June 2026, 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 Metalworks, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Zoe Ariyama (click the name for email)
Artist: Valerie James
Retail price: US$2,600
This necklace by Valerie James spotlights the artist’s exceptional skill at hand engraving. The sections of oxidized sterling silver are woven together with silk ribbon. This work is featured in the exhibition Here, There, and Everywhere, at Brooklyn Metal Works through August 30, 2026.
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: Soft Blonde
Retail price: US$92
Soft Blonde is a contemporary line based in Baltimore, MD, US, specializing in handmade jewelry. Kat Stankewicz is the designer behind Soft Blonde. Her line started in 2015 with small batches of jewelry for annual art fairs and events. She began incorporating organic materials into her work, eventually creating the signature Pierced Collection.
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$9,240
Marne Ryan’s Ring 41, from the Geoscape Series, is a study in deliberate layering. Each ring is cut from a fused sheet of sterling silver and high-karat golds, with 24-karat gold added to the front and back surfaces and 18-karat pale yellow gold framing the top and bottom edges. A strip of 22-karat gold lines the interior—softer against skin and more durable over time. The boulder opal anchors the composition with natural color and depth. Notably, the ring’s patina develops through wear: skin chemistry and natural oils deepen the surface over time, a luster that cannot be replicated artificially and only grows richer with age.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Tania Patterson
Retail price: Each NZ$790
Tania Patterson is a New Zealand jeweler and sculptor who graduated in 1989 with a diploma in craft design. Over the past 30 years she has exhibited widely in New Zealand and Australia, with her work held in the collections of the Auckland Museum, The Dowse Art Museum, and Te Papa Tongarewa. Her practice draws inspiration from the natural world, particularly native species such as frogs, lizards, moths, and birds. Returning to her jewelry roots in recent years, she embraces the intimate scale of wearable objects, combining technical exploration with ecological themes to celebrate the beauty and fragility of nature. Now based in rural Waipu, Patterson balances her studio practice with time spent in the great outdoors, tramping, planting trees, and gardening—pursuits that continue to nourish and inform her creative work.
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: 1,700€
In the neckpiece Twisted Prickly, the material—galalith—plays a lead character. The works refers to the qualities of the material, 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: 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: 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: 1,350€
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. In this sturdy, flexible, and elegant collar, Gorbunova carefully set 28 cabochon-cut tiger’s eyes. The small gemstones float around your neck and sparkle with the slightest movement. 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: Galeria Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Herman Hermsen
Retail price: 960€
“This necklace,” states Herman Hermsen, “is a reaction to all the threats in the world around you which more and more destroy the safety of life and peace in the world. Also, an individual in a crowd can experience [not feeling secure]. The blind spot mirror gives the person in front and in back of you the possibility to check what happens behind. And a possible attacker can see him/herself and reflect on what he/she eventually had planned to do.” The mirror is adjustable. The reflecting angle can be changed so everything around you can be seen.
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: 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: 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: 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: Hanna Liljenberg
Retail price: US$4,695
Meticulously hand made with paper, seed pods, acrylic paint, and brass, this incredible one-of-a-kind statement necklace from Hanna Liljenberg is a showstopper. “With my background as a painter,” she states, “I tend to use paper or blank metal sheets as a starting point for my jewelry. These foldable materials urge for my attention.” The organic nature of her work is inspired by Dutch still-life paintings from the eighteenth century, with imagery of decaying flowers and dark undertones. Liljenberg’s work is on view at Pistachios as part of the exhibition Mystic Meadows, alongside collections from Märta Mattsson, Sofia Björkman, and Karin Roy Andersson.
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