Amelia Toelke
Amelia Toelke has both jewelry and visual art on display at Specific Gravity; a combination of sculpture, gouache painting, and collage, Toelke’s artistic practice challenges traditional disciplinary boundaries. Charms and chains define Toelke’s inventive, and often nostalgic, jewelry collections. In her works on paper, Toelke’s metalsmithing background shines in the form of 24K gold leaf.
AUR Jewelry
Inspired by the play of light and color, Aur Jewelry’s glass creations immediately catch the eye. The jewelry, designed and made by Bianca Abreu, is crafted of color-shifting glass sensitive to fluorescent light. By way of lamp working, Abreu shapes each glass piece over a 2000-degree flame where all parts are then hand-cut, cold-worked and set into pieces that highlight their intense optic qualities.
Brian Weissman
Brian Weissman is a co-founder of Specific Gravity and Brooklyn Metal Works, a collaborative metalsmithing studio, exhibition space, and concept lab.
As an artist, Brian enjoys working with traditional metalsmithed objects to examine how their socially, politically and culturally inherited meanings and values can be distorted through a constantly changing world. Through these explorations he tries to find the humor and beauty in the objects he creates.
Brice Garrett
Brice Garett’s expansive jewelry practice takes many forms. Centering carefully-selected colorful gemstones, each design evolves organically in response to the distinct qualities of the individual stones. Garrett employs lost wax casting, fabrication, and digital design techniques to create his eclectic, often playful works.
Cyrille Despointes
Cyrille Despointes’ stunning sculptural jewelry designs are imbued with romance. Diamonds and colorful gemstones shine in Despointes’ finely-crafted textured settings featuring hearts and floral motifs. These statement pieces are sure to be the next centerpiece of your collection.
Daniell Hudson
Daniell Hudson creates jewelry and objects that explore the relationship between personal history, material culture, and the passage of time. Using ethically sourced materials and traditional techniques, her work displays a deep respect for storytelling, sustainability, and the beauty of everyday forms.
dan-yell
Danyell Rascoe's (dan-yell) work highlights their intrigue for gemstones that bring out the beauty in elaborate demi-fine work. Their collection is a nod to traditional and contemporary Indian jewelry designs, and they have since been inspired by this technique since a spontaneous business trip to the country. dan-yell’s pieces showcase their ornate talent to capture the perfect composition between subtle hues and dynamic gems.
Edgar Mosa
Chainmaking, Edgar Mosa notes, is at the center of his extensive practice as a jeweler and artist. Primarily using sterling silver, Mosa handcrafts innovative chains of uniquely-shaped links. Designs composed of hearts, stars, knots, spikes, and bag tags, tinged with the artist’s signature humor, make Mosa’s creations instantly recognizable.
Erin S. Daily
Erin S. Daily is a co-founder of Specific Gravity and Brooklyn Metal Works, a collaborative metalsmithing studio, exhibition space, and concept lab.
As an artist, Erin’s work is inspired by her curiosity about our material and cultural connections to the made world. At the center of this approach is her love of metal, her fascination with nature and geology, and a consuming interest in the human body and its varied relationships to objects. From the physical act of making, to the physical act of wearing and interacting, she finds jewelry and metalsmithing an engaging art form. Erin’s artistic investigations fuel her intense desire to know and understand the world through objects.
Eve Singer
Heavily textured bronze is the basis for Eve Singer’s jewelry and object creations. Singer, a practicing textile designer, sees the world through the lens of pattern – a quality that clearly translates into her work at Specific Gravity. The art and architecture around NYC is a constant source of inspiration as Singer interprets the structures and surfaces of the city with her modern statement pieces.
Futaba Hayashi
Daggers, evil eyes, studs, and locks: artist Futaba Hayashi is drawn to timeless symbols imbued with a punk spirit. Engraving and colorful gemstones add to the power of each piece. Merging her love for graphic design with the intimacy of jewelry, Hayashi creates rebellious yet subtle pieces that become an everyday amulet for the wearer.
Gotham Atelier
Gotham Atelier’s distinctive jewelry, created by E. Andrea Shiman, is deeply inspired by the geometry of mid-20th century modernist design. Structural settings of gold and silver frame the natural beauty of unusual colored gemstones, each carefully selected by the artist and often brought together in unexpected ways.
Jinbi Design
Jinbi Park (Jinbi Design) draws from their personal experiences when scuba diving to create coral-like structures in their jewelry. As a self proclaimed adventurer, Jinbi finds inspiration within the realms of the unknown, redefining the natural elegance of the ocean’s beauty. In honoring their ode to nature, Jinbi makes a promise to only utilize recycled materials and sustainable stones throughout their thoughtful collection.
Judith Rachel Jewelry
The mystical designs by Judith Rachel Jewelry, designed and made by Judith Hoetker, draw from an eclectic and unexpected array of inspirations: the clawed hook of a sparrow foot, a biting snake, an evil bunny. Merging her impeccable metalsmithing skills with naturalist motifs and carefully-selected colored gemstones, Hoetker’s jewelry brings a sense of magic to the everyday.
