Aurum by Petra Class
Exhibition
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03 Oct 2025
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31 Oct 2025
Published: 02.10.2025
Patina Gallery
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Known for her sculptural use of high-karat gold and rare gemstones, Petra Class presents a collection that distills light into form. Each piece an elemental study in color, structure, and the quiet radiance of hand-worked metal.
Join the opening on Friday, October 3 at Patina Gallery, with a reception from 5 to 7pm.
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Petra Class
Born in Germany and based in San Francisco, Petra Class is celebrated for her refined, tactile approach to high-karat gold. Today, she creates alongside her son, Lucas, and daughter-in-law, Phoebe, extending the lineage of her art into a new generation. Their work rests at the intersection of ancient materiality and contemporary design—at once clear-eyed and lyrical. Over decades of practice, Class has shaped a distinctive visual language of line, grid, and color, where structure guides composition and gemstones shine with innate chroma, now evolving through a shared vision.
High-karat planes fuse around gemstones whose hues feel timeless—sea-glass aquamarines, electric tourmalines, cobalt lapis, and iridescent opals. For Class, gold is not mere adornment; it is skeleton and skin, a living framework that holds light in suspension.
Gold is a patient metal. It records every gesture. I think of each piece as a ledger of touch, the hammer's rhythm, the heat's breath, the small decisions that give a stone room to glow.
Highlights of the exhibition include new explorations of Class’s beloved “scribble” and “strata” vocabularies: hand-drawn lines transposed into three-dimensional gold, and bold graphic forms framing gems in her organic, sculptural style. The cadence is unmistakably hers: modern, intelligent, and deeply wearable.
Join us as Petra Class unveils a new body of work shimmering with high-karat gold, rare stones, and her unmistakable alchemy.
Opening Reception on October 3 at Patina Gallery, with a reception from 5 to 7pm.
Opening hours: 3 - 31 October 2025. Monday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm.
High-karat planes fuse around gemstones whose hues feel timeless—sea-glass aquamarines, electric tourmalines, cobalt lapis, and iridescent opals. For Class, gold is not mere adornment; it is skeleton and skin, a living framework that holds light in suspension.
Gold is a patient metal. It records every gesture. I think of each piece as a ledger of touch, the hammer's rhythm, the heat's breath, the small decisions that give a stone room to glow.
Highlights of the exhibition include new explorations of Class’s beloved “scribble” and “strata” vocabularies: hand-drawn lines transposed into three-dimensional gold, and bold graphic forms framing gems in her organic, sculptural style. The cadence is unmistakably hers: modern, intelligent, and deeply wearable.
Join us as Petra Class unveils a new body of work shimmering with high-karat gold, rare stones, and her unmistakable alchemy.
Opening Reception on October 3 at Patina Gallery, with a reception from 5 to 7pm.
Opening hours: 3 - 31 October 2025. Monday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm.
Patina Gallery
- Mail:
- projects
patina-gallery.com - allison
patina-gallery.com
- Phone:
- +1 505.986.3432
- Management:
- Allison Buchsbaum
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