A Collection of Masha Archer Beaded Jewelry

Welcome

We are Enthusiastic and Passionate Collectors of the Avant-Garde Artist Designer, Masha Archer. We research and document the Art and One-of-a-Kind, Art-to-Wear Jewelry of Masha, and release the pieces again to devoted collectors.

We invite you to feel at home in the World and

'Wear Your Art!'

Recognized worldwide, Masha Archer created an extraordinary style in jewelry; when not worn, her pieces rest in cases on walls, like icons and other precious objects of art.

Her necklaces are breathtaking: coral, lapis, pearl, jade, amber, bone, African trade beads, silver and turquoise touch the skin. Her art is an embodiment of the spirit of color reborn into the shape of beads, whose function is that of body sculpture.

Extending the horizons of our vision beyond the safety of compositions that match or "go together" because of similarity and uniformity, Masha introduces the viewer to elements that are startlingly diverse not only in color, shape, and texture, but in design and cultural origin, mixing materials that span time and many ethnicities. The resulting piece momentarily takes us aback, and we are swept up in a rich sensory experience of vibrant colors, patterns and shapes that, at first seem impossible to the eye, but command a desire to see more, to comprehend something new. Any initial feelings of discordant forces working against each other give way to a coherent wholeness and everything one knows about design falls away and is re-organized into a higher sense of order in which the individual components of the necklace at once communicate amongst themselves, creating a symphony, the entire piece being greater then the sum of it’s parts.

Inspired by music, Opera in particular, Masha says, "I see melodies and repetition of themes in these pieces and I work to achieve certain harmonies and rhthyms...my mother transmitted to me the idea that colors are to be heard in groups as a melody and the same notes and the same colors that combine differently and recombine perpetually with each other, producing entirely different music",

To describe Masha's Jewelry, we must create a new language, one that speaks to the grandeur of the human spirit.

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