On Offer

July 2024, Part 2

There are so many reasons to purchase art jewelry…

• Celebrate that hard-earned promotion
• Honor a once-in-a-lifetime occasion
• Pay tribute to a major accomplishment
• Commemorate the beginning of a new relationship or the end of one
• Pounce on the perfect piece to round out an aspect of your collection
• Or invest in a treat for yourself—just because

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: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team name for email)
Artist: Karin Jacobson
Retail price: US$3,995
These one-of-a-kind earrings feature Montana sapphires in brilliant hues of sea green and slate blue that descend from Karin Jacobson’s signature origami details. Adorned with post-consumer recycled diamonds, which are an environmentally responsible alternative to virgin diamonds, this pair is a wonderful option for anyone concerned with having the smallest environmental footprint possible.

Gallery: Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Patricia Kiley Faber (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Atelier Munsteiner
Retail price: US$17,500
Atelier Munsteiner—the German studio comprising three generations of gem cutters and jewelry makers—has changed the gemstone world with their abstract-cut gems over the past five decades, going from a curiosity in 1960 to a vibrant expressive art form embraced throughout the gemstone industry. This ring, cut by Tom Munsteiner (1969–2023), embodies the art and grace of their work.

Gallery: Four Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Sofia Björkman
Retail price: US$1,600
Sofia Björkman got a 3D pen as a birthday gift, and that was the beginning of a new body of work. The three-dimensional drawings are about wilderness, about environmental impact—burnt landscapes, genetically modified plants, and affected animals. The human body is a landscape in which jewelry can be placed. From there the piece can travel, in space and in time, from one context to another.

Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Helena Johansson Lindell
Retail price: US$400 (stand included)
Helena Johansson Lindell works with hierarchical structures and prejudices. She embraces materials and methods that, from a societal perspective, are considered to have low status but are frequently used in pop culture. In parallel with her artistic practice, we find her on roller skates in skate parks, showing that jewelry also can be worn while doing sports. Arts, crafts, sports, and pop culture meet in wonderful, surprising combinations.

Gallery: Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, US (click the museum name to link to the website)
Contact: Ken Irish (click the name for email)
Artist: Corey Moranis
Retail price: US$200
Corey Moranis is a Canadian designer who handcrafts Lucite jewelry and accessories from her Toronto studio. She’s drawn to Lucite for its ethereal nature; it seems to float but has a solid presence, and its luminous effect changes with the light from day to night. Crystalline and prismatic, the playful loops, knots, and twists of her elemental pieces are informed by the medium itself, making a modern statement with a whisper. Each Moranis piece is one-of-a-kind—a hand-bent, wearable work of art.

Gallery: Funaki, Melbourne, Australia (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Katie Scott (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Manon van Kouswijk
Retail price: AUS$480
These brightly colored beaded necklaces, by Manon van Kouswijk, slip between diagrammatic formalism when presented as a group on a wall, and loose, joyful wearability on the body. A first series titled Beads for Buildings and Bodies was shown at Alta Forma last year in the exhibition Wall Arms & Table Legs. In this second series of works, van Kouswijk pushes the ideas embodied in those earlier works to new logical, but surprising, points. Glass seed beads, a highly decorative material, are used in a methodical way: numerical sequences and elementary geometrical shapes are beaded to become objects that can be pinned on the wall as three-dimensional material drawings or worn on the body in multiple ways. In this shift from architecture to body, from the wall to the chest, they transform from static geometry to flexible, playful jewelry.

Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Mélanie Denis
Retail price: CAN$1,900
Using a wide variety of materials, Mélanie Denis’s work expresses different themes such as human complexity, memory, and identity. Through ingenious composition, she creates graphic effects using transparent Plexiglas, revealing images printed on acetate that contrast with textured, colorful elements such as earthenware and grosgrain ribbon.

Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Julie Blyfield
Retail price: AUS$660
These Segmented earrings, by Julie Blyfield, are large but super lightweight because she uses a hand-chasing technique to form the shapes. This allows Blyfield to create beautiful textures, by chasing the line work and forming a hollow back in the piece, giving a sense of volume. Blyfield is a very well-known and prolific contemporary jewelry and object maker based in Adelaide, South Australia. This year the JamFactory has selected her to be their “icon” artist, which involves a large solo show and a book—keep your eyes peeled! She has created a new body of work which showcases her signature technique of hand chasing.

Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Chloë Le Pichon (click the name for email)
Artist: Andrea Haffner
Retail price: US$175
These earrings feature real dried botanical elements suspended within pigmented resin. The resin appears to have an inner glow, making the earrings radiant and unique.

Gallery: Galerie Door, Marienheide, Netherlands (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Moniek Schrijer
Retail price: €2,500
Some of New Zealand’s ancient caves are home to worms and beetles that tempt prey and/or partners with sticky threads and fluorescent colors. These ancient caves and woods inspired Moniek Schrijer for her latest series of highly seductive art jewelry, such as her Feeler II necklace with sparkling colors, translucent glass drops, and curling and crawling threads—or is it a critter?

Gallery: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Edu Tarín
Retail price: €4,350
“In the G0 series, each pendant has been traditionally hand-carved,” explains Edu Tarín. “Once the pendant is finished, two 3D scans are made: one of the finished pendant and another of a rough stone in the same material. This allows me to create a CNC-machined engraving of the negative of the pendant into the natural stone. In this way, the pendant is partially laying on it, creating an interplay of technologies, a dialog between methodologies, where the ‘what’ generates as a reflection of the ‘how.’”

Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Eija Mustonen
Retail price: €3,600, plus shipping
We need protection from heat, cold, dirt, shocks, eyes. We need protection when working in the garden, thinning the forest, tilling the soil, working on a building site, cooking in the kitchen, fighting, being in the sun, in heavy rain, meeting others. Eija Mustonen’s hammered and folded metal works can be seen as part of the body’s clothing, such as sleeves and skirts, or as a protective part of the body. The atmosphere of these works is a mixture of the historical and the contemporary. This piece is part of the exhibition Gardens and Shelters, integrated into the second Lisbon jewelry biennial.

Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the name for email)
Artist: Cindy Cheng
Retail price: US$375
This brooch is an almost-lucky charm—it was lucky, but life (in the form of two little worms) has started feasting on its magical fourth leaf. C’est la vie! Created by Cindy Cheng, a sculptor, papermaker, and jeweler who lives and works in Baltimore, MD, US, this piece is a playful reminder not to take things too seriously. Cheng received her BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MFA from MICA’s Mount Royal School of Art. She is driven by a thirst for new skills and grabs any opportunity to participate in workshops at craft schools including Penland, Haystack, Arrowmont, and the Baltimore Jewelry Center.

Gallery: Galleria Antonella Villanova, Florence, Italy (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Antonella Villanova (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Helen Britton
Retail price: €9,000
This necklace represents Helen Britton’s most iconic work, where her attention to structure and architecture is evident. “I am fascinated by structures and how the parts are connected to each other in a building,” says Britton.

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: Mariko Sumioka
Retail price: €1,220
Tokyo-based artist Mariko Sumioka creates sculptural jewelry evocative of both East and West. Her inspiration is deeply rooted in architecture and her love of containers. She is fascinated by architectural elements, and she developed her unique abstract aesthetic by combining precious metals with bamboo, enamel, patina, and antique kimonos. This collaging approach is an essential part of her creative process, along with a love for beautifully crafted details. The stories told inside these miniature precious compositions are unfinished—it is up to you, the wearer, to invent the rest.

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