October 2026, Part 1
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: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Meg Nash (click the name for email)
Artist: Heather Guidero
Retail price: US$1,695
A stunning lilac-colored druzy sparkles like no other. With handmade oxidized sterling silver tassels, this one-of-a-kind brooch has a great deal of movement. A bail is included, so this incredible piece can also be worn as a pendant.
- Seventy-nine jewelers contributed a charm to an oversized bracelet that celebrated 20 years of Sienna Patti. Heather Guidero was one of them. The bracelet is now in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Find out more about it here
Gallery: Wearable Art Museum (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click the director’s name for email)
Artist: 2Roses
Retail price: US$750
2Roses makes small, one-of-a-kind sculptures built to be worn anywhere on the body. Perch pairs two hollow forms covered in polymer clay tesserae, each meticulously cut and finished before it is set, so the surface shimmers as the wearer moves. One form is dark and closed, the other pale and open, tipped against the first and held in a permanent tension and balance. The wearer completes the composition by choosing where on the body the piece is worn and the angle at which it is positioned. Every placement recomposes the work by design.
- To see additional work by 2Roses and learn more about this creative duo, go here
- Get a glimpse of their studio here
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Becky Bliss
Retail price: Each NZ$750
Becky Bliss trained as a graphic designer before becoming a contemporary art jeweler. Her work is in a number of prestigious collections, and in 2015 and 2020 she was selected to exhibit in the Schmuck special exhibition, in Munich. “Play Time is a family that plays with color, forms, and gender, while also subverting through endless combinations to demonstrate the fluidity of youth and boundaryless expression of play. Anthropomorphizing the building blocks for child development and play, which were formalized by the founder of the kindergarten system, Friedrick Froebel, in the early 1800s through a series of ‘gifts,’ these works play with the shapes from gift#2—circles, squares, and triangles.”
- Check out an interview with Becky Bliss here
Gallery: Galerie Door, Nijmegen, Netherlands (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Daniel Kruger
Retail price: 2,000€
What do a shell, a gemstone, a piece of plastic, a relic, and a fetish have in common? In Daniel Kruger’s work, they can be combined into a single piece of jewelry. Kruger’s art jewelry is surprising, exuberant, sometimes mischievous, and always seductive. It beckons to you and invites you to linger and look a little longer. Kruger combines every conceivable material and technique—from gemstones to everyday objects, and from traditional textile work to refined metalwork. The sublime meets the mundane. The precious meets the cheap. The classical meets the kitsch. And, as a result, it all becomes more appealing. Kruger’s jewelry draws the eye to the neck, the chest, the hand, the ear. It magnifies, accentuates, seduces. For Kruger, a piece of jewelry can be an ornament, a talisman, a statement, or simply an irresistible object that brings you joy.
- Daniel Kruger served as a juror for the 2021 Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant. Find our interview with him here
- Susan Cummins interviewed him here
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Angela Giuliani
Retail price: AUS$8,615
More than the pieces … Zu design asked each artist to write about their work, their practice or their processes, creating a statement for stateMEANT, a contemporary jewelry exhibition that brings together bold, thoughtful work with something to say. The focus is on pieces that make a statement, whether that sits in the social, political, or environmental space, or speaks more quietly about materials, process, sustainability, art and craft, or the realities of everyday life. “My work explores structure, form, and geometry through the use of precious metals and gemstones,” states Angela Giuliani. “I’m drawn to clean lines, simple shapes, and the balance that geometric design creates. The making process is just as important as the finished piece. I enjoy seeing each design evolve through careful craftsmanship and attention to detail. I work primarily with sterling silver, yellow gold, and rose gold, appreciating the unique qualities each material brings. I use gemstones to add color and interest, selecting them to complement the design and become an integral part of each piece rather than simply decoration. My aim is to create jewelry that is thoughtful, well made, and timeless—pieces that people enjoy wearing and connect with for years to come.”
- Admire other works by Angela Giuliani here
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: Karin Seufert
Retail price: 1,700€ (excluding VAT)
Like emptiness, time is difficult to depict. It is complex and ever-changing; it is immaterial. The sky serves as a tool for orienting oneself in time. The sun defines the days, the moon marks longer phases, and the stars enable spatial navigation. Karin Seufert’s latest works portray these celestial bodies: the sun as a flickering yellow circle, the moon in its shifting phases, and the stars in multifaceted forms.
