Featured Artist
Iris Guy-Sofer
Guy-Sofer, A Seattle based master jeweler and an artist, was born in Israel and earned her formal degree in conceptual design at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, Israel.
After graduating, and making an award-winning career in graphic design. She was relocated from Israel to Japan with her family and finally to the United States, working as a freelance graphic artist. All the while, she designed jewelry for her friends and family. As the popularity of my collection grew, she decided to create a line of jewelry for the retail market and created her embroidery art works.
Today, Guy Sofer’s collection has been featured in the Seattle Art museum store, Tel Aviv Art museum store as well as galleries and fine boutiques in the pacific northwest and in Israel.
Guy Sofer’s work reflects her experiences in very specific purposeful and personal way.
In addition to her jewelry collection, Guy-Sofer has created a textile art and embroidery art works. In this era of change during covid, She embraced this opportunity and for the last years, have been immersed the embroidery creations in her work as a metalsmith.
Guy-Sofer combines the immediate digital moments, snap-shots, selfies of her children and family with printed mass production items, using the nostalgic craftsmanship she was taught by her grandmother, to a fine art works
remaking and re-living those visuals and giving them the strength they deserve.
Her work both the jewelry and the embroidery art, reflects her experiences in a very specific purposeful and personal way..