March 2025, Part 2
Right now, we all could use a treat. It feels good to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while celebrating and supporting artists and the galleries who show them!
Art Jewelry Forum’s international gallery supporters celebrate and exhibit art jewelry. Our bi-monthly On Offer series allows this extensive network of international galleries to showcase extraordinary pieces personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Take a look. You’re bound to find a fantastic piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Takayoshi Terajima
Retail price: €440, plus shipping
Takayoshi Terajima, born in Chiba, Japan, lives and works in Munich, Germany. “This work is based on the theme of the cultural differences I experienced through my overseas migration and the latent memories that arise in my daily life,” states the artist. “The material I chose, tatami mats, is a symbol that evokes memories of my hometown for me, and their unique weaving method, the scent of the rush grass, and the warmth I feel every time I touch them all re-create vivid memories through the five senses. The moment I touch a tatami mat, even in a foreign land, the Japanese scenery that lies deep in my heart is revived, and I can face my own roots.”
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Silvie Altschuler
Retail price: CAN$1,000
Silvie Altschuler does not limit herself in any way. With freedom, she surprises with her unexpected compositions, which combine humor and irony.
Gallery: Objects Beautiful, London, UK (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Yael Reisner (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Carina Shoshtary
Retail price: Each £3360, plus VAT
These two pieces of hair jewelry by Carina Shoshtary are hugely original, with a highly personal expression. Shoshtary employed very unusual skills, and creates in PLA using a 3D-drawing pen in the most controlled way that not very many jewelers could, and creates an assembly with collected, mostly recycled parts, with an incredible choices aesthetically.
Shoshtary created these two combs after losing her love. The Grief comb speaks of her pain of loss, and act of remembrance, while the Hope comb speaks of resilience and tender growth amidst shadows. Both combs rest side by side, like two voices in conversation.
Gallery: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Itto Mishima
Retail price: €1,290
Itto Mishima, born in 1985 in Yokohama, Japan, is an assistant professor at Kobe Design University and a contemporary jewelry artist. He strives to create unique, formally beautiful pieces that captivate viewers with their innovative shapes and designs. Mishima’s work deliberately avoids figurative motifs, instead focusing on abstract forms that evoke immediate aesthetic appreciation without relying on preconceived notions or memories.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the name for email)
Artist: Anna Bankuti
Retail price: US$1,295
With a surrealistic feel, these chandelier earrings stare right back at you. Each and every detail is hand drawn by the Hungarian artist, making each piece Anna Bankuti creates one-of-a-kind. With a great deal of movement, this pair of earrings is guaranteed to be a conversation starter.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Brenda Ridgewell
Retail price: AUS$820
Brenda Ridgewell is one of the five established makers from Perth that will be exhibiting at Zu design’s Syncopation exhibition, opening May 3, 2025. Ridgewell writes about her latest pieces: “Directional Space is part of a series of works developed over the past decade exploring precious and semiprecious materials to echo the preciousness and tenacity of life through repetitive forms. The interplay of forms that move both physically and visually in relation to the human form become sculptural forms to accentuate the beauty of the human body.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Hansel Tai
Retail price: US$500
This pendant belongs to a body of work that speculatively examines pearls in connection to other materials, celebrating their unique materiality and inherent significance. Through this exploration, the pieces delve deeply into the myth of a life journey that crosses continents, highlighting the dramatic and transformative moments that shape these precious objects and the undeniable beauty they possess. A pierced pearl carries an underlying sense of rebellion, and there’s a raw, defiant energy that runs through the artist’s creative process.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Umeå, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Hanna Liljenberg
Retail price: €280
Hanna Liljenberg grew up surrounded by the harsh environments and salty seaside rocks on the Swedish west coast. The aesthetics of the landscape colors her work. Pale-colored shapes made out of paper contrast with oxidized brass, reminiscent of lichen growing on windswept granite.
Gallery: Galerie Door, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Barbara Paganin
Retail price: €6,650
Barbara Paganin was trained in Venice, Italy, at the Istituto Statale d’Arte di Venezia (1974–1980) and from 1980–1984 at the Accademia di Belle Arti, in Venice, where she specialized in sculpture. This brooch is a beautiful example of her earlier work, just before she started to use found (antique) objects.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the name for email)
Artist: Erica Bello
Retail price: US$525
Don’t yuck my yum! This signet ring holds a hand-carved intaglio that subtly declares one’s love of lust. Since 2013, Erica Bello has created multi-dimensional work that bridges the gap between traditional and contemporary jewelry. With an interest in the reinterpretation of classic iconography, she looks to historical artifacts, folk art, and ubiquitous keepsakes for inspiration. Designs rise out of recurring motifs and settle to form objects that evoke feelings of nostalgia and familiarity. Classically trained, Bello explores ancient metalsmithing techniques alongside modern design. The result is in her own immediately recognizable work that falls somewhere between classic and contemporary jewelry.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Chloe Le Pichon (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Andrea Haffner
Retail price: US$235
This piece combines geometric metal with beautiful dried botanical pieces encased in resin. The natural forms and metal come together beautifully to create a stunning piece that allows you to wear a perfectly preserved piece of natural beauty. Andrea Haffner makes similar wall pieces as well, offering jewelry for both you and your home!
Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Marc Monzó
Retail price: €460
Marc Monzó lives and works in Spain. He studied jewelry, engraving, and sculpture at the Massana School, in Barcelona, and his work has been represented internationally since 1997. Monzó won the Ciutat de Barcelona Award (Design category), in Spain, in 2019, and the Francoise van den Bosch Award, in 2016. In this “Eclipse” brooch, Monzó shows his interest in the cosmic dimension. In his words: “I think an era’s on the way in which there will be much more cosmic awareness, not only about the planet but about space, about the fact that we live on an object in movement.”
Gallery: Ornamentum, Hudson, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Stefan Friedemann (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Mary Preston
Retail price: US$520
The American art jeweler Mary Preston had a large presence in the early 2000s. Parenthood and work life slowed that down. New silver earrings by Preston mark a return to her explorations of lace and historical patterns found in the decorative arts, in a beautiful, affordable and easily wearable adornment.
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