In celebration of Mahnaz Collection’s Tenth Anniversary and NYC Jewelry Week we proudly invite you to view MODERNIST JEWELRY ICONS FROM HELSINKI TO HOPI, 1950-1980, An Exhibition of Transformative Modernist Jewelry Designs in Europe and the Americas, Post -WWII.
Mahnaz Collection presented the exhibition ‘Materials in Play,’ at our Madison Avenue gallery, which opened April 24, 2023, and ended on May 5, 2023. The jewelry on view focused on the specific ways in which a material is explored, by an international group of contemporary jewelry artists and several inspired jewelers of an earlier era. The jewelry artists explored their chosen materials with specific conceptual and metallurgical approaches to ideas, design and process. Each artist shown works intensively with their material of choice: hardstones, yellow gold, silver, steel, zirconium, titanium, and glass. Their work conversed with vintage jewels from Mahnaz Collection, selected by the artists as speaking to their work.
Christopher Thompson Royds (London, England), Pat Pruitt (Laguna Pueblo, US), Amy Lemaire (New York, US), Carmen Tapia (Taxco, Mexico), and Julia Obermaier (Kempten, Germany) were the stellar contemporary jewelry artists, each at different stages of their careers, who showed their work.
Mahnaz Collection’s third exhibition in its series on modern masters of jewelry design is titled Material Beauty: Modern Hopi, Navajo, and Pueblo Artist Jewelers. Featuring over 175 pieces, the exhibition offers a perspective on influential modernist directions taken by southwestern Hopi, Navajo and Pueblo silver and goldsmiths since the 1960s. Material Beauty centers around the dynamic workshops of select master jewelers showcasing the most original and influential artists, led foremost by renaissance Hopi artist Charles Loloma and Bauhaus influenced Richard Chavez.
Mahnaz Collection opened its second exhibition London Originals: The Jeweler’s Art in Radical Times on April 11, 2018. Featuring over 150 jewels from the most original independent London jewelers working in the . 1960s and ‘70s the exhibition was hosted by Wright, 980 Madison Avenue in New York City.
