers with fringed stands, pewter, silver-plate, steel
each approx. 7 x 7 x 13.75" / 18 x 18 x 35 cm
(Inv# 6519)
Clarke is one of the most prominent avant garde figures in metalwork in the UK. Through his
own studio work, he has mounted a vibrant challenge to settled assumptions about his medium.
While he is capable of good craftsmanship, the value of his work is primarily expressive,
conceptual and poetic.
Clarke writes: STASHED elevates the ritual of smoking marijuana it brings it center stage by
celebrating this taboo. Laws are becoming more relaxed around the use of marijuana. So, you
have a choice to stash your weed secretively within the lid or simply have it opulently in the
lidded bowl. We have choices, what are yours?
David Clarke, Stashed, 2020
storage containers with fringed stands, pewter, silver-plate, steel
each approx. 7 x 7 x 13.75" / 18 x 18 x 35 cm
(Inv# 6519)
Clarke is one of the most prominent avant garde figures in metalwork in the UK. Through his
own studio work, he has mounted a vibrant challenge to settled assumptions about his medium.
While he is capable of good craftsmanship, the value of his work is primarily expressive,
conceptual and poetic.
Clarke writes: STASHED elevates the ritual of smoking marijuana it brings it center stage by
celebrating this taboo. Laws are becoming more relaxed around the use of marijuana. So, you
have a choice to stash your weed secretively within the lid or simply have it opulently in the
lidded bowl. We have choices, what are yours?
David Clarke, Stashed, 2020
storage containers with fringed stands, pewter, silver-plate, steel
each approx. 7 x 7 x 13.75" / 18 x 18 x 35 cm
(Inv# 6519)
Clarke is one of the most prominent avant garde figures in metalwork in the UK. Through his
own studio work, he has mounted a vibrant challenge to settled assumptions about his medium.
While he is capable of good craftsmanship, the value of his work is primarily expressive,
conceptual and poetic.
Clarke writes: STASHED elevates the ritual of smoking marijuana it brings it center stage by
celebrating this taboo. Laws are becoming more relaxed around the use of marijuana. So, you
have a choice to stash your weed secretively within the lid or simply have it opulently in the
lidded bowl. We have choices, what are yours?
David Clarke, Stashed, 2020
storage containers with fringed stands, pewter, silver-plate, steel
each approx. 7 x 7 x 13.75" / 18 x 18 x 35 cm
(Inv# 6519)
Clarke is one of the most prominent avant garde figures in metalwork in the UK. Through his
own studio work, he has mounted a vibrant challenge to settled assumptions about his medium.
While he is capable of good craftsmanship, the value of his work is primarily expressive,
conceptual and poetic.
Clarke writes: STASHED elevates the ritual of smoking marijuana it brings it center stage by
celebrating this taboo. Laws are becoming more relaxed around the use of marijuana. So, you
have a choice to stash your weed secretively within the lid or simply have it opulently in the
lidded bowl. We have choices, what are yours?
David Clarke, Stashed, 2020
storage containers with fringed stands, pewter, silver-plate, steel
each approx. 7 x 7 x 13.75" / 18 x 18 x 35 cm
(Inv# 6519)
Clarke is one of the most prominent avant garde figures in metalwork in the UK. Through his
own studio work, he has mounted a vibrant challenge to settled assumptions about his medium.
While he is capable of good craftsmanship, the value of his work is primarily expressive,
conceptual and poetic.
Clarke writes: STASHED elevates the ritual of smoking marijuana it brings it center stage by
celebrating this taboo. Laws are becoming more relaxed around the use of marijuana. So, you
have a choice to stash your weed secretively within the lid or simply have it opulently in the
lidded bowl. We have choices, what are yours?
David Clarke, Stashed, 2020
storage containers with fringed stands, pewter, silver-plate, steel
each approx. 7 x 7 x 13.75" / 18 x 18 x 35 cm
(Inv# 6519)
Clarke is one of the most prominent avant garde figures in metalwork in the UK. Through his
own studio work, he has mounted a vibrant challenge to settled assumptions about his medium.
While he is capable of good craftsmanship, the value of his work is primarily expressive,
conceptual and poetic.
Clarke writes: STASHED elevates the ritual of smoking marijuana it brings it center stage by
celebrating this taboo. Laws are becoming more relaxed around the use of marijuana. So, you
have a choice to stash your weed secretively within the lid or simply have it opulently in the
lidded bowl. We have choices, what are yours?
