May 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 glorious 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: Sarah Holden
Retail price: US$800
Sarah Holden is an academically trained jeweler interested in the language of adornment. Jewelry signals power, beauty, affinity, and status. Her sculpture and jewelry are made using both technical jewelry skills and industrial fabrication techniques. In this piece, she has created a steel lace collar in a nod to the late US Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her prolific career.
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: 850€
Gallium rests inside a hollow cabochon of frosted rock crystal, its presence revealed when the quartz is wet. Solid below 30 degrees Celsius, it turns liquid with warmth, shifting like a living inclusion. Unlike mercury, gallium is not toxic to humans, yet it aggressively weakens metals such as aluminum. It’s used in electronics and certain defense applications, such as nuclear weapons. Here, it behaves as both material and metaphor, potentially interacting with the surrounding silver. It is also a small wink to Peter Skubic and Peter Bauhuis, who explored the use of this metal.
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: Marta Costa Reis
Retail price: 1,800€
Marta Costa Reis moves between reflection and creation, attentive to the signs and codes that have guided human meaning across time. Her work meditates on the fading of symbols, on what is remembered, and what is forgotten, transforming jewelry into an act of divination—an attempt to glimpse beyond the visible, to touch the mystery that lies hidden.
Gallery: InterFusion Art, Santa Fe, NM, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Team (click for email)
Artist: Kate Cusack
Retail price: US$1,200
Kate Cusack’s Red/Black Loci Necklace is a striking statement piece, hand-crafted from zippers that intertwine into bold, sculptural forms with vivid red-and-black contrast. This inventive design creates an unexpected graphic rhythm that feels playful and collectible. Based in Brooklyn, Cusack is renowned for her zipper jewelry and wearable art.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, QC, Canada (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Julia Obermaier
Retail price: CAN$1,380
Julia Obermaier’s brooches are composed of cut and layered stones, here with a line of synthetic diamonds. These small tableaux awaken our imagination and invite meditation.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, NSW, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jane Bowden
Retail price: (Front) AUS$3,040, (back) AUS$3,610
These stacking rings by Jane Bowden explore balance through contrast—weight and lightness, geometry and touch. Composed of distinct, interchangeable elements, each holds a different formal language: a sharply faceted, architectural block in dialogue with a softened, circular form. Worn alone, each is resolved; stacked, they become a small, evolving structure—quietly architectural, tactile, and responsive to the hand that composes them.
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: Sarah Holden
Retail price: US$380
Sarah Holden received her MFA in studio art with a focus in jewelry and metalsmithing from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and her BFA in crafts/material studies and sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. Holden has presented as a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, and taught as a metals instructor at the Penland School of Crafts. She currently teaches steel fabrication and metal forming at the Chicago Industrial Arts and Design Center. Her sculpture and limited-production jewelry can be found at galleries across the US. Holden currently lives in Chicago where she works as a studio artist, metals instructor, and mom.
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: Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost
Retail price: 2,400€ (excluding VAT)
With her Plis jewelry collection and her first collaboration with MiniMasterpiece gallery, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost pursues a longstanding obsession: transforming industrial objects into aesthetic, sensitive, domestic, and wearable designs. At the heart of this project is a material that has become emblematic of her universe: pleated metal mesh. Although it was designed for technical uses—filters or industrial assemblies—she invents other applications and forms for it: a candle holder, a lamp, a tube, a lantern. And now, jewelry.
Gallery: Wearable Art Museum, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa M. Berman (click the director’s name for email)
Artist: Claudia Endler
Retail price: US$6,000
One-of-a-kind ring featuring a 20.19-carat context-cut citrine, cut in the renowned gemstone center of Idar-Oberstein, Germany. Claudia Endler is a GIA certified designer and multiple award winner for her architecturally-inspired jewelry designs. This ring was featured on the Paris Opera House runway 2026 for fashion designer Max Alexander, curated by Lisa M. Berman on behalf of the Wearable Art Museum. “My mother had a glass vitrine in her home,” says the artist, “with gleaming chrome and brass, in which she displayed the beautiful baubles she collected. My latest design is inspired by these reflections—the boldness of my mother’s choices, and the clarity of beauty on display. I’m proud to introduce the Vitrine Ring, a marriage of contrasts that showcases its stone from all sides in the form of a V-split shank. From every angle the stone shines and refracts the light, reflecting from within. Encased in precious metals of gold or silver, each ring is as unique as the stone it holds.”
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: Karin Roy Andersson
Retail price: US$4,595
Repetition is key to Karin Roy Andersson’s artistic practice. “The urge to repeat movements over and over again, methodically and resolutely, is something that is significant for both my personality and my work,” she says. This bold necklace, made entirely out of hand-cut and -dyed leather, is incredibly soft and effortlessly forms to the wearer.
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: Betsy Hershberg
Retail price: US$1,045
Betsy Hershberg’s work showcases and celebrates the versatility of hand knitting. Each piece features hand-knitting techniques at its core. She utilizes traditional plain or bead-knitted stitch-making, as well as a unique bead-knitting technique of her own invention, which she calls abacus bead knitting. She also employs off-loom bead weaving, embroidery, or other methods of surface embellishment to enhance the textural and architectural variety of the work. Most often comprised of fine fibers and small beads, Hershberg’s work has substance without weight, making a statement while remaining comfortable and easy to wear. All work is one-of-a-kind.
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