"Shana Kroiz’s jewelry, like the Baltimore-based artist herself, can best be described as exuberant. Over the past two decades she has developed a visual vocabulary that ranges from contoured metallic forms whose sumptuous curves embody the best impulses of Art Nouveau in a very contemporary (even futuristic) way, to painterly constructions in bright enamels that bring to mind the aquatic fauna and exotic flora of some imagined tropical paradise...[her] pieces are united in their meticulous craftsmanship, strong sculptural sensibility and unbridled sense of playfulness."