David Clarke, Stashed, 2020
storage containers with fringed stands, pewter, silver-plate, steel
each approx. 7 x 7 x 13.75" / 18 x 18 x 35 cm
(Inv# 6519)
Clarke is one of the most prominent avant garde figures in metalwork in the UK. Through his
own studio work, he has mounted a vibrant challenge to settled assumptions about his medium.
While he is capable of good craftsmanship, the value of his work is primarily expressive,
conceptual and poetic.
Clarke writes: STASHED elevates the ritual of smoking marijuana it brings it center stage by
celebrating this taboo. Laws are becoming more relaxed around the use of marijuana. So, you
have a choice to stash your weed secretively within the lid or simply have it opulently in the
lidded bowl. We have choices, what are yours?
David Clarke, Stashed, 2020
storage containers with fringed stands, pewter, silver-plate, steel
each approx. 7 x 7 x 13.75" / 18 x 18 x 35 cm
(Inv# 6519)
Clarke is one of the most prominent avant garde figures in metalwork in the UK. Through his
own studio work, he has mounted a vibrant challenge to settled assumptions about his medium.
While he is capable of good craftsmanship, the value of his work is primarily expressive,
conceptual and poetic.
Clarke writes: STASHED elevates the ritual of smoking marijuana it brings it center stage by
celebrating this taboo. Laws are becoming more relaxed around the use of marijuana. So, you
have a choice to stash your weed secretively within the lid or simply have it opulently in the
lidded bowl. We have choices, what are yours?
David Clarke, Stashed, 2020
storage containers with fringed stands, pewter, silver-plate, steel
each approx. 7 x 7 x 13.75" / 18 x 18 x 35 cm
(Inv# 6519)
Clarke is one of the most prominent avant garde figures in metalwork in the UK. Through his
own studio work, he has mounted a vibrant challenge to settled assumptions about his medium.
While he is capable of good craftsmanship, the value of his work is primarily expressive,
conceptual and poetic.
Clarke writes: STASHED elevates the ritual of smoking marijuana it brings it center stage by
celebrating this taboo. Laws are becoming more relaxed around the use of marijuana. So, you
have a choice to stash your weed secretively within the lid or simply have it opulently in the
lidded bowl. We have choices, what are yours?
Laurene Leon Boyme, Nug Box, 2017
stash container, 3-D printed ceramic bowl with hand-forged and stamped silver lid
2.9 x 1.9 x 1" / 7.3 x 4.8 x 3.8 cm
(Inv# 6529)
Originally created for the exhibition “Polished Performances” at the Museum of the City of New York (2017), the Nug Box was a contemporary response to a snuff box from the 1800’s in the museum’s collection. The lid, hand-crafted by Boym in the NYC studio of Ted Muehling, bears silver marijuana leaves. Boym’s designs have been exhibited in countless international museums including MOMA NY and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, her designs have won numerous awards, including the coveted National Design Award in 2009.
Laurene Leon Boyme, Nug Box, 2017
stash container, 3-D printed ceramic bowl with hand-forged and stamped silver lid
2.9 x 1.9 x 1" / 7.3 x 4.8 x 3.8 cm
(Inv# 6529)
Originally created for the exhibition “Polished Performances” at the Museum of the City of New York (2017), the Nug Box was a contemporary response to a snuff box from the 1800’s in the museum’s collection. The lid, hand-crafted by Boym in the NYC studio of Ted Muehling, bears silver marijuana leaves. Boym’s designs have been exhibited in countless international museums including MOMA NY and the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, her designs have won numerous awards, including the coveted National Design Award in 2009.
David Bielander, Club, 2020
bong, cast bronze, glass chillum, 21.65 x 4.33" / 55 x 11 cm
Edition of 7
(Inv# 6526) photo: Dirk Eisel
“The useful object/tool for this very moment in time:
You can either smash something or it knocks you out
This is the return of the troglodytes, a tendency that appears to be emerging
It is also a comment on the Cultural Appropriation of artifacts
(but here I am the Neanderthal and the club comes perhaps from my distant
culture)”
Bielander, is the winner of numerous awards including the Herbert Hoffmann Prize in 2010, the
Francoise van den Bosch Award in 2012 and the Swiss Grand Prix de Design Award in 2017. In
2018, The Museum Of Arts & Design (NYC) acquired two of his works for its permanent
collection.
