The universe of Daniel Brush, a thinker of jewelry The School of Jewelry Arts.
À The School of Jewelry Arts, In the summer of 2026, a unique perspective takes center stage. From June 8 to October 4, an exhibition invites visitors to explore the world of Daniel Brush, a unique figure whose work crosses disciplines with uncommon freedom. More than seventy-five pieces of jewelry, paintings, and sculptures form a journey where some of the objects, long kept in the artist’s New York studio, are presented to the public for the first time.
The title, The art of line and light, acts as a key. In Daniel Brush, the line does not encircle; it suggests, it suspends. The light, on the other hand, does not merely illuminate; it circulates, slides across surfaces, insinuates itself into the interstices. From this tension arises a work that escapes established categories. Orfèvre, draftsman, sculptor, and thinker are all facets brought together without hierarchy, in a practice nurtured by observation and experimentation.
Born in Cleveland in 1947, trained at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Brush taught for a time at Georgetown University before moving to New York in 1978. In a loft filled with old machines, he and his wife Olivia developed demanding research where the jewel no longer serves as a simple ornament but becomes a territory of exploration.
His works, now housed in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, bear witness to a unique path. The Parisian exhibition offers an attentive, almost meditative reading of them, where each piece seems to hold time as well as the gaze.
Visual emphasized: Daniel Brush, Orb – Photo L’ÉAJ – B. Chelly
