April 2025, Part 2
In this moment, things are … highly weird (that’s putting it lightly) … and 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 fabulous piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team name for email)
Artist: Elizabeth Garvin
Retail price: US$2,645
These stylish black and gold earrings crafted by Elizabeth Garvin have dazzling sparkle in a classic black and gold color palette. Based in New York City, Garvin produces designs as chic as they are wearable. Her meticulous attention to detail makes these fringe earrings truly amazing!
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: Staffan Jonsson
Retail price: €200
Staffan Jonsson’s summer job as a cemetery gardener became a starting point for this project, which deals with the moments between life and death. The works have associations to childlike toys, naiveté, darkness, and sometimes violence. This piece is built up from sheets and rods of sterling silver, cut, filed, and soldered. The dark surface is niello, a metal alloy of silver copper, lead, and sulfur that gives a strong cover and an expression that fits perfectly with the motif.
Gallery: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Ruudt Peters
Retail price: €5,320
Ruudt Peters’s Suctus collection invites viewers into a world of mystery and transformation. These brooches explore the tension between vessel and void, light and shadow, evoking ancient rituals and myths. Forms reminiscent of sacrificial objects and Charon’s boats suggest journeys into the unknown. Deep shadows and muted tones create a sense of depth and introspection. Each piece is a poetic meditation on life, death, and rebirth. Dive into the Suctus Succato brooch—an artwork that stirs the soul, inspiring profound reflection and contemplation.
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: Molly Shulman
Retail price: US$1,640
This is the first finished piece from Molly Shulman’s iykykBravo line. These pieces take quotes and images from emotionally intense moments in BravoTV’s show Vanderpump Rules. Shulman is a jewelry artist blending contemporary and fine jewelry styles. In 2017, she began teaching at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, where she also leads youth programs. Shulman’s work ranges from fun designs to meaningful custom pieces, which often incorporate vintage materials. She lives in Baltimore with her partner and pets, where she continues to teach and create.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Diane Egbert
Retail price: US$20,020
Diane Egbert has an incredible collection of unique stones. The strands of opal beads frame this blue chalcedony beautifully.
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: Hilde Folks
Retail price: €700
Hilde Folks has been working for years with metal spiral springs in her spatial and flexible jewelry, making them her trademark. This delicate, unique piece, with geometric shapes that mold undulating volumes sprinkled with tiny glass beads, takes us back to the landscape that its title evokes.
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: Tamia Dellinger
Retail price: €1,530, plus shipping
“The thesis Poetics of Passage is about time, place, and storytelling, and how these concepts are intertwined,” states Tamia Dellinger. “By exploring one of these concepts, you will somehow end up exploring one of the other two. The starting point of the research was the book The Songlines, by Bruce Chatwin. Chatwin’s book explores the labyrinth of invisible pathways which cover the whole Australian Country, known to Europeans as song-lines or dreaming-tracks and to the aboriginals as the Footprints of the Ancestors or the Way of the Law. ‘One might see a songline as a set of directions, but it is also a trading counter, a form of genealogy, an inalienable possession, and a fragment of an entire mythic structure that takes different forms across Australia.’ (Chatwin, 2012, p. xiv) The first chapter, Time and time and time and time, explores different aspects of the passage of time, how we perceive it (memory), how we see it in the landscape, and how it is present in the way we talk. The second chapter, Place (worlds of meaning), is about the land and the meanings we give to it, be it by attaching stories to landscapes or by the materials we extract from it. The last chapter, In betweenness (poetics), is about walking, and how Robert Smithson, Ana Mendieta, and Richard Long have used the ideas talked about previously in their work. The core of the text is the relation between man and land, through storytelling, using the songlines as a conceptual starting point.”
Gallery: In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Brian Weissman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Lin Cheung
Retail price: US$3,245
Lin’s distinctive approach to making offers a witty and poignant response to the human condition. Jewelry is both creative output and a point of reference and inspiration, with the artist frequently making work as a result of a self-reference to jewelry. Lin quotes her underlying “love-hate” relationship with jewelry as a healthy way to understand and explore a vast and diverse subject that loyally sticks close to its archetypal roots but also has the impressive ability to morph and move with the times.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Caroline Broadhead
Retail price: US$6,000
The recent works of Caroline Broadhead have confronted the image and idea of a pearl necklace. Slipping off the neck, in the act of dropping and in need of another necklace catching and holding it. A vintage pearl necklace is wrapped between carefully threaded white transparent glass beads. Broadhead gave a lecture at the Pinakothek in Munich during Schmuck 2025 and is one of the finalists of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2025.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Steven KP
Retail price: US$1,650
Soft movements, gentle gestures, following line and leaning into the curves. Quiet and gentle, this work can be such a balm for this moment. Incredible carved wood pieces by Steven KP.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, NSW, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Gillian Rainer
Retail price: AUS$810
Gillian Rainer is one of the five established makers from Perth who will be exhibiting at Zu design’s Syncopation exhibition, which opens May 3, 2025. Rainer draws daily, observing natural forms and domestic artefacts which inform her pieces. She transforms her line work into metal constructions, and then, by combining these with collected materials referencing nature, creates her often whimsical jewelry.
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