December 2025, 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: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Heidi Lowe or Kassadi Williams (click the names for email)
Artist: Wesley Glebe
Retail price: US$2,500
Wesley Glebe is a prolific jeweler based in State College, PA, US. He began working with metal at the young age of 11, crafting his first ring from a chunk of bronze, igniting a lifelong devotion to his craft. Alongside his wife, Christine Bailey, he operates Wes&Gold—a vibrant studio calling to those seeking unique, meticulously crafted jewelry pieces. While his signature rings are a fundamental part of his collection, he also explores other mediums, including sculpture, carving, drawing, painting, and even crafting buttons. As a true artisan, Glebe approaches his work with profound curiosity and an unwavering desire to discover new ideas and techniques. Each piece he creates reflects his continuous investigation into form, function, and aesthetics, showcasing him as not only a talented craftsman but also an innovator with an innate passion for creation.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Caroline Broadhead
Retail price: 6,400€
This necklace is made of small glass beads that are threaded with thin thread into links which together form a chain. For more than 50 years, Caroline Broadhead has been concerned with objects that meet and interact with the body. Classical jewelry and materials inspire her, and the jewelry pieces she makes become collectors’ items. Public collections that hold examples of her work include the Dallas Museum of Arts; the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam); the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Broadhead held the positions of Jewellery and Textiles Programme Director and BA Jewellery Design Course Leader for nearly 10 years at Central Saint Martins, London, until her retirement in 2018; she is now professor emerita. Broadhead gave a lecture at the Pinakothek, in Munich, during Schmuck 2025, and was one of the finalists of the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize 2025.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Chris Charteris
Retail price: NZ$2,200
Chris Charteris has been a prolific maker of jewelry as well as sculpture since the mid-1980s. Of Kiribati and Fijian heritage, his practice has been influenced by his early training as a carver. Polynesian forms, traditional tools, ceremonial objects, patterns, taonga, and body adornment are natural sources of contemplation and design. “My main focus with my carving,” he states, “is that I create work which is unique to myself, which has qualities of the old world and the new. There are aspects of my work that go beyond interpretation; this is the realm of feeling where the material itself expresses its own life energy. A primary source for my creativity comes from the love for the materials I use. I have a deep connection with them. When there is a relationship, nature reveals her secrets, and you are able to develop an understanding of things you otherwise might not be open to. When it comes to my work there is no single meaning I can identify; the forms and patterns I use can and do have multiple layers. Then it is the viewer’s journey and their navigation.”
Gallery: Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Zoe Ariyama (click the name for email)
Artist: Erin S. Daily
Retail price: US$530
This necklace, by artist Erin S. Daily, explores the way precious materials imbue devotional objects with reverence. The crystal is almost bodily in form, and by affixing it to woven silver and reflective gold the necklace shares a visual relationship to the scapular. Created for New York City Jewelry Week 2025, this piece is one of two necklaces made by Daily that were on view at Brooklyn Metal Works’s jewelry and object gallery, Specific Gravity. Daily is the co-founder of Brooklyn Metal Works. She holds an MFA in metal from SUNY New Paltz and has taught extensively at schools across the Northeast, while also exhibiting nationally and internationally.
Gallery: Ornamentum, Hudson, NY US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Stefan Friedemann (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: David Bielander
Retail price: US$2,050
For Ornamentum’s Holiday Earring Show, David Bielander has created Cardboard Hearts. Completely hand-constructed, there is no paper involved. Bielander’s Cardboard series can be counted among the most significant jewelry designs of our lifetime.
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: Florian Weichsberger
Retail price: 900€
Florian Weichsberger spends a lot of time thinking about the relationship between us and different objects. In addition to the practical function, there is often an emotional or spiritual connection to them. We fill an object with our wishes and hopes—it should bring us luck, the fulfilment of our dreams, or healing. In his latest body of work, Weichsberger explores everyday objects. Things that are all around us and that we have become so used to that we no longer consciously notice them, but that have become an integral part of our everyday lives. Weichsberger uses their characteristics to incorporate symbols or messages. The former function is removed and a new one is added, honoring the object and giving it a new reason to be close to us or even on us.
