August 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: 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: Tove Knuts
Retail price: US$830
The Swedish artist Tove Knuts is known for her soft organic and colorful shapes. Her work is about value, craft, and traditions. This brooch is the result of a project that started in her late father’s workshop. Knuts has used her father’s materials and unfinished pieces, and combined them with her own shapes and colors. It is a dialogue between the two of them, where they meet in their common history and craft tradition while also reflecting the differences and contrasts in material and expression.
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: Erica Bello
Retail price: US$450
With an interest in the reinterpretation of classic iconography, Erica Bello explores the connection between ancient and contemporary objects. Plastic bags have become a ubiquitous part of our culture, acting as an icon for the 21st century. To memorialize the “thank you” bags often found in bodegas and convenience stores, Bello carved its image into the surface of an onyx, mimicking the intaglio carvings of ancient Rome.
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: Veronika Fabian
Retail price: €4,590
Much like amulets imbued with mystical significance, these pieces evoke a sense of empowerment for their wearer. Through this work, Veronika Fabian aims to visually articulate the complexities of modern existence, presenting oversized hooks as tangible manifestations of power amidst shifting landscapes.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Chloe Le Pichon (click the name for email)
Artist: Seth Michael Carlson
Retail price: US $1,925
These stunning earrings hand-fabricated with 18-karat yellow gold and beryl speak of old-world glamour with an organic twist. These earrings can dress down or dress up. Exquisitely fabricated from sustainable and ethically sourced materials.
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 Lehtinen
Retail price: US$4,000
Helena Lehtinen describes her work as trying to find meaning in the meaninglessness. This is not just a typical Finnish mentality but a characteristic, human, and humorous way of working by one of Finland’s most active and respected jewelry artists. With great commitment and characteristic visual language, she has taken her place on the international stage, and her work has a high collector’s value.
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: Danielle Barrie
Retail price: AUS$820
Danielle Barrie has used tiny semiprecious gemstones, riveted to the surface of sterling silver shapes, to create a cascade of color on these asymmetrical earrings. This series is a part of Zu, Me & JCB, an exhibition that coincides with SALA – South Australia Living Artists month, and with Zu design & Jane Bowden, which is currently showing at JamFactory, in Gallery Two. Zu design has been reminiscing, looking at all the 332 makers who have exhibited and sold work through their gallery space over the past 27 years. Danielle is one of the people who have made Zu design the gallery that it is today.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team’s name for email)
Artist: Huiyu Chiu
Retail price: US$1,995
This lengthy asymmetrical necklace balances the floral and feminine with a dark, edgy feel. Made entirely out of oxidized sterling silver, each component is handmade with impeccable craftsmanship.
Gallery: Ornamentum, Hudson, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Stefan Friedemann (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Winnie Cheung
Retail price: US$150
Winnie Cheung graduated in 2023 with an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Since that time, Cheung has returned to China to build up a studio and continue her explorations in the medium—in particular a body of work titled Cloud Chasing, which sees Cheung shredding paper with text to use as the basis for creating wearable forms, extremely light yet reminiscent of marble.
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: Felicia Mülbaier
Retail price: €2,300
“I wish you could see these fabulous pieces in real life: Felica Mülbaier’s art jewelry pieces, which I would even call ‘sculpture’ or ‘wearable poetry,’” says gallerist Doreen Timmers. This wonderful necklace, titled In Search of the Summer Bird, is Mülbaier’s final piece made of lapis lazuli, the royal blue gemstone. With endless grinding and filing, Mülbaier transforms the hard, cold stone into a window: fragile, open, and narrative.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Nadene Carr
Retail price: Necklace, NZ$450
Nadene Carr graduated from Manukau School of Visual Arts in 2009 with a BVA, majoring in jewelry. “My work is an ongoing interrogation of the dynamic relationship between the beautiful and ugly,” says the maker. “The space between the points of beauty and ugly is more interesting to me than the destination at either end of the binary. I am particularly interested in pushing the aesthetic elements of what constitutes the beautiful and the ugly and investigating the provocative and challenging concepts that arise: concepts of culture, gender, age, taste, and appropriation. A playful balance and equilibrium arrive through material interrogations of the relationship between opposing forces.” Carr’s most recent work repurposes discarded canvas paintings braced with welded steel.
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: Earl Pardon
Retail price: US$975
An early example of Earl Pardon’s modernist jewelry, circa 1970s, when Pardon (1926–1991) created these mural-like sculptured jewels, applying gold to silver surfaces in abstract motifs.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Bryan Parnham
Retail price: US$800
Constantly reflecting on his work and his choice of artistic disciplines, Bryan Parnham successfully ventured into the world of jewelry, winning AJF’s 2024 Young Artist Award. He has developed a photoengraving technique that enables him to explore different notions related to photography, another of his passions. More specifically, these pieces are, in part, a reaction to ideas of photo theory written by thinkers. For example, Barthes describes the interpretation of a photograph in terms of “studium”—the interest of the photo in relation to the culture of the viewer—and “punctum”—the impregnable element that touches the viewer. Parnham experimentally presents the “punctum” dissociated from the “stadium.” He offers a detail, here in the form of a symbol, without the wider context of a photograph. Once the punctum has been worn, the context becomes the wearer. The wearer then becomes his own studium, his own intentional context.
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: Ana Margarida Carvalho
Retail price: Each, €100, plus shipping
Ana Margarida Carvalho is a Portuguese jeweler with a very playful approach to jewelry-making. In this series she explores the tensions of metal, presenting a group of colorful pins. They’re very easy-to-wear pieces for your everyday wardrobe!
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