David Bielander, Club, 2020
bong, cast bronze, glass chillum, 21.65 x 4.33" / 55 x 11 cm
Edition of 7
(Inv# 6526)
“The useful object/tool for this very moment in time:
You can either smash something or it knocks you out
This is the return of the troglodytes, a tendency that appears to be emerging
It is also a comment on the Cultural Appropriation of artifacts
(but here I am the Neanderthal and the club comes perhaps from my distant
culture)”
Bielander, is the winner of numerous awards including the Herbert Hoffmann Prize in 2010, the
Francoise van den Bosch Award in 2012 and the Swiss Grand Prix de Design Award in 2017. In
2018, The Museum Of Arts & Design (NYC) acquired two of his works for its permanent
collection.
John Iversen, Pot Leaf (Combination), 2020, brooch, 18k gold, silver, 3.5 x 2.75 x .5" / 8.9 x 7 x 1.3 cm
John Iversen is a master at creating leaves in gold and silver (etc.) and these leaves find themselves in countless collections. Each piece is unique, sensitive and hyper-realistic with such details as decay, breakage or insect damage, seemingly taken directly from nature. For the Up In Smoke exhibition, Iversen gives us 3 extraordinary Pot Leaves, brooches / pins in 18k gold, one juxtaposed with darkened silver.
John Iversen was born in Germany where he was trained as a goldsmith. He later emigrated to the U.S.A., and has been a notable NY studio jeweler since the 1970's. Iversen is easily one of the most collectible American jewelers, with work found in such institutions as the Cooper-Hewitt and the Metropolitan Museum, LACMA, the MFA Boston and others.
John Iversen, Pot Leaf (Combination), 2020, brooch, 18k gold, silver
John Iversen is a master at creating leaves in gold and silver (etc.) and these leaves find themselves in countless collections. Each piece is unique, sensitive and hyper-realistic with such details as decay, breakage or insect damage, seemingly taken directly from nature. For the Up In Smoke exhibition, Iversen gives us 3 extraordinary Pot Leaves, brooches / pins in 18k gold, one juxtaposed with darkened silver.
John Iversen was born in Germany where he was trained as a goldsmith. He later emigrated to the U.S.A., and has been a notable NY studio jeweler since the 1970's. Iversen is easily one of the most collectible American jewelers, with work found in such institutions as the Cooper-Hewitt and the Metropolitan Museum, LACMA, the MFA Boston and others.
John Iversen, Pot Leaf (Combination), 2020, brooch, 18k gold, silver, 3.5 x 2.75 x .5" / 8.9 x 7 x 1.3 cm
John Iversen is a master at creating leaves in gold and silver (etc.) and these leaves find themselves in countless collections. Each piece is unique, sensitive and hyper-realistic with such details as decay, breakage or insect damage, seemingly taken directly from nature. For the Up In Smoke exhibition, Iversen gives us 3 extraordinary Pot Leaves, brooches / pins in 18k gold, one juxtaposed with darkened silver.
John Iversen was born in Germany where he was trained as a goldsmith. He later emigrated to the U.S.A., and has been a notable NY studio jeweler since the 1970's. Iversen is easily one of the most collectible American jewelers, with work found in such institutions as the Cooper-Hewitt and the Metropolitan Museum, LACMA, the MFA Boston and others.
Petra Zimmermann, Poison Rings with One-Hitter, 2020
Austrian artist Petra Zimmermann has created poison rings of sculpted acrylic with antique pocket watch cases to stow your personal supply. A one-hitter pipe will accompany each ring.
Born in Graz in 1975, Zimmermann studied sculpture at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. She has been the subject of a solo exhibition at MAK (Vienna) and her works can be found in collections such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, and the Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim (Germany) among others.
Petra Zimmermann, Poison Ring with One-Hitter, 2020
polymethyl methacrylate, pocket-watch case (gilded alpacca), silver, 1.95 x 1.75 x 2.2 " one-hitter 4.25" length
Austrian artist Petra Zimmermann has created poison rings of sculpted acrylic with antique pocket watch cases to stow your personal supply. A one-hitter pipe will accompany each ring.
Born in Graz in 1975, Zimmermann studied sculpture at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. She has been the subject of a solo exhibition at MAK (Vienna) and her works can be found in collections such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, and the Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim (Germany) among others.
Petra Zimmermann, Poison Ring with One-Hitter, 2020
polymethyl methacrylate, pocket-watch case (gilded alpacca), silver, 1.95 x 1.75 x 2.2 " one-hitter 4.25" length
Austrian artist Petra Zimmermann has created poison rings of sculpted acrylic with antique pocket watch cases to stow your personal supply. A one-hitter pipe will accompany each ring.
