July 2026, Part 1
These days, it sure would be nice to treat ourselves. It feels great to get a superb piece of art jewelry 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 wonderful 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: Kassadi Williams (click for email)
Artist: Stacey Lee Webber
Retail price: US$1,200
A solo exhibition of Stacey Lee Webber’s work is on display at Heidi Lowe Gallery. Webber manipulates currency to deliver impactful and culturally relevant statements.
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: Joanna Manousis
Retail price: US$995
Joanna Manousis combines real gemstones with printed illustrations suspended in glass to “emphasize decadence and grandiosity [in order to] to illuminate the superfluous nature of accumulated luxury when faced with our own impermanence.” This one-of-a-kind brooch is a perfect example of this concept. Manousis’s chosen medium is glass, as it contains contrasting qualities. It is both transparent and solid, simultaneously revealing and concealing.
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: Caio Mahin
Retail price: 520€, plus shipping
Caio Mahin is a queer Brazilian artist based in Lisbon, Portugal, and is presenting their first solo exhibition at Tereza Seabra Gallery through July 30, 2026. They majored in design at the Federal University of Pernambuco (Brazil), with a CAPES Sandwich scholarship at Rochester Institute of Technology (US), where they were first introduced to contemporary jewelry. After that, Mahin completed the jewelry course at ArCo (Portugal), having their thesis project supported by the Tereza Seabra Scholarship, with which they were invited to the 2021 Designers in Residence program at Emma Kreativzentrum Pforzheim. Approaching subjects such as gender, sexuality, spirituality, self-narrative, and psychoanalysis, Mahin has participated in many exhibitions throughout Europe and the US and is currently working in Lisbon by combining studio practice with third-party jewelry design.
“As a child, I suffered from what we called growing pains,” says the artist. “At night, when my legs ached, my grandmother would rub toothpaste onto them: a small domestic spell, activated by intention, applied to a body changing faster than it could understand. This exhibition begins from that strange intimacy between care and discomfort. Through jewelry, carved wood, metal, textile, cord, masks, flowers, butterflies, and bodies in disguise, Growing Pains looks at growth not as a clean movement forward, but as a disturbance: painful, tender, awkward, sexual, and unfinished. The works move between childhood making and traditional jewelry techniques, between delicacy and roughness, masculinity and femininity, beauty and embarrassment. A flower may return the gaze. A butterfly may become phallic. A mask may wait for a face. At its center is a question I keep returning to: What do we carry in order to become ourselves, and what do we eventually need to remove in order to heal?”
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: Viktor Kalinowski
Retail price: (Left) AUS$3,950, (right) AUS$1,875
Viktor Kalinowski uses traditional metalsmithing techniques to push materials to their limits. Combining stone, precious metal, and titanium, he creates miniature wearable sculptures in which the ring band becomes a plinth, elevating the sculptural elements. Balancing technical precision with a strong sense of form, his rings explore the relationship between jewelry, object, and sculpture.
Gallery: InterFusion Art, Santa Fe, NM, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Team (click for email)
Artist: Emiko Oye
Retail price: US$281
This bracelet turns repurposed LEGO® into bold, joyful color you can wear every day, with a graphic rhythm that reads instantly on the wrist and in photos. It’s a smart entry point into Emiko Oye’s widely recognized LEGO® jewelry practice, which has been featured in museum exhibitions and the international press, making this piece both fun and highly collectible for AJF’s audience.
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: Thea Izzi
Retail price: US$9,550. The artist is battling breast cancer for a second time. 100% of this sale will go directly to her.
This Fan Spin Wheel Necklace is hand-crafted from sterling silver/22-karat gold bimetal (gold interior), connected with 14-karat gold rivets, and it has an easy-to-use clasp fastener. An award-winning jeweler, Izzi has been designing and creating her signature jewelry for 25 years. She’s a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA 1991). In addition to creating her own signature collection she has also designed jewelry for well-known brands Isaac Mizrahi and Swarovski, and been featured in museums and galleries across the United States, including Shaw Contemporary, RISD Works, and Sculpture To Wear. “I want my jewelry to inspire courage, beauty, and joy in the women who wear it,” she says.
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: Gabriela Horvat
Retail price: US$680
Some pieces carry the texture of the earth itself. Gabriela Horvat’s contemporary jewelry begins with a hand-dyed coiling and basket-weaving technique, working silk thread and copper together with semiprecious stones and found objects. The result is wearable, tactile, and quietly luminous. Horvat creates alongside her mother, artist Paula Dipierro—a designer-and-artist pairing who have shown work in major international exhibitions and fairs. Together they source noble materials chosen for their tones and their stories, building each piece by hand as one-of-a-kind works of art. Commissions may be available.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Ross Malcolm
Retail price: Each NZ$255
These beautiful pieces are a continuation of Ross Malcolm’s fascination with his local flora and fauna. “I will pick anything up that’s on the ground, on a footpath, anything that takes my eye. The ideas often start from these walks … then I think: What if? What if I join this to that? How can I present this in a way that may eventually become something that someone will like?” Although the inspiration is natural, the materials are often anything but. Pushing the boundaries of his chosen materials, often not traditionally associated with jewelry-making, is where Malcolm’s passion lies. He currently lives and works in the South Island of New Zealand.
Gallery: Espace Borax, Vevey, Switzerland (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Nicolas Christol (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Nicolas Christol
Retail price: 1,100€
“Anthropocene” refers to a new era in which humans have become a “geological force.” The term is, however, subject to criticism, as it places the responsibility for the destruction of the planet on the human species instead of on the capitalist system. An alternative term has been proposed since the 1970s: Molysmocene, the geological age of waste. It symbolically suggests that in the future archaeologists will uncover not amber or animal fossils but clumps of plastic waste.
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: Danni Schwaag
Retail price: 540€ (excluding VAT)
For Danni Schwaag, the appeal lies in making, in trying things out, experimenting with form, color, and material. She has to play, to play with the material. Schwaag’s ongoing work was developed during an artist residency at the Jakob Bengel Foundation and the Idar-Oberstein University of Applied Sciences. The main material is galalith, which she combines with enamel, copper, and silver.
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: Rachel Martino
Retail price: US$1,700
Rachel Martino is a maker and fabricator born and raised in New York, and currently based in Baltimore, MD. Of this work, she says, “Jewelry can immortalize our most intimate memories. This chain is an incarnation of a road trip across the southwest United States. The lines imitate striations in rock, serving as a path to follow like the long stretches of highway across the desert.” In June 2025, Martino was an artist-in-residence at the Baltimore Jewelry Center.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Björkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Réka Lőrincz
Retail price: US$2,900
Réka Lőrincz’s works are humorous and playful and at the same time lead to thought paths of value. The objects make us wonder how things are related. Jewelry art is a unique medium to illustrate tricky systems. The artist’s cross-border examinations and illustrations of our society reorganize function, highlight the hidden, and help us along the way, making the invisible become visible and the false become reality. Lőrincz is an active jewelry artist from Budapest.
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