You carry Mother Earth within you.
-thich naht hanh
I have been on a journey of unlearning for several years now.
This trek has taken me inward, on a search for the ancient language that connects me to the wind, the ocean, a tortoise and birds, the stars, humanity. This strange interior pilgrimage included the shedding of layers of learned fear, replaced by the embrace of inter-being, the extraordinary interconnectedness of all things in this universe of marvels and oddities, astonishments and magnificence.
I weave this ethos through my jewelry and object art using a magpie approach, composing imagery and text drawn from the historical record. My intuitively designed and layered narratives in glass and metal extend a helping hand, an invitation to see the world with curious eyes, the eyes of a child,
beckoning you to become a magician for a moment, an alchemist in reverie, a shaman dreaming a new world.
It is a very sacred game we are playing here on earth. Each of my pieces can function as a touchstone, a cairn, a talisman, for soul retrieval, for awakening, for the journey back to remembering. I think of each as a miniature navigational atlas to the unseen, the unheard, the unknown: the world behind this world.
News
New Earrings: 500 Contemporary Jewellery Designs
by Nicolas Estrada
Hoaki Books
available August/September 2024
Metalwerx Virtual Spring Symposium
Waltham, MA
April 1–5, 2024
Each year, the Symposium features 10 talented emerging and established artists, with two presentations each day of the event. During their sessions, presenters will share their jewelry and metalsmithing knowledge and inspiration, demonstrate one or more of their signature techniques, and give us a peek inside around their studios or at their body of work.
For more information:
https://metalwerx.com/springsymposium
Majestic, Impressive & Opulent: Jewelry Inspired by India
Mobilia Gallery
348 Huron Ave
Cambridge, MA
617-876-2109
December 23, 2023 – February 24, 2024
Amplify
Steuben Gallery Pratt Institute
200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY.
November 13th-19th
Part of New York City Jewelry Week
Opening reception on Monday, Nov.13 at 6:30PM - 8:30PM
Our evolving lives are full of changes that can be sudden and challenging. They knock us off balance and can be overwhelming. We adorn ourselves with talismans to provide us with strength, comfort and protection. Throughout history, people have used a variety of symbols or objects to harness a specific power or support. A talisman may manifest desires of fertility, love, luck, prosperity, and/or courage. What objects do you hold close for strength? What symbols do you find bring you luck? In this exhibition Allegheny Metals Collective members will create their own talismanic adornments of strength, solace, desire or protection.
New York City Jewelry Week
Discover Platform
November 13-19 2023
The Reverent Ring
Mobilia Gallery
348 Huron Ave
Cambridge, MA
617-876-2109
Nov 9- Dec 31, 2023
See the online catalogue here
Paradox Found: Treasures by Kim Nogueira
Mobilia Gallery
348 Huron Ave
Cambridge, MA
617-876-2109
June 17- July 29, 2023
Alkimiya Magazine
May 25 2023
“Of the earth mirrors: la liberazione interiore e l’ode all’infanzia dei gioielli di Kim Nogueira”
Old Meets New and New Narratives
Mobilia Gallery
348 Huron Ave
Cambridge, MA
617-876-2109
Throughout history jewelry has been worn as a universal piece of adornment, used as a powerful protection from the dangers of life or as a mark of status or rank. Underneath every piece of jewelry is a story, a thoughtful commentary, a personal history, symbolic or cultural.
Artists were invited to be storytellers, sharing the inspirational ideas and thought behind their exuberant jewelry, reflecting upon their materials and techniques used to create a narrative with their works of art.
Environ
NYC Jewelry Week’s Headquarters in Industry City
November 17-20
An Allegheny Metals Collective Exhibition
”Shapes appear in our lives everywhere we look. They frame our reality into a three-dimensional space and influence us more than we realize. A circle is one of these shapes that can be found in all aspects of our day to day. The ring you wear to signify a relationship, the hoops that dangle from your ears or the face of a watch that reminds you of the time. A circle represents evolution as a process of transformation, from birth to death, beginning to ending. It is symbolic of vitality, wholeness, unity, completion and perfection. There is a vast array of possibilities of how circles will show up in our lives and depending on where you sit in your cycle of growth, a circle can mean something different for you at different phases of your life.
