Reflections on Attai Chen at NYC Jewelry Week 2024

Gallery Loupe presents a posthumous exhibition and book launch for Attai Chen: All The World’s A Stage, showcasing Chen’s life and work. On Monday night, join the panel discussion moderated by Jennifer Altmann, featuring Einat Leader, Carina Shoshtary, Naama Levit, and Noël Guyomarc'h, followed by an recorded commentary from Dr. Glenn Adamson.

Dr. Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian based in New York and London. He was Director of the Museum of Arts and Design and Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

His publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007); The Craft Reader (2010); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011, with Jane Pavitt); The Invention of Craft (2013); Art in the Making (2016, with Julia Bryan-Wilson); Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects (2018); Objects: USA 2020; and Craft: An American History (2021). His next book, A Century of Tomorrows, will be published by Bloomsbury in December 2024.

He is Artistic Director for Design Doha, a new biennial for Qatar (forthcoming in 2024); curator at large for the Vitra Design Museum; and editor of Material and editor of Material Intelligence, a quarterly online journal published by the Chipstone Foundation.

Jennifer Altmann is a journalist who writes about jewelry. Her work has appeared in The New York Times’ Style section, The Washington Post, the Associated Press and many other outlets. Her new series for Art Jewelry Forum, “Inside the Jewelry Box,” offers a peek into the jewelry collections of artists, gallery owners, curators and collectors.

Noël Guyomarc'h, a Québécois gallerist, has been active in the field of art jewelry for almost 30 years, opening his eponymous gallery in 1996. He is an evaluator for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and was president of the board of the École de Joaillerie de Montréal (2004-2011).

Einat Leader is an Israeli jeweler, curator and researcher in the field of jewelry and metalwork, and the theory and practice of design and crafts. She is an associate professor at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. From 2005 -13 she was head of the jewelry and fashion department. In her works, she deals with the possibility of creating a platform for critical discourse between the wearer/user and hers/his surroundings, through raising issues concerning society and culture; traditions and rituals; gender, and identity.

Naama Levit is a jewelry artist, a material maker and an educator. Born in Jerusalem, she received her BFA with honors from the department of jewelry and fashion at Bezalel Academy Of Art in Jerusalem, (2013), and her M.F.A in Metals from Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI (2020). Naama currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Carina Shoshtary trained as a goldsmith in Neugablonz, Germany, from 2001 to 2004 and studied art jewelry under Professor Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich from 2006 to 2012, graduating in 2012 as a “Meisterschüler” (master student). In 2012 she was also awarded the Bavarian State Prize for Emerging Designers and the Upper Bavarian Prize for Applied Arts. Shoshtary’s work has been exhibited internationally.

Each November, NYC Jewelry Week proudly presents ‘The Week,’ a 7-day celebration dedicated to the art of jewelry. This annual event invites a global audience to explore the world of jewelry through a dynamic mix of in-person and virtual experiences, spanning New York City and beyond.

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