August 2025, Part 2
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: 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: £8,160
With Autumn Leaf, Yeena Yoon continues her exploration of modularity and transformation. This unique piece shifts between brooch and pendant, inviting multiple ways of wearing. Carved from white jade, the form is guided by a natural brown inclusion in the stone, which becomes the compositional framework for a geometric element of red jasper. Set in 14-karat gold, the piece is a quiet study in material-led practice and structural clarity. Rooted in her background as an architect, Yoon brings a spatial and material sensibility to each piece she creates. Her jewelry is both sculptural and intimate, shaped by deep technical skill and a commitment to traditional goldsmithing and lapidary arts.
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: Sara Barbanti
Retail price: €510
This ring by Sara Barbanti, who was born in Italy in 1991, embodies her poetic exploration of transformation and contrast. Designed to be worn with or without its wooden element, it shifts in form and meaning—inviting personal interpretation. The union of metal and natural material reflects Barbanti’s fascination with dialogue between opposites: solid and fragile, refined and raw. Rooted in her intuitive process, the ring becomes a quiet meditation on impermanence, adaptability, and the beauty of change.
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: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the name for email)
Artist: Kristine Bolhuis
Retail price: US$330
These earrings have multiple joints that allow them to move. They shift quite a lot in shape, so it’s like you can have a new pair of earrings every day, and you can even wear them together in different positioning!
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: Margo Csipő
Retail price: US$150
Margo Csipő (US) is a jeweler, illustrator, and educator based in Baltimore, where she teaches at the Baltimore Jewelry Center. Her practice investigates jewelry and masks as vessels to be emptied and filled by both creator and wearer, physically and metaphorically. Csipő’s work is fabrication-intensive and highly illustrative, employing the ancient scrimshaw technique, in which images are meticulously scribed or engraved into materials such as mother-of-pearl, bone, and amber. Motifs of cups, hands, insects, rocks, mazes, and drips frequently appear in Csipő’s work, and the artist notes that these symbols “suggest something held or acts of gain and loss.” Through sequential imagery, Csipő explores themes of personal myth and transformation.
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: 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: Rebecca Tanda
Retail price: US$2,200
The artist Rebecca Tanda, who’s based in Germany, utilizes laboratory glass and sterling silver to create bespoke statement pieces. Combining traditional flameworking and pâte-de-verre glass techniques, Tanda is able to reimagine glass as “something that can hold stories and ideas … where they can rest until they are ready to be fully expressed … offering this transitional, liminal space.” Tanda will be featured in Pistachios’s upcoming exhibition, Things Unsaid, which will be on display at the gallery August 14–October 26, 2025, before traveling to Munich Jewellery Week in 2026.
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: Ruudt Peters
Retail price: 4,360€
Ruudt Peters is one of the protagonists of art jewelry, and his work can be found in numerous private and public collections. With each new series of work, Peters seeks to unravel the mysteries of the world. In this marvelous brooch, SEFIROTH—Thanos, we can discern his interest in Kabbalah in the silver structure representing the Tree of Life. The glasswork bulbs curl around it like the alembics of an alchemist discovering the laws of Mother Nature. This brooch truly is a masterpiece of craftsmanship entwined with ancient knowledge and mystic beliefs. Now for sale at Galerie Door.
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: Julia Obermaier
Retail price: €1230€, plus shipping
Julia Obermaier presents a new body of work made especially for the exhibition Rings of Saturn 5/12 (Leo).
Eyes up the sky
The presence fades away
Flowing between heaven and dream
Losing their thoughts
But a memory of long forgotten
Drifting in a quiet whisper of light
Silence zooming out – here and now – from above.
—J.Ob.
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: €800
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: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Eric Loubser
Retail price: €1,700
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.
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