Born in Graz in 1975, Zimmermann studied sculpture at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. She has been the subject of a solo exhibition at MAK (Vienna) and her works can be found in collections such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, and the Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim (Germany) among others.
Petra Zimmermann, Poison Ring with One-Hitter, 2020
ring, polymethyl methacrylate, gilded alpaca box, mother of pearl, silver (onehitter: silver with gold plate), 2.125 x 2.125 x 2.25", one-hitter 4.9" long
(Inv# 6489)
Austrian artist Petra Zimmermann has created poison rings of sculpted acrylic with antique pocket watch cases to stow your personal supply. A one-hitter pipe will accompany each ring.
Born in Graz in 1975, Zimmermann studied sculpture at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. She has been the subject of a solo exhibition at MAK (Vienna) and her works can be found in collections such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, and the Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim (Germany) among others.
Petra Zimmermann, Poison Ring with One-Hitter, 2020
ring, polymethyl methacrylate, brass, amber, peridot, silver (one-hitter: silver with gold plate), 2.56 x 2.56 x 2.76", one-hitter 4.9" length
(Inv# 6486)
Austrian artist Petra Zimmermann has created poison rings of sculpted acrylic with antique pocket watch cases to stow your personal supply. A one-hitter pipe will accompany each ring.
Born in Graz in 1975, Zimmermann studied sculpture at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. She has been the subject of a solo exhibition at MAK (Vienna) and her works can be found in collections such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, and the Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim (Germany) among others.
Petra Zimmermann, Poison Ring with One-Hitter, 2020
polymethyl methacrylate, silver box, silver, 1.25 x 1.65 x 2.5", one-hitter 5.1" long
(Inv# 6488)
Austrian artist Petra Zimmermann has created poison rings of sculpted acrylic with antique pocket watch cases to stow your personal supply. A one-hitter pipe will accompany each ring.
Born in Graz in 1975, Zimmermann studied sculpture at the Vienna University of Applied Arts. She has been the subject of a solo exhibition at MAK (Vienna) and her works can be found in collections such as the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, The Dallas Museum of Art, and the Jewelry Museum of Pforzheim (Germany) among others.
Jiro Kamata, Holon Pipe, 2020, patinated silver, camera lenses- with PVD, mirror, 24K and rose gold coatings
15.75 x 9.5 x 9" / 40 x 24 x 23 cm
(Inv# 6510)
The Holon Pipe is made of blackened silver with 16 camera lenses orbiting the central pipe container, facing in different directions.
The undersides of the lenses are coated in gold, mirror and several colors, reflecting the user and the surroundings.
Camera lens can capture the real world but the lenses of this pipe reflect ands distort, giving a glimpse into a colorful, dreamy world.
The effect of smoking marijuana gives the understanding of the many directions of reality, helping to reinterpret myself.
This work is representational of both sides of our real world.
Jiro Kamata
Jiro Kamata, Holon Pipe, 2020, patinated silver, camera lenses- with PVD, mirror, 24K and rose gold coatings
15.75 x 9.5 x 9" / 40 x 24 x 23 cm
(Inv# 6510)
The Holon Pipe is made of blackened silver with 16 camera lenses orbiting the central pipe container, facing in different directions.
The undersides of the lenses are coated in gold, mirror and several colors, reflecting the user and the surroundings.
Camera lens can capture the real world but the lenses of this pipe reflect ands distort, giving a glimpse into a colorful, dreamy world.
The effect of smoking marijuana gives the understanding of the many directions of reality, helping to reinterpret myself.
This work is representational of both sides of our real world.
Jiro Kamata
Jiro Kamata, Holon Pipe, 2020, patinated silver, camera lenses- with PVD, mirror, 24K and rose gold coatings
15.75 x 9.5 x 9" / 40 x 24 x 23 cm
(Inv# 6510)
The Holon Pipe is made of blackened silver with 16 camera lenses orbiting the central pipe container, facing in different directions.
The undersides of the lenses are coated in gold, mirror and several colors, reflecting the user and the surroundings.
Camera lens can capture the real world but the lenses of this pipe reflect ands distort, giving a glimpse into a colorful, dreamy world.
The effect of smoking marijuana gives the understanding of the many directions of reality, helping to reinterpret myself.
This work is representational of both sides of our real world.