Gallery: Galerie MiniMasterpiece, Paris, France (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Esther de Beaucé (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost
Retail price: 2,400€, plus VAT
With her Plis jewelry collection, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost is pursuing a long-standing obsession: diverting industrial objects into aesthetic, sensitive, domestic, and wearable motifs. At the heart of this project is a material that has become emblematic of her world: pleated metal mesh. Conceived for technical uses—filters or industrial assemblies—she uses it to invent other applications, other forms—a candlestick, a lamp, a tube, a candle-holder. And, today, a jewel. The architect, designer, and scenographer began her career with Zaha Hadid Architects before joining Dominique Perrault Architecture, in 1989. Since then, she has supported the architect’s design work as art director and designer, creating fittings, furniture, and lighting.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the name for email)
Artist: Eva Burton
Retail price: US$445
A brand-new artist represented by Pistachios, Eva Burton carves wood by hand to create unconventional, bold jewelry that celebrates joy and empowerment. Color is a key component to the work, as unexpected combinations add an element of playfulness. This pair of statement earrings combines wood, paint, sterling silver, and Florentine paper for an eccentric look that will be the center of attention.
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: Julia Harrison
Retail price: US$350
This piece is so unique and perfect to wear for your upcoming holiday events!
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: Iris Bodemer
Retail price: 5,905€
This piece belongs to the Notes group, from 2016. After a major museum exhibition in 2013, Bodemer had to rearrange herself and find new paths. Ideas often remain untouched or wait until they are fully thought out. Approaches remain in the mind and capture fleeting thoughts. Small notes from everyday life were thus worked through, a stack of disordered pieces of paper with notes. A good opportunity for a transition to something new.
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: Suna Bonometti
Retail price: US$395
Suna Bonometti is a jeweler and artist based in New York City. Bonometti’s jewelry is a composition of primary forms carefully assembled to create enduring designs. Each design is a portal of memories for the person who chooses to wear them. The artist’s focus is on making long-lasting objects that will bring joy. She works primarily in jewelry, but has also made forays into the design of furniture, lighting, painting, tattooing, and many other artistic expressions.
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: Tarja Tuupanen
Retail price: 1,107€ for one, or 1,968€ for the pair
“As wondrous as the distant stars of the universe are the treasures deep within the Earth,” states Tarja Tuupanen. These pieces are part of a series presented for the exhibition Rings of Saturn 9/12 (Sagittarius). For millennia, the zodiac has been a mirror in the sky that reflects human characteristics, our charm, and our deep connection with the cosmos.
Inspired by the 12 constellations that mark the astrological cycle, the gallery invited artists brought together by the chance of being born under the same zodiac sign for group exhibitions spread over 12 months. In a cycle held between March 2025 and February 2026, each exhibition explores the essence of a sign, translated through art, symbolism, and spirituality, creating a dialogue between the astrological universe and human expressions.
Astrological signs have fascinated and inspired cultures around the world, symbolizing the forces that connect us to the universe and powerful psychological archetypes that continue to raise questions in us, explain curators Marta Costa Reis and Catarina Silva. More than superstition, they wanted to use the language of astrology to provoke artistic acts that connect us to what transcends us, asking the guest artists to reflect on the mystery of the human condition. The idea was to create moments of exploration of the present time, a time of crisis in which it is normal to seek to understand the inexplicable. A time of doubt in which we can aspire to poetry and beauty. The sky has always had this effect of reconnecting us to the rhythm of the world and inspiring us to go further. We are made of stardust.
Gallery: Wearable Art Museum (click the institution’s name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click the director’s name for email)
Artist: Teri Brudnak
Retail price: US$4,800
As the 21st century explodes in so many ways, artists feel compelled to sound the alarm. Red Alert is a sculptural neckpiece that flashes red light as a serious warning. The design elements echo science fiction film props from the mid-20th century. The design is futuristic, and made by hand of recycled materials. It is art jewelry of this time, and impossible to ignore.
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: Tanel Veenre
Retail price: GBP£3,870, plus VAT
Each of Tanel Veenre’s pieces, he confesses, is an invitation to explore the mysteries of existence, to find beauty in the unknown, and to embrace the interconnectedness of all things. For Veenre, art is a way to communicate ideas and evoke connections, using jewelry as a powerful medium of personal and cultural expression. Veenre’s jewelry belongs to public collections including the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Estonian National Museum, Estonian History Museum, CODA Museum (Netherlands), Swiss National Museum, Rotasa Collection (US), Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Arts and Design (New York), and Espace Solidor Museum of Contemporary Jewellery (France).
Gallery: Mobilia Gallery, Cambridge, MA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Libby Cooper and Jo Anne Cooper (click the gallerists’ names for email)
Artist: Asagi Maeda
Retail price: US$16,000
Wear a dream, a city, a story—Asagi Maeda meticulously constructs sculptures that are also jewelry. Fashioned from wood, Plexiglas, resin, enamel, silver, gold, and semiprecious and precious stones, the work is engraved and painted by the artist, with thoughtful narratives about family and society. Maeda’s work is held in important public collections including The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens (Delray Beach, Florida); Museum of Arts and Design (New York City); and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts).
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