Environ is an exhibition that asks artists to respond to the circle and interpret how the circle holds their energy, the meaning it holds within their life cycle and how they use it to adorn the body.”
Underfire 4
Enamel Guild North East
online
This annual exhibition showcases works in a broad range of styles to highlight the various approaches to this demanding, ancient medium.
Verdant Bodies
Oct 28-Nov 18 2022
Armory Art Center
West Palm Beach, FL
This exhibition will offer insight as to how makers of the art jewelry and metalsmithing field interpret their environments. Considerations of environment include, but are not limited to, physical “natural” or curated spaces, sociopolitical environments, and spaces within which various relationships occur. The intent of Verdant Bodies is to raise topics such as ecology, evolution, species relationships, botanical, and cultural implications. This in-person exhibition was juried by contemporary jewelry artist, Diane Falkenhagen.
Heirlooms of the Future
Sept 24-Oct22 2022
Mobilia Gallery
348 Huron Ave
Cambridge, MA
617-876-2109
From the catalogue:
Mobilia Gallery presents Heirlooms of the Future, a group exhibition of over 20 studio artists using ancient techniques as well as contemporary innovations to create exquisite works of art—superb jewelry pieces, remarkable vessels, and sculptural objects worthy of treasuring for generations.
see the catalogue here:
Todo lo que Brilla no es Oro: The Story of Stones
July 2022
Mobilia Gallery
348 Huron Ave
Cambridge, MA
617-876-2109
from the exhibition catalogue:
”Whether the stone once belonged to an eminent royal or is shrouded in intrigue, a stone with history and legends, has an aura all its own.”
Throughout ancient history, stones and gemstones were put to use around the world, worn as objects of power, adornment and beauty, thought to give protection against evil, danger or disease.
We asked 28 artists to create their own history and narrative with their version of a special stone or stones, using their innovative techniques and materials to create an object of adornment. The result was this exhibition of artists presenting their unique sensibilities, each with a different interpretation of the meaning of a stone.
Messages and Meanings
touring exhibition of brooches
April 2022-June 2023
United Kingdom
Portable Works of Art: Earrings
March-April 2022
Mobilia Gallery
348 Huron Ave
Cambridge, MA
617-876-2109
Earrings have been worn throughout the world since the Bronze Age. Europe’s oldest mummy, Otzi the Iceman, was discovered with a borehole in his earlobe.
Throughout history earrings were worn for protection, to ward off evil spirits, provide strength and promote good health. Pierced earrings were thought to help strengthen weak eyes, especially effective if set with emeralds.
Gold earrings cured headaches, wearing one gold and one silver earring was even more effective. Pirates donned a gold hoop in one ear when surviving a shipwreck. The ancient Egyptians and Romans wore earrings to signify social status.
Mobilia Gallery’s invitational exhibition presents an array of earrings featuring 38 artists from eight different countries including Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Great Britain, Norway and the United States.
“The ear is the venue to the heart.”- Volaire
Art Aurea
Winter 2021
”Kim Nogueira: Almost Like in Paradise”
portrait and interview; p 20-31
Alchemy: The Power and Magic of Jewelry
Mobilia Gallery
348 Huron Ave
Cambridge, MA
617-876-2109
For many, the transformative power of art and the artists process are forms of magic.
Since the Middle Ages, Alchemy has been revered as the magical process of taking something unassuming and transforming it into something extraordinary, sometimes in a way that cannot be explained. Alchemy can also be defined as the process of transmuting a common substance of little value, into a substance of great value — a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination. Like an alchemist, an artist takes ordinary materials and turns them into incredible, beautiful art.
