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“Synergy & Symbiosis” is open now through late April at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in Oak Brook, Illinois.
This creation titled “Peles’s Mist” features Brazilian fire opal carved by Glenn Lehrer with faceted black spinel and garnet set in gold. It is one of 12 collaborative pieces by Lehrer and designer Paula Crevoshay currently on display at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art. (Photo courtesy of the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art)
Oak Brook, Ill.—A new exhibition featuring sculptural jewelry is open at the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art in the Chicago area.
The exhibition, titled “Synergy & Symbiosis,” features 12 pieces that are collaborations between jewelry designer Paula Crevoshay and gemstone carver Glenn Lehrer, who died in late November following a battle with cancer.
The partnership began in 2010, and in a talk at the museum posted to YouTube last month, Crevoshay said the final piece was finished in 2024.
The designer said, “[Glenn] is a major talent, and we had to do it all so perfectly, because it’s probably going to be one of his last messages to us on this planet.”
Crevoshay has been partnering with innovative gem cutters for decades.
In her talk, she explained that when she was an emerging designer in the 1980s, she took an interest in a then-new approach to gem cutting—self-taught artists who invented their own tools, developed their own techniques, and were “unfettered by any tradition.”
Crevoshay was inspired to work with these artists to memorialize that development in art history, and center modern American gem cutters and exhibit their creations, beginning with the 2002 show “Voices of the Earth,” which was displayed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
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The exhibition, titled “Synergy & Symbiosis,” features 12 pieces that are collaborations between jewelry designer Paula Crevoshay and gemstone carver Glenn Lehrer, who died in late November following a battle with cancer.
The partnership began in 2010, and in a talk at the museum posted to YouTube last month, Crevoshay said the final piece was finished in 2024.
The designer said, “[Glenn] is a major talent, and we had to do it all so perfectly, because it’s probably going to be one of his last messages to us on this planet.”
Crevoshay has been partnering with innovative gem cutters for decades.
In her talk, she explained that when she was an emerging designer in the 1980s, she took an interest in a then-new approach to gem cutting—self-taught artists who invented their own tools, developed their own techniques, and were “unfettered by any tradition.”
Crevoshay was inspired to work with these artists to memorialize that development in art history, and center modern American gem cutters and exhibit their creations, beginning with the 2002 show “Voices of the Earth,” which was displayed at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
“During these projects, Glenn Lehrer and I discovered we have a very compatible aesthetic approach to our art. We stimulated each other to new creative heights,” she said.
She added, “Our artistic impulses are truly symbiotic. There is an amazing synergy as we build on each other’s ideas.”
The “Synergy & Symbiosis” exhibition is on display now through now April 27.
It is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, and advanced reservations are recommended.
For more information, visit the Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art’s website.
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