July 2026, Part 2
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: 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$2,500
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.
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: 1,000€ (excluding VAT)
In the brooch Allowed?, the material—galalith—plays a lead character. The work refers to its qualities, and the artist draws parallels to her own state of being: the recurring questioning of artistic creation, enduring crises, and finding meaning. Accepting, getting stuck, wriggling out, and finding new paths.
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: 900€
Lead and gold are simultaneously symbols of alchemical self-transformation and of capitalism’s extraction of value from both land and bodies. A “less-lethal” police plastic bullet was cast in lead and subsequently blown apart with black powder. The resulting brooch is heavy and symbolically toxic, yet secured by a gold pin. “To me,” states Nicolas Christol, the artist, “jewelry is not just about beauty, memories, or poetry. Art jewelry is about commodities, class, privilege, confrontation, and changes.”
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Lisa Walker
Retail price: NZ$3,670
The following quote by Kerianne Quick (assistant professor of jewelry and metalsmithing at San Diego State University) aptly sums up Lisa Walker’s practice: “What I find most important is Lisa’s exploration of the cultural function of jewelry, and a revitalization of it to be relevant to now. Walker’s jewelry is the extreme version of the most personal contemporary appurtenance. It is the physical manifestation of the mental and virtual baggage of living now. It is a stream-of-consciousness record of the whims and obsessions of an over-mediafied, production-inundated, anxious global culture. If our collective subconscious brain could turn its pockets inside out, showing the world what we are really made of, it would look like Lisa’s work.” Dirk’s Shoes underlines the above statement. Walker currently lives and works in Wellington, New Zealand.
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: Kelly Ann Temple
Retail price: US$144
Kelly Ann Temple is an artist, jeweler, and educator who is interested in our relationship with medical interventions. She is both fascinated by, and fearful of, the body’s ability to adapt, accept, reject, and repair. She works in materials and forms that reframe her thoughts about the disparate connections between the organic and inorganic, the living and non-living, the human and machine. Her work addresses ideas of surface, acceptance, and transformation as it captures intimate moments where the biological and mechanical touch. She is the head of jewelry and metalsmithing at the University of Central Oklahoma as associate professor. She received her MFA at San Diego State University in jewelry + metalsmithing.
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$550
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: 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: 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$262
Blackstar Slopes packs Emiko Oye’s signature LEGO® language into a sleek, wearable charm bracelet, with angled black and color accents that feel both graphic and quietly punk. It’s an easy, everyday piece that still carries the edge and playfulness that have made Emiko’s LEGO® jewelry a favorite in museum shows and the international press—perfect for AJF members who want a small, strong statement from a widely recognized artist.
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: Each AUS$780
These blackened Corten steel brooches by Viktor Kalinowski possess an unexpected softness. Gentle folds pleat the thin metal into a three-dimensional landscape form, creating works that feel both delicate and sculptural. The subtle undulations of the surface catch light and shadow.
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: 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: YeJin Choi
Retail price: US$545
Handmade with polystyrene plastic, this incredible brooch is light as air, both visually and physically. The material changes from the moment heat is applied, which leads to somewhat unexpected results. “Wrinkles and curves, flexible surfaces, and unexpected contractions are signs of the material’s unique voice,” says the artist. This balance of chaos and control is central to Choi’s artistic practice.
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.
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