Meet the artist: MAUREEN KAHN
Interview with the Artist COMING SOON!
Maureen Kahn is an artist, illustrator, and scientist.
animation by Maureen Kahn
Drawing by Maureen Kahn
These very doodles became the foundation for the collection, and we incorporated these originals in the product photography and animations for the lookbook!
HANDwork is a collaboration between Sophie Kissin Jewelry and artist Maureen Kahn.
I met Maureen in Russian class at Carleton College. We kept in touch and admired each others’ art over the years since college.
When I saw Maureen’s fascination with hands across all media in her art practice, it sparked something— Maybe because hands feature so prominently in jewelry-making?
Our hands are constantly at work, no matter what you do. The HANDwork collection is a celebration and a study of the work we do with our hands.
Maureen, based in Minneapolis, MN, carved many of the hand pieces in this collection in wax and sent the waxes to me in Albuquerque where I had them cast with a local caster. The pieces were then fabricated, flourished, and finished in my studio in Nob Hill. Some of the pieces were entirely fabricated (no cast pieces used) by hand based on Maureen’s hand doodles.
animation by Maureen, which inspired the unique clasped hand pearl choker to earrings piece in the HANDwork collection.
clay hands by Maureen Kahn
Maureen in studio!