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A. Šepkus was born in 1954 in Kaunas, then graduated from the Lithuanian Art Institute, participated in exhibitions and in 1988 emigrated to the United States, where he founded the Alex Šepkus jewelry company four years later.
He has created more than 700 different jewels: rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, pendants, brooches, cufflinks.
The first works have a distinctive and provocative style, they stand out intelligently, masterfully created from silver, copper, decorated with gold, semi-precious stones, ivory, enamel, visual motifs, texts.
While living in the USA, A. Šepkus perfected the artistic processing of gold and platinum, began to use diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, rubies, created a unique method of artistic expression based on a luxurious and refined ornamental composition, a extremely complex and precise execution. .
Jewelry has connections with ancient Western European sacred goldsmithing, Byzantine art, Art Nouveau ornamentation, they contain secrecy and irony.
In 1993, he won the New Years Designer Award for American Jewelers. The works are in the National Museum of Art of Lithuania.
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