Kathleen Andersen
Initially drawn to glass for its color, flexibility, and physicality, artist Kathleen Andersen has stuck with it for the material’s seemingly endless range of possibilities. Through a mix of traditional glassblowing and gem-cutting techniques, Andersen created the “Jewel” collection on view at Specific Gravity. The “jewels” are first blown and then cold-worked to cut and polish the individual facets. Andersen’s resulting glass vessels share the rich color of the gemstones for which they’re named.
Kristine Cabanban
Kristine Cabanban’s attention to detail is on full display in the artist’s carefully-crafted gold and silver jewelry. With minimal silhouettes that mirror the body, Cabanban’s modernist creations are as comfortable to wear as they are beautiful. Ancient techniques, such as granulation, where tiny balls of fine silver or high karat gold are attached to a backsheet by fusing (without using solder), feature in Cabanban’s timeless jewelry.
Luz Arias
Known for their modernized usage of an atypical material, glass, Luz Arias brings bold colors and bright perspectives to their fun jewelry collection. Luz’s relationship to their work is explored through refreshed designs and vibrant combinations, never steering clear from challenging themselves to rethink contemporary styles into an enchanting collision of palettes. Originally trained as a goldsmith, Luz continues to create conversations surrounding their designs throughout the world.
Matia Lia Baroni
Born into a creative family of artists in a small town in Tuscany, Italy, Matia Lia Baroni's eyes and soul were shaped between marble sculpting studios and bronze foundries, where her fascination for metalwork and sculpture first arose. Following many years of fervent traveling around the world, and many homes, she arrived in New York City where she now resides and creates all her pieces in her studio in Brooklyn. Lia officially launched her brand in 2019, but has always been a compulsive creator of wearable sculptures and jewelry.
Oblik Atelier
Oblik Atelier, designed and made by Mia Hebib, creates jewelry defined by its twists and turns. Hebib’s transformations of metal, an inherently rigid and hard material, into fluid and graceful sculptural jewelry and objects makes Oblik Atelier immediately recognizable. Hebib works in sterling silver, gold-plated brass, and custom in gold.
Octave Jewelry
Octave Jewelry, created and produced by Ope Omojola, is inspired by the balance between sharp geometry and soft organic form. These kinetic pieces are dually inspired by the infinite malleability of metal and the permanence of stone. But most of all, this jewelry is made to be worn; each piece sparkles and sways with the wearer, highlighting the beauty within.
Sergey Jivetin
Sergey Jiventin’s expertise ranges from literal jewelry works to profound and interesting interactive objects. Through their innate craftsmanship, their work has continued to engage reviewers and spark conversations that span outside of the everyday jewelry connoisseur. His work is featured in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Art and Design, Dallas Museum of Art, Mint Museum, and numerous private collections.
Petra Class
Petra Class Studio creates jewelry defined by the age-old techniques of gold smithing and hand forging. Featuring richly-hued rough and polished gemstones and crafted in 22K and 18K yellow gold with a delicate brushed finish, Class’s designs pay a modern homage to the adornments of antiquity.
Samuel Guillén
Samuel Guillen seeks to transform the structures of the city found all around us, often a mixture of rough and sleek technical elements, into a visual vocabulary for his designs. Modernity, as understood through architecture and industrial design, is the basis of Guillen’s discerning style. Crafted of sterling silver and vitreous enameled copper, Guillen employs hollow construction and cold connection techniques in creating his jewelry collections.
Sol Proaño
Sol Proaño is a Chilean-American designer and metalsmith based in Queens, NY. Her Prisma collection features objects for the home that give a calm and soothing effect. These pieces combine sculptural shapes in metal with crystals that create beautiful rainbows, little glimpses of magic that are both comforting and fun at the same time.
Suna Bonometti
Suna Bonometti is an Italian jeweler based in New York. Drawing inspiration from geometric forms, modernism, and traditional craft, each piece is designed to catch your attention in pleasantly surprising ways–all the while remaining simple and bold in appearance.
Suzanne Sullivan
Ceramic artist Suzanne Sullivan hand builds porcelain objects for the hand and home. Elaborately hand painted patterns are visually rich and complement the tactile forms they lay across. Each piece is unique and one of a kind.
Tomi Yum
Skulls and snakes are consistent motifs within Tomi Yum’s jewelry, as the artist blends a romantic goth aesthetic into her sculptural designs. The artist’s work also displays a fascination with organic textures, from snake skin to the undulating surface of baroque pearls, which are featured in Yum’s collection of dainty and dramatic jewelry.
Yotburd
Funky. Exciting. Innovative and always in true Yotburd sequence. Zachery Lechtenberg's hand-drawn clay work always captures a youthful essence that is imperative to any miscellany collection. A quirky arrangement of skulls, flowers, cartoons and expressions, Yotburd continues to execute pieces that speak to the hyper-surrealist version of ourselves.