- Karin Seufert was a finalist for the 2017 Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant. To mark that achievement, Katja Toporski interviewed Seufert here
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Mia Chen (click the name for email)
Artist: Naomi Kurita
Retail price: US$4,752
For 30 years, Naomi Kurita has worked from three words: natural, simple, wearable. Born in Japan, she began making jewelry at a college in Denver, specialized in jewelry and metalwork at the Rhode Island School of Design, then refined her hand alongside craftsmen and designers in New York, working across traditional and modern styles. What she took from that range is restraint. This timeless necklace sets 18-karat yellow gold against sterling silver, two metals of different warmth, at a 15-inch length that sits close at the base of the neck. Her work has been shown in museums, galleries, and high-end stores across the US and Japan.
- The Rhode Island School of Design, which Naomi Kurita attended, is an AJF member school. Learn more about its jewelry and metalsmithing program here
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: J Diamond (click the name for email)
Artist: Liz Clark
Retail price: US$175
Liz Clark received her BFA in crafts/material studies from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006. She lives in Providence, RI, US, and maintains a metal studio where she creates art and jewelry part time. Clark exhibits her work through various galleries across the country.
- Liz Clark finds inspiration in flowers. Find out more about her and her work in this interview
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: Mei Fang Chiang
Retail price: £760 (without tax)
Mei Fang Chiang, based in Tainan, Taiwan, is an incredible art jeweler whose expertise is working uniquely with anodized aluminum, using techniques she developed in her studio that enable her to use color uniquely and beautifully. She is engaged with narratives based on the coexistence of nature and the man-made. An awarded artist whose work is in public collections including the Gold Museum in Taiwan. Her jewelry pieces are original, beautiful, and extremely light—and comfortable to wear, too.
- Mallory Weston also anodizes metal—but titanium rather than aluminum. She won the 2022 Young Artist Award. AJF celebrated with an interview, here.
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: Kerianne Quick
Retail price: US$650
Kerianne Quick’s research is rooted in craft practice as a cultural expression, paying particular attention to “material specificity,” a term they defined in their master’s thesis, which recognizes materials as active participants in the creation of meaning. Through their creative practice, Quick seeks to reveal overlooked and hidden stories through object-making, drawing upon the embedded histories of materials to coalesce meaning and create impact. Black-shrouded “mirrors” from the Nevermind series are made of leather and Plexiglas, referencing the mourning tradition of covering mirrors after a death. Rather than protecting the spirit of the deceased from its reflection, these obscured mirrors turn the gaze back on the living—materializing shame, culpability, despair, and helplessness.
- Brian Weissman and Erin S. Daily own and operate Brooklyn Metal Works. They were our guests on AJF Live. Watch the recording here
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: Catarina Silva
Retail price: 1,500€, plus shipping
This necklace is Catarina Silva’s most recent work for her solo exhibition Jardin d’agrément, part of the third Lisbon Jewellery Biennial program. Jardin d’agrément imagines a lush, utopian garden inspired by the gardens of paradise and the gardens of the gods found across cultures. Here, humans, animals, and plants coexist beyond hierarchy, in a shared ecology of reciprocity and wonder. Jewelry becomes a living constellation of symbols: apples, unicorns, flowers, birds, and Marian imagery evoke knowledge, care, fertility, and transformation. At the heart of the exhibition, the snake emerges as a guardian rather than a tempter—a symbol of wisdom, regeneration, and the continuous cycle of life. Rather than a lost Eden, Jardin d’agrément is a poetic fiction that invites us to imagine new ways of inhabiting the world, where coexistence is not an ideal, but a living practice.
- The endless mysteries of love, desire, and memory make up Once Upon a Time, a solo exhibition by Catarina Silva. The catalog for the show is here
Gallery: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kassadi Williams (click the name for email)
Artist: Emily Cobb
Retail price: US$1,480
Made by Emily Cobb for the 2026 ReJewelry exhibition by Radical Jewelry Makeover, hosted by Heidi Lowe Gallery, this piece is fabricated from assorted studs, ear nuts, and jump rings.
- Susie Ganch co-founded Radical Jewelry Makeover. She was a 2017 Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant Finalist. We interview her here
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: Manuel Vilhena
Retail price: 2,220€
“…Of all the dichotomies with which we have to coexist, perhaps the most evident is the precarious dance between life and death. This is the theme addressed in this work through the adventures of a notorious gang of evildoers who daily defy death and live with it as a partner: the pirates…” —Manuel Vilhena, 2026
- Learn more about Manuel Vilhena in this interview
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