Jiro Kamata
Anders Ljungberg, Bubble Dream, 2020
storage container with smoking implements, silver, chrome-plated brass (lids)
9.06 x 7.48 x 5.3"/ 23 x 19 x 13.5 cm
For the Up In Smoke exhibition, Swedish silversmith Anders Ljungberg has created two functional artworks including Bubble Dream, an exquisitely hand-crafted multi-element modular sculpture that dissassembles into a vessel for marijuana, pipe, a mobile container + small one-hitter pipe and ash tray. The one-hitter pipe van also be fitted as extra filter in the larger pipe.
"Humankind has always searched for the magic in life. In times marked by rationalism, spiritualism and magic have become even more desired. Those concepts have , as so many other concepts and ideas in the contemporary, been kidnapped by a consumerist culture, in which drugs can sometimes offer a way to the magic and the spiritual but also to the highly desired moment of rest. Those mental states can easily be reached and consumed as anything else in the contemporary consumerist culture.
In my own youth, the use of marijuana was often associated with rituals of masculinity which made me feel both uncomfortable and excluded since I didn't find any interest of being a part of it and honestly didn't know how to do it.
In bubble dream, something is going on that is both enticing and threatening in its fermenting high glossiness. Both objects consist of functional elements that in the handling of them create structures for a ritual, but which together also create a sculptural whole."
Ljungberg lives and maintains a studio outside of Stockholm, he also holds the position of Professor at Kostfack, the University College of Art, Craft and Design, Stockholm, Sweden.
Anders Ljungberg, Bubble Dream, 2020
storage container with smoking implements, silver, chrome-plated brass (lids)
9.06 x 7.48 x 5.3"/ 23 x 19 x 13.5 cm
For the Up In Smoke exhibition, Swedish silversmith Anders Ljungberg has created two functional artworks including Bubble Dream, an exquisitely hand-crafted multi-element modular sculpture that dissassembles into a vessel for marijuana, pipe, a mobile container + small one-hitter pipe and ash tray. The one-hitter pipe van also be fitted as extra filter in the larger pipe.
"Humankind has always searched for the magic in life. In times marked by rationalism, spiritualism and magic have become even more desired. Those concepts have , as so many other concepts and ideas in the contemporary, been kidnapped by a consumerist culture, in which drugs can sometimes offer a way to the magic and the spiritual but also to the highly desired moment of rest. Those mental states can easily be reached and consumed as anything else in the contemporary consumerist culture.
In my own youth, the use of marijuana was often associated with rituals of masculinity which made me feel both uncomfortable and excluded since I didn't find any interest of being a part of it and honestly didn't know how to do it.
In Bubble Dream, something is going on that is both enticing and threatening in its fermenting high glossiness. Both objects consist of functional elements that in the handling of them create structures for a ritual, but which together also create a sculptural whole."
Ljungberg lives and maintains a studio outside of Stockholm, he also holds the position of Professor at Kostfack, the University College of Art, Craft and Design, Stockholm, Sweden.
Anders Ljungberg, Portal, 2020, vessel for marijuana + silver smoking pipe,
silver, tin-plated copper, 2.95 x 10.25 x 6.9" / 7.5 x 26 x 17.5 cm
For the Up In Smoke exhibition, Swedish silversmith Anders Ljungberg has created two functional artworks including Portal, an exquisitely hand-crafted sculpture that brings to mind Brutalist architecture with a small dose of Surrealism. The central element detaches to be used for storage, while a small pipe of silver appears as bubbles leaking from a fissure in the structure.
"Humankind has always searched for the magic in life. In times marked by rationalism, spiritualism and magic have become even more desired. Those concepts have , as so many other concepts and ideas in the contemporary, been kidnapped by a consumerist culture, in which drugs can sometimes offer a way to the magic and the spiritual but also to the highly desired moment of rest. Those mental states can easily be reached and consumed as anything else in the contemporary consumerist culture.
In my own youth, the use of marijuana was often associated with rituals of masculinity which made me feel both uncomfortable and excluded since I didn't find any interest of being a part of it and honestly didn't know how to do it.
In the work portal, we see signs of this masculinity ritual - as a monument over something both desirable and limiting "
Ljungberg lives and maintains a studio outside of Stockholm, he also holds the position of Professor at Kostfack, the University College of Art, Craft and Design, Stockholm, Sweden.
Kristina Lopez Adduci interviews Ornamentum director Stefan Friedemann about the exhibition 'Up In Smoke: Contemporary Studio Artists From The Jewelry, Silversmithing and Design Worlds Take On Marijuana' at Design / Miami 2020.
