June 2026, 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: 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: Sofia Björkman
Retail price: US$735
Made with PLA, a bioplastic derived from fermented corn starch, this one-of-a-kind brooch by Sofia Björkman is a three-dimensional drawing. A fresh take on traditional landscape paintings, Björkman’s wearable works of art are lightweight and flexible. Her work is on view at Pistachios as part of the exhibition Mystic Meadows, alongside collections from Märta Mattsson, Hanna Liljenberg, and Karin Roy Andersson.
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 Jean Conroy
Retail price: US$80
Kelly Jean Conroy was born in Sheboygan, WI, US, and grew up in New England. Now based in Holliston, MA, US, she uses mother-of-pearl and gemstones to make jewelry focused on life cycles in nature. Conroy holds degrees in art education and painting, as well as in jewelry metals, and she sees her art jewelry as layered paintings—collages with dimensional elements that allude to stories about loss, growth, and the beauty of life. Imagery, color, and layers are constants in her work, which features laser etchings of either actual flower silhouettes from her walks in nature or imagery from vintage botanical illustrations.
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: Walid Akkad
Retail price: 3,200€ (VAT not included)
Walid Akkad is a remarkable Franco-Lebanese jewelry designer. As a gesture of friendship, he occasionally designs an exclusive piece for MiniMasterpiece gallery. Here is his latest creation, the Bull bracelet, in brushed silver and vermeil. A delicate design that evokes both the bull and the plant world.
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: 1,145€, plus shipping
“For this series,” states Caio Mahin, “I return to the sign of Libra through its planetary ruler, Venus—a figure who has long shaped ideals of beauty, desire, and harmony. I approach her not as a distant goddess, but as an intimate influence, questioning how her presence unsettles the boundaries of gender and identity, especially in the experience of being socialized as a man while marked by a Venusian sensibility. The works navigate beauty as both mask and vulnerability. O falo é o palhaço, a papier-mâché child’s face with an exaggerated nose, points to the absurdities of power and performance embedded in masculine symbols. A set of silver rings allows shifting combinations of bodies—breasts, chest, penis, vagina—an invitation to play with form while dissolving rigid binaries. Other pieces lean into softness, fragility, and chance. Ribbons that resist the rigidity of chains, stones that carry the memory of waves, fossils that collapse time into ornament—all become unstable vessels for Venus’s influence. Here, beauty is not an ideal to be attained, but a disquieting presence: playful and grotesque, tender and cutting. It arrives to disarm, and in its wake leaves only the raw strength of vulnerability.”
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: Norman Weber
Retail price: 5,040€
“Jewelry,” states Norman Weber, “often feels like an indecent medium, exploring the staging of people and objects like no other. Living and working in Kaufbeuren is central to my Bijou series. The Neugablonz district, once a post-war hub for costume jewelry, deeply inspires my work. My pieces celebrate the ambiguity of pomp and splendor, focusing on the allure of the ‘fake.’ I am particularly fascinated by the intricate craftsmanship and technical potential inherent in costume jewelry production, using these elements to question the boundaries between value and artifice.”
Gallery: InterFusion Art, Santa Fe, NM, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Team (click the team’s name for email)
Artist: Susan Mahlstedt
Retail price: US$1,775
Susan Mahlstedt’s Bright Sand Dollar with Waves Pendant distills the artist’s refined, nature-based language into a pendant of exceptional craftsmanship and balance. Depletion-gilded sterling silver, oxidized edges, and 18-karat gold details create luminous contrast, while the hand-textured center and flowing wires evoke the movement of tide and sand. Three natural diamonds add a quiet shimmer, reinforcing the piece’s elegance without overpowering its form. Mahlstedt’s reputation for precise metalwork and sculptural wearability is evident here, making this pendant both a wearable object and a small-scale work of art. It is poised, tactile, and distinctly collectible.
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: Marne Ryan
Retail price: US$6,160
Marne Ryan has been refining her signature metalworking process since 1976. For Pendant 59, from the Geoscape Series, she fuses thin layers of 24-, 22-, and 18-karat gold with sterling silver using heat to create sheet metal with a fabric-like, textured surface—a technique that makes each piece entirely unrepeatable. The layering of high-karat golds with silver produces subtle shifts in color and depth that only reveal themselves up close. Paired with schist, pyrite, and diamond, the materials feel both geological and intimate. Ryan designs her work to accompany life’s significant moments, making this pendant a meaningful and lasting addition to any collection.
Gallery: Galerie Door, Nijmegen, Netherlands (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Doreen Timmers (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Elena Gorbunova
Retail price: 1,100€
Elena Gorbunova’s artistic practice focuses on upcycling polypropylene and other plastics. With love and many hours of intense work with this mass-produced material, Gorbunova transforms this all-too-common material into beautiful and super-lightweight wearable art objects. In her new series, At the Cellular, Gorbunova explores the idea of identity on a microscopic level. This is shown both in the highly precise way of working and in the cell-like structure with which she composes her art jewelry. These earrings display a wonderful pattern of extremely thinly cut moss agates. Glamour at various levels. A true beauty that is worth being worn and cherished forever. Gorbunova studied with Professor Theo Smeets at Hochschule Trier’s department of gemstone and jewelry design, in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Her work can be found in many private collections and in the Dallas Museum of Art (US), collection Deedie Potter Rose.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Kath Inglis
Retail price: NZ$355
Kath Inglis is a material-based maker who transforms seemingly ordinary polyvinyl chloride (PVC) sheet plastic into vividly colored and intricately detailed wearable objects. Eschewing expensive gemstones and metals in favor of this prosaic material, Inglis uses a variety of hand-driven techniques to transform the sleek, clear PVC into highly textured surfaces that glitter with a play of light and reflection. In her highly innovative practice, Inglis manipulates flexible PVC sheet through the simple processes of hand dyeing, cutting, carving, and adding layers/components through heat fusing to elevate a mundane material into the precious. “I love plastic,” she states. “It is an incredible contemporary material that can achieve amazing things. Like other ‘precious materials,’ it needs to be used with consideration and cared for.”
Gallery: In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metalworks, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Zoe Ariyama (click the name for email)
Artist: Kathleen King
Retail price: US$4,936
This one-of-a-kind necklace by Kathleen King features 18 sterling silver “giving hands” set with moonstone and labradorite and finished with a sulfur patina. This work will be featured in the exhibition Here, There, and Everywhere, at Brooklyn Metal Works June 13–August 30, 2026.
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: Michelle Ritter
Retail price: US$4,800
Rhythm was created by established artist Michele Ritter, featured at Sculpture To Wear gallery, and was featured in the book 500 Necklaces. The neckpiece makes a melodic sound when the wearer walks briskly. Also featured in the NICHE announcement to honor Sculpture To Wear as a finalist for Retailer of the Year. Part of the collection of a prominent collector (anonymous) whose collections have been featured at the Mint Museum, NC, US; LACMA; and Fowler Museum.
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: Tereza Seabra
Retail price: 2,200€
Tereza Seabra’s work invokes the ancient function of jewelry as protector and talisman. Her materials—agates, pearls, and metals—are carriers of energy, chosen not only for their beauty but for their symbolic potency. In her hands, jewelry becomes a repository of belief, a gesture toward the sacred.
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