August 2025, Part 1
These days, we all could use a treat. It feels good to celebrate and support artists and the galleries who show them while getting a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves!
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: Hansel Tai
Retail price: €1,100, plus shipping
Hansel Tai’s work explores queer and subcultural narratives in the post-internet age, focusing on themes of body cults, deformation, and fetish objects. Precious materials such as jade and pearls are treated as analogues for skin and body parts, blurring the line between the organic and the ornamental. Through this material language, Tai engages with body politics while simultaneously indulging in a sensual material fetishism—inviting viewers to confront desire, identity, and transformation within a hyper-mediated world. This work is part of the exhibition cycle Rings Of Saturn 5/12 (Leo).
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: Elaine Zukowski
Retail price: US$1,150
Elaine Zukowski is a Baltimore-based craftsperson and art conservator specializing in gilded objects. She earned a BFA in fiber art from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and her conservation work includes projects for the Barnes Foundation and the US Capitol. An intro to metalsmithing course sparked Zukowski’s passion for metal and contemporary jewelry. She creates tactile, hand-dyed jewelry pieces, including a series of micro crocheted balloon-like forms, like those seen here. These whimsical, lightweight works invite touch and interaction. Her jewelry has been exhibited at Dransfield Jewelers (Richmond, VA, US), Graver’s Lane Gallery (Philadelphia, PA, US), and the Baltimore Jewelry Center.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Björkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Eric Loubser
Retail price: €2,200
Eric Loubsers’ work is mainly about exploring some of the fundamentals of our everyday existence in a playful way: the creative and technical process of making, our relationship to objects that surround us, preoccupations of the zeitgeist. He uses a lot of themes from popular culture. Absurdities of speech and amusing ironies in the contemporary social climate often underpin the pieces, and he enjoys it when people smile in response to them. Loubser works and live in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is one of the two directors of Tinsel Gallery.
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: Esteban Erosky
Retail price: €500
The works of Esteban Erosky are covered with motifs balancing between discomfort and humor, the perverse and the childish, sweets and intestines. They deal with conflicts linked to gender, religion, pleasure, and fear. The jewelry is made of metal and enamel, but Erosky’s glass drawings have a spontaneous, emotional expression, in stark contrast to the time-consuming craftsmanship.
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: Joanne Grimonprez
Retail price: US$395
This architecture-inspired necklace by French artist Joanne Grimonprez combines rope with geometric powder-coated copper for a compelling, sleek look. And because of its durability, this piece is perfect to travel with!
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the name for email)
Artist: Misaki Sano
Retail price: US$990
The combination of delicate silver and seashells is beautiful and poetic. This piece is in Gravers Lane Gallery’s current exhibition, In Motion.
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: Ana Margarida Carvalho
Retail price: €6,000
Inspired by Baroque music—particularly the operas Ana Margarida Carvalho was performing at the time she was making the work—each piece begins with the repetition and combination of a single unit: a folded titanium element. Like origami, these units are assembled to form organic structures, with their underlying geometry concealed through the forging process. The organic quality is further enhanced by the hammer marks, the mobility of the non-welded components, and the unique anodized color of each piece.
Gallery: Gallery Loupe, Montclair, NJ, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Patti Bleicher (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Carina Shoshtary
Retail price: US$460
This series was created for the moments when we begin to blossom again after darkness. It began during a time when the artist found herself longing for color, for the brighter sides of life, much like one longs for light after a long winter. The early pieces felt like provisions for better days: colorful promises, little escapes, wearable dreams. The works that have since emerged belong to a world shaped by floral and fungal fantasies, inspired by nature’s quiet resilience, its ability to gather strength in hidden places and bloom anew. We give flowers when words are not enough, and the artist seeks to create flower-like forms that can be worn, symbols of hope, joy, and aliveness. Not reserved for special occasions, but for those everyday moments when we remember that life is beautiful and worth feeling fully.
Gallery: Salotto SPJ, Milan, Italy (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Josefine Spjeldnaes (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Yeena Yoon
Retail price: £6,720
The Rotating Citrine Lapis Earrings exemplify Yeena Yoon’s architectural approach to jewelry. Hand-carved lapis lazuli discs are paired with citrine and 18-karat gold in a rotating mechanism that allows the earrings to shift dramatically in appearance, from vivid blue to softly textured gold. The design invites movement and interaction, transforming with the gestures of the wearer. Yoon’s background as an architect, including work at Zaha Hadid Architects, continues to inform her practice, where spatial thinking and material precision converge. Trained by master goldsmiths and lapidaries, she explores the tension between structure and fluidity. Her work has been recognized with grants and awards including the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust and Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Award.
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: Christine Collins
Retail price: AUS$1,390
Christine Collins’s Pieta neckpiece is an abstract interpretation of Voitre Marek’s lead Pieta, housed in the Art Gallery of South Australia. Created for the Sacred exhibition at Zu design, the piece merges sacred themes with a tribute to South Australian art. Collins, who’s known for exploring material transformation, incorporates silver and zinc mined from Broken Hill. The mining boom in Broken Hill, though wealth-generating, also left a legacy of environmental harm, loss, and dispossession. Collins uses the Pieta form to symbolize this sacrifice and the enduring effects of industrial exploitation.
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: Ralph Bakker
Retail price: €7,120
Ralph Bakker’s earrings, crafted in 2012, are a historical testament to his dedication to traditional craftsmanship and timeless beauty. Born in Germany in 1958 and educated in the Netherlands, Bakker explores the evolution of the jewel through history and technique. Unlike many contemporaries, he eschews conceptual trends in his work, focusing on the object’s intrinsic beauty. Inspired by Renaissance masters, his pieces reflect a deep respect for tradition while seamlessly blending the contemporary and the timeless.
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