Elizaveta Alyson Rubin A Fire Maiden’s Caged Cove Pendant

Elizaveta Alyson Rubin A Fire Maiden’s Caged Cove pendant

8cm x 8.5cm bronze on sea foam green silk chiffon ribbon.

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.

Her repoussé works, including the Alchemical Pendulum and A Fire Maiden’s Caged Cove pendants, begin with geometric abstraction. Drawing on Suprematist and Spiritualist principles, she distills interior visions into essential forms—circles, triangles, spirals—which become the structural architecture of each piece. Within these welded frameworks, chiseled repoussé marks create surface texture and imagery. Her background in dance and expressive movement informs this stage of creation: the hammered marks become gestural, nearly choreographic, translating observations of water’s flow, fire’s transformation, and the unfurling of plants into animated metal surfaces.

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.

 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

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