Elizaveta Alyson Rubin Budding Tendril Upper Arm Cuff

Elizaveta Alyson Rubin Bronze Upper Arm Cuff 

18cm approx in circumference that can be altered by gently molding to tighten or loosen. In a choice of bronze or brass.

Elizaveta Alyson Rubin creates wearable art, sculptural jewelry, and metal sculpture that bridge ancient craft traditions and contemporary form. Working primarily in bronze, brass, silver, and steel, she employs traditional metalworking techniques—lost-wax casting, repoussé, forging—as alchemical processes that transform raw material through fire and water into objects of symbolic power.

The natural world shapes her lost-wax cast works. Her Seafoam Entrails collection references the myth of Aphrodite’s birth and the organic formations created by seawater’s movement. She works directly with natural materials—seaweed, ferns, moss—studying their textures and occasionally incorporating them into the casting process. Her practice includes forming wax in moving water to generate unpredictable, intestinal shapes, allowing spontaneous natural forces to collaborate with artistic intention. These organically formed elements combine with hand-sculpted wax pressed with fingers and heated tools, creating imagery such as the flowering forms on her Budding Tendrils bracelets and armbands.

Rubin’s work carries an inherent theatricality drawn from her performance background. Each piece functions as wearable narrative, transforming the body into a site of storytelling. She draws from the Surrealists’ practice of manifesting dream logic in material form and the 1970s Art-to-Wear movement’s proposition that sculpture could be worn, that the body itself could become the pedestal. Her jewelry exists within this lineage—designed not for static display but for activation through wearing, pieces that complete themselves only when inhabiting the world on a living body.
Rubin studied Drama and Art History at New York University. Initially self-taught in metalwork, she trained in traditional techniques at Anamma Jewelry School in Athens and studied advanced methods under master goldsmith Cristiano Pierazzuoli at Alchimia Jewelry School in Florence. Currently based between Atlanta and New York, she is apprenticing with sculptor Andrée Paerels, expanding her practice through metal fabrication and welding to create larger-scale installation and freestanding sculptural works.

“Never have I seen more ravishing jewelry than shone in the foam, thin broken pieces quivering with the slightest breath of air so that all the colors scintillated with the movement.” —Walter Anderson

Please note this is a contemporary piece.

Worn in some images with the matching bracelet, available in a separate listing.

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