Jewelry as a La November 15th Gallery Loupe is p brings together s expand the field o material experimentation, conceptual depth, and a deep awareness of place, their work reveals a vibrant scene where jewelry serves as a language for identity, reflection, and connection.
What began as an exploration of Colombia’s contemporary jewelry landscape through Season 9 of the Perceived Value podcast evolved into a cross-cultural collaboration between Osage-American artist and podcaster Sarah Rachel Brown and Colombian artist Ana María Jiménez, culminating in the project now presented at Gallery Loupe.
Both the exhibition and podcast series take their name from Malcolm Gladwell’s idea of the “Connector,” someone who builds bridges between people, ideas, and communities.
At its center is a collective necklace composed of fragments made by each participating artist; a symbolic connector that embodies the act of coming together through craft.
Marking the first group exhibition in the United States dedicated solely to Colombian contemporary jewelry, CONNECTOR celebrates how creative exchange can strengthen networks and foster community across borders.
memory embedded in jewelry and how they can be rei through unconventional materials such as chocolate. F
CONNECTOR, her piece Sweet Gold brings together materials, and stories of Tumaco, weaving a dialogue b histories, labor, and transformation.
Sweet Gold 2025 70% Bitter Chocolate, Recycled Unpurified Gold
nature and culture, an attempt to capture the purity, rh energy of its landscape. For Mazuera, jewelry is a lang sincerity and joy, ever evolving through observation an
La Puya del BichoFue
After twenty-three years in Barcelona, Estrada returned where reconnection with Colombia’s lush nature has b source of renewal and gratitude. His recent piece, Vien was born from this encounter, an act of deep appreciat celebration of life’s vivid beauty. It transforms color, mo emotion into a wearable anchor of wonder, a reminder privilege of being immersed once again in the marvel o world.
Vuelo 2025
Various / Wood, Amber, Pearls, Copper, Brass, Glass
Thread, Paint, Oil
$2,000
cut acrylic piece, handwoven with thread, flows into th forming a continuous current where connection and fra where every encounter leaves a trace, like water shapi @piprojectb
Cauce 2025 Handwoven Cotton Thread, Sterling Silver $800
Electroformed Copper, Crocheted Silver, Emeral $1,550
Estrada Matyášová approaches jewelry as a medium th the soul to the world, an intimate act of communication emotion becomes form. Her recent work reflects on m cultural and racial intertwining of Latin America using such as oxidized silver and copper to evoke lineage, m the shared continuity inscribed on the skin of a contine
Crossed lines / Tegumentum 2 2025
Woven 999 Oxidized Silver and Copper Thread.
$1,350
In his recent piece, Kiseno explores the theme of conn through a technical and structural lens. By developing of joining and articulating forms, he investigates how s flexible unions can create movement and versatility wit His meticulous experimentation reveals connection no mechanical function but as an aesthetic language of p adaptability, and transformation.
SBSG18
2025
Fabricated Silver, Brass, Steel, Chalcedony, Chry
$2,500
Awarded the Marzee Graduate Prize in 2020, Escobar explores the tensions and connections between body, belonging. For her, jewelry becomes a site where what also binds us, a physical surface that reveals both diffe unity.
@virginia
No-Matter 2025
Chiseling technique in a self-created material com organic ingredients and cosmetics. Hollow const using cotton and polyester thread, steel wire, and sterling.
$1900
reconstructing, Jiménez dwells in process, attentive to transformation, presence, and care. Each gesture beco of grounding and protection, creating a net that holds w connects, sustains, and remembers.
@ Tiempo
Tejido
2025 Cumare, Silver, Copper, Brass, Stone, Wood.
$2,000
In her recent work, Trujillo reclaims cotton from a disca collar men’s shirt—a symbol of patriarchal order and c and transforms it into pulp that envelops a woven struc recycled silver thread. Through this slow process of un remaking, she investigates systems of value, power, an revealing spaces of memory, repair, and connection.
Practices of Lightness
2025
Hand-drawn and woven 950 Silver, Oxidation, Cotton
Handmade paper
$800
tubular structures that evoke the textures and hues of t places where nature quietly reclaims space. Her jewelr transformation, emotion, and the quiet beauty of the pre moment.
@alinalopezj
Urban Landscapes 2025 Copper, Neoprene Cord $900
element as part of a living system capable of change an The result is a meditation on continuity, how matter, me body remain intertwined in an ever-shifting cycle of tran
ERA TEMPRANA 2025 Gold-plated Bronze $1,500
