Remembering New York artist Daniel Brush, 1947 – 2022

by Editors Staff
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It was a memorably mind-altering day, some ten years in the past, once I first met the elusive, enigmatic artist Daniel Brush, and his spouse and muse Olivia, of their huge Manhattan loft condominium. I like to retell the second Brush emerged from his city jungle of vintage guilloché machines, wearing his floor-length leather-based apron, big leather-based gauntlets and magnifying goggles on an iron band pushed up over his forehead. 

Much more memorable is the second, many visits and plenty of stimulating conversations later, when Brush requested if I’d write a ebook about his jewels and jewel sculptures. There had, till then, been books on his work, on his complete canon, however nothing devoted totally to his jewels. 

‘Jewelry is a automobile to get nearer to the gods, a conduit to permit goals into our lives, into the maze of all of it’

Daniel Brush

It felt like a implausible alternative, but in addition an enormous duty, to do justice to Brush’s awe-inspiring work as a goldsmith and jeweller, to convey the breadth, depth and complexity of his pondering, the philosophy and idiosyncratic world-view that underpins, informs and shapes his work. It’s finest summed up, maybe, when he says, ‘Jewelry is a automobile to get nearer to the gods, a conduit to permit goals into our lives, into the maze of all of it.’

Poppy, handcarved, in stainless-steel and diamonds, 2010

(Picture credit score: Daniel Dorsa)

Supply: Wallpaper

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