Rachel Gera
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Rachel Gera is considered one of Israel's most dynamic artists in the field of three-dimensional design.
Born in 1936, in Tel Aviv, to Polish immigrants, Gera began producing art at an early age. She studied at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Art and was instrumental in launching the crafts movement in the Old City Jaffa.
Jewelry, for Gera, has always been a matter of artistic creation instead of fashionable adornment. She views her pieces as massive and personal sculpture, blending with the wearer's body, identity, way of life and environment.
Those who collect the artist`s jewelry include Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Marcel Marceau and Leonard Bernstein.
"I make jewelry for only one woman, that's me," Gera says. "If anybody else likes it and wants to buy it, good."
Born in 1936, in Tel Aviv, to Polish immigrants, Gera began producing art at an early age. She studied at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Art and was instrumental in launching the crafts movement in the Old City Jaffa.
Jewelry, for Gera, has always been a matter of artistic creation instead of fashionable adornment. She views her pieces as massive and personal sculpture, blending with the wearer's body, identity, way of life and environment.
Those who collect the artist`s jewelry include Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Marcel Marceau and Leonard Bernstein.
"I make jewelry for only one woman, that's me," Gera says. "If anybody else likes it and wants to buy it, good."