Episode 111: How Ornamentum Gallery Became the Art Jewel of Hudson, NY with Stefan Friedmann Co-founder of Ornamentum Gallery

What you’ll learn in this episode:

Why you don’t always need to focus on big cities when looking for art jewelry How Ornamentum finds and selects artists to represent How Stefan defines conceptual jewelry The inspiration behind the work of Jiro Kamata, one of Ornamentum’s well-known artists How Ornamentum has attracted a loyal, young group of collectors and maintained those relationships, even in the pandemic

About Stefan Friedmann

Stefan Friedmann is the co-founder of Ornamentum Gallery with his wife, Laura Lapachin. Founded in 2002 in Hudson, New York, Ornamentum exhibits a dynamic collection of contemporary jewelry as well as related objects and artworks. Stefan and Laura founded the gallery after themselves being educated as jewelers/designers in the USA and Germany. These experiences put to work in the gallery setting have earned them international acclaim as impeccable and discerning curators.

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Pink and grn neck

iro Kamata

Holon Necklace 6, 2021

necklace, oxidized silver, camera lenses with PVD coating

length 16.93 inches /43 cm

photo: Jiro Kamata

David Bielander

Cardboard (Heart), 2016

bracelet, 18k gold, white gold staples

3.65 x 3.125 x .9 inches

9.3 x 7.9 x 2.3 cm

Edition of 12 - 1 example in the Newark Art Museum collection.

photo: Dirk Eisel

Aaron Decker

Pink Tug, 2018

necklace, enamel, copper

7.87 x .79 x 1.57 inches

20 x 2 x 4 cm

photo Aaron Decker

Ornamentum showing jewelry and related art and design works at Design Miami in 2019

photo: James Harris.