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art; benefit gala and auction; The Rachofsky House; Dallas, TX; Oct 23
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art is an annual contemporary art auction held in the Richard Meier-designed Rachofsky House in Dallas, benefiting two organizations—the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.
Drawing prominent artists, art collectors and philanthropists from around the world, TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art has evolved into a week full of social events aimed at recognizing the progress of amfAR and engaging the arts community in Dallas. An eagerly anticipated event that quickly sells out, the benefit features a seated dinner for 450 guests with both a live and silent auction of major works of contemporary art and unique luxury items. During the weekend, amfAR presents its Award of Excellence for Artistic Contributions to the Fight Against AIDS to the honoree artist at an intimate luncheon at The Warehouse.
View auction calalogue here.
Upended Lives: Jewelry in the Age of Covid; Mobilia Gallery; Cambridge, MA; Sept 11-Oct 30
also showing in the September issue of Adornment Magazine
“During challenging times, artists occupy a unique position in society because of their exceptional ability to unearth, absorb, and illuminate what lies hidden or inchoate. It is their creative efforts that provide us with the means to understand, comfort, challenge, and seek solutions in troubling times.” -- Elyse Karlin and Yvonne Markowitz, ASJRA.
Yvonne Markowitz and Elyse Karlin of ASJRA have collaborated with Libby and Jo Anne Cooper of Mobilia Gallery to invite 44 international studio jewelry artists to create a special piece or limited series of jewelry reflecting on their experiences during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The exhibition will run September 11th - October 30th, 2021 at Mobilia Gallery, 348 Huron Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138 as well as online at https://www.mobilia-gallery.com. An entire issue of Adornment Magazine will be dedicated to the exhibition to be published online in mid-September.
Please email mobiliagallery@gmail.com to request a virtual copy of the Adornment Magazine featuring this exhibit, compliments of ASJRA and Mobilia Gallery.
"WE ARE SNAG: Anthology" -- the seventh member exhibition in the WE ARE SNAG series -- is now open. This is a virtual catalog of some of the Society of North American Goldsmiths’ membership in 2021, created as a visual resource.
The Jewelry Journey Podcast: From Antique to Art with host Sharon Berman; episode 117
“Although Kimberly Nogueira’s path to jewelry was unique, it wasn’t entirely unexpected. As a strong believer in symbols and signs, Kimberly looks back on her life and sees that her work as a narrative art jeweler and automaton maker was, in many ways, predestined. That same belief in intuition, symbols, and our interconnectedness is what influences her work today. She joined the Jewelry Journey Podcast to talk about what led her to become a jewelry maker, why she is inspired by ancient symbols, and why jewelry is more than just adornment for her.”
It’s an honor to share my interview with Sharon Berman, passionate afficionado of all things jewelry, past, present and future. Listen or read the transcript here.
Blue: An Uncertain Spring; Gallery Baum; Seoul, South Korea
May 21-30, 2021, 10am-7pm
This exhibition commemorates the Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Jewelry, which has been sponsored by Gallery Baum for the past 10 years. Starting with the first exhibition in 2011, 55 jewelry artists of various nationalities have been attending in a total of 9 exhibitions so far.
Over the past year, people all over the world have experienced very strange and uncertain times, and they are still in chaos even now even though a new year has begun. The uncertainty threatens us with depression and torpor. What we need at this moment is comfort. Especially, the comfort conveyed by art which resonates deeply, with a message of hope from jewelry artists in difficult moments, effectively conveyed here in the common color code of blue, with so many layers of meaning.
PRIMAVERA; Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge MA
April/May 2021
by appointment and online
This has been a year unlike any other that we can remember, hibernating in our spaces due to the worldwide pandemic. We look forward to celebrating the wonders and marvels of Spring when the cold and decay of winter is transformed by the power and beauty of spring.
