December 2024, Part 2
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: In The Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Aminata Conteh (click the name for email)
Artist: Vershali Jain
Retail price: US$220
This work celebrates the material mess that is left after opening a gift. Inspired by her childhood collection of leftover ribbons and gift papers, Knotty Bow is a playful yet delicate composition. It’s presented as a part of Bows, a group exhibition at Brooklyn Metal Works, on view December 7–January 26, 2025.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Zachery Lechtenberg
Retail price: €500
Enamel has been used since the Byzantine era to create religious icons, and the time-consuming and technically complicated craft is often associated with historical motifs and jewelry. Zachery Lechtenberg uses the technique to create something completely different. This brooch is a three-dimensional drawing with attitude and humor, alive here and now.
Gallery: Aaron Faber Gallery (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Patricia Kiley Faber (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Art Smith
Retail price: US$2,950
Art Smith (1917–1982) is a renowned NYC Modernist jeweler whose Greenwich Village store and studio was a center for modern design and hip culture from the late 1940s to the 1970s. His work is in the Brooklyn Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among many other leading institutions.
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: Verena Sieber-Fuchs
Retail price: €600, plus shipping
Verena Sieber-Fuchs is an artist from Switzerland based in Zurich. She is a master of crocheting her everyday life. She is a furious collector of everything that surrounds her, from medicine blisters to orange paper, stamps, beads, etc. Everything is ritualistically kept with care to speak about pleasure, sorrows, or politics. It’s a game with all kinds of materials, and—above all—with no precious ones to make them precious. This piece is part of her solo exhibition at Galeria Tereza Seabra, The Year of the Revolution.
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: Morgan Hill
Retail price: US$140
Morgan Hill is a sculptor and jewelry designer whose work draws on a wide range of aesthetic and conceptual influences, from 90s pop culture, cult films, and costume design to her Southern, Christian upbringing and experiences as the only female child in an extended family of farmers in Arkansas. Her jewelry brand, Bad Habits by Morgan Hill, celebrates the pleasure of excess and indulged desires. Her work is carried in galleries across the US and internationally. She creates her work at Treats Studios, in Spruce Pine, NC, US, a studio cooperative she co-founded.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, SA, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Kath Inglis
Retail price: AUS$900
The Haliptilon roseum brooch is inspired by its namesake, a bushy and densely branched red algae. Kath Inglis has continued to develop her work through her extensive close-up studies of marine algae. These studies, often on a microscopic level, inform both color and form. The colors are created by dying and joining layers of PVC, giving the pieces a glow as the light passes through them. Inglis hand-carves the detailed forms.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team’s name for email)
Artist: Hanna Liljenberg
Retail price: US$1,210
Made with lacquered paper, this organic brooch by Hanna Liljenberg has craftsmanship that is unparalleled. Despite the large size of this wearable work of art, it is incredibly lightweight. This would be the perfect accent to any winter outfit.
Gallery: Galerie Door, Mariaheide, the Netherlands (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Felicia Mülbaier
Retail price: €2,400
Felicia Mülbaier creates wearable poetry. With endless carving, she transforms hard, cold stone into a window: fragile, open, and narrative. This brooch is titled über den Beginn, which means “about the beginning.” Mülbaier won the 2024 Staatspreis Baden-Württemberg (Germany).
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: Lucie Houdkova
Retail price: €615
Lucie Houdkova continues to surprise us with her works in paper. Now it’s earrings that are so light and at the same time so resistant and so magnificently crafted, with their silver structure that always keeps them in their original shape. And always a palette of warm colors, ocher with nuances of red. These shades refer to the primordial tones of papyrus and parchment, once also noble materials to be enriched in ceremonial and symbolic jewelry.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Chloë Le Pichon (click the name for email)
Artist: Timo Krapf
Retail price: $1,980
The simplicity and classic design of this bracelet is both timeless and modern. The black diamonds have a beautiful sparkle to them and look lovely nestled in the sterling silver.
Gallery: ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Atinuj Tantivit (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Beppe Kessler
Retail price: €1,400
Beppe Kessler, a two-time recipient of the prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize, is celebrated for her unique wearable art pieces, which weave storytelling into her innovative use of collage. By combining various found objects, she creates one-of-a-kind pieces that resonate with meaning and personal expression. Her Four Seasons brooch, for instance, is a poetic collage that effortlessly merges art and adornment, and is designed to be both striking and wearable. This distinctive piece bears Kessler’s unmistakable artistic signature, making it instantly recognizable as her own.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Sondra Sherman
Retail price: US$3,000
This pendant belongs to the new body of work, The Gemstone Apothecary, which weaves together themes of science, superstition, and the symbolic language of jewelry. The inspiration stems from a residency at Trier University Idar-Oberstein Campus. Immersed in the gemstone industry, which defines the city, Sondra Sherman sought to respond to the unique environment while continuing to explore her ongoing interest in “process as metaphor” and jewelry’s psychological and social roles. Though initially struggling to find a connection, Sherman became intrigued by the healing stones sold in local tourist shops. Through this lens, the healing stones became a new symbol within the work. The lilac flowers printed on the aluminum are Crocus sativus, which are used as an herbal medicine in various diseases and health problems.
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