With the warmth of spring, shoots poke out and green buds appear eventually bursting into a magnificent array of exploding blossoms along with visions of a good harvest.
Primavera along with Flora and Fauna have been celebrated throughout history with festivals, goddesses and myths from around the world symbolizing renewal and rebirth. We felt that jewelers and jewelry aficionados alike would love a beautiful touch of spring to lift their spirits.
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Metalsmith magazine
Vol. 40 No. 4
“Kim Nogueira: Crafting Dreamscapes” by Andrea DiNoto
See the issue here
TALISMAN & AMULETS: PROTECTIVE JEWELRY IN THE AGE OF COVID; Dec 15, 2020-Jan 31, 2021
Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA; by appointment and online
Throughout history, jewelry has been worn as protection and to heal and enhance personal power. We invited artists to create their own interpretation of a protective jewel that will guard the wearer from danger, diseases and hardship or serve as a good luck token.
Underfire 3; opens Oct 24, 2020
international online exhibition
jurors: Ruth Ball, Mi-Sook Hur, and Sienna Patti
“It is often the desire for contemporary work to reflect contemporary matters, to break from historical modalities and make statements on critical issues. In this aim, color today can seem less significant but ultimately more nuanced. The message of a work is carried instead by poignancy and technique. Heavy subjects such as loss, relationships, politics, sit equally alongside weighty worries for conservation, humanity and planet.”
Ruth Ball, juror
2018 Jewelry and Metals Survey; volume 3; published by the Society of North American Goldsmiths.
The Jewelry and Metals Survey (JAMS) is the Society of North American Goldsmith's annual juried publication of jewelry and metals in contemporary art, architecture, craft, and design created in the previous year by emerging and established artists, as well as students. This soft cover book highlights over 181 objects made by 136 artists from 13 different countries.
2019 JAMS jurors: Warren Holzman, a Philadelphia based artist working in forged and fabricated metals and the owner of Holzman Iron Studio LTD. Bryna Pomp, who began her career studying art history and French at Wheaton College. In 2011, Pomp became the curator of LOOT, the annual exhibition and sale of studio and art jewelry at the Museum of Arts and Design. Lena Vigna, currently the Curator of Exhibitions at the Racine Art Museum in Racine, Wisconsin, where she curates and oversees the production and implementation of 10-15 exhibitions per year and heads the department.
Available to order here
2018 Jewelry and Metals Survey; volume 2; published by the Society of North American Goldsmiths.
Highlighting 2018’s best work in jewelry and metal. Jurors were: Hoss Haley, blacksmith and sculptor; Todd Reed, founder and designer of Todd Reed, Inc; and Jen Scanlan, Exhibitions and Curatorial Director at Oklahoma Contemporary.
JAMS is an annual survey of jewelry and metals in contemporary art, architecture, craft, and design by student, emerging, and established artists. SNAG is excited to offer the 2018 publication that highlights 130 artists from 8 countries, representing the breadth and depth that exists in the field of jewelry and metals.
Each juror has written a brief essay relating to what they observed as they juried their selections and chose another 28-35 additional objects they each felt were reflective of the high quality of work being shown in the field today.
This beautifully designed book is essential for anyone who is interested in contemporary jewelry and metal work being made today.
The Art of Fine Enameling; Karen Cohen, Stackpole Books, MD
The most comprehensive book of enameling and enameling techniques has been completely revised for this essential new reference manual. Practically anything made from enamel-friendly metal can be enameled, from vases to jewelry to buttons to metal mesh and solid forms. In the first edition, published in 2002, Cohen explored this world as it was then, but so much knowledge has been gained in the last 17 years that it was definitely time for an update.
What a superb book…the most important book on enameling for at least 50 years. This is the Oppi Untracht of enameling books. A beautiful, thorough, exquisite job of it. Thank you for all you have contributed to the culture by doing this.
--Charles Lewton-Brain
Several of my mechanical pieces are included in this second edition of Karen’s enameling reference book.
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