May 2025, 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: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Blanka Šperková
Retail price: US$1,320
Blanka Šperková’s work is noteworthy for her unique use of wire as a sculptural medium, particularly her development of a technique inspired by traditional Slovak wire craft—known as drotárstvo—that she reimagined into a contemporary art form. Rather than using soldering or welding, she hand-weaves industrial wire using her fingers, creating lightweight yet expressive sculptures that resemble line drawings in three dimensions. Her work often explores the human figure, animals, and fantastical forms, blending playfulness with technical precision. Šperková’s innovative approach has helped elevate wirework from folk tradition to contemporary sculpture, making her a pioneering figure in the field of textile- and fiber-based sculpture.
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: €13,600
In Show Piece #6, the pearls are neither lucky finds from the seabed nor cheap imitations. They don’t attempt to mimic reality—instead, they reinterpret it. Unlike costume jewelry, these pearlescent spheres surprisingly recall the original charm of real pearls without pretending to be them. Norman Weber uses synthetic materials to create a tactile fiction where the value lies not in natural rarity, but in the brilliance of artifice. The result is a piece that challenges our expectations and turns jewelry into a refined and ironic visual language.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Renee Bevan
Retail price: NZ$220
Renee Bevan is a maker working in the field of contemporary jewelry. Her work engages with the personal and cultural meanings that are invested in objects through their many and varied roles in human relationships. Bevan is of European and Cook Island descent and currently lives and works in South Auckland, NZ. In 2002 she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in visual arts from the University of Auckland and since then has exhibited extensively, including at Talente, in 2005, and Schmuck, in 2008. In 2017, Bevan was the inaugural recipient of the Blumhardt Residency. Her work is in the New Zealand public collections of the Dowse Art Museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, and the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Gallery: Ornamentum, Hudson, New York, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Stefan Friedemann (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Ted Noten
Retail price: US$30,000
This is an exquisite example of Ted Noten’s signature acrylic compositions. Nuggets of pure gold and diamonds float around the neck so beautifully that one almost forgets the subversion of casting the precious materials in acrylic. Regarded as one of the most important figures of the Dutch design world, Noten straddles the worlds of jewelry, object design, fashion, and fine art. Artworks and jewelry by Noten can be found in countless museum collections worldwide.
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: Märta Mattsson
Retail price: €420
The Swedish artist Märta Mattsson’s exceptional skill at finding the balance on the edge between the beautiful and the disgusting has made her work well known internationally. “Sometimes I see beauty in things that other people find strange or are even repulsed by,” she states. “My jewelry deals with the tension that lies between attraction and repulsion.”
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, Maryland, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Leslie Shershow
Retail price: US$400
Originally from midcoast Maine, Leslie Shershow has lived all over the country pursuing her passion as an artist, jeweler, teacher, and student. She received her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her MFA from San Diego State University. Most recently, she has written for Metalsmith magazine, and her work was selected for the 2021/2022 Schmuck special exhibition. She is currently a lecturer at San Diego State University. Through the use of experimental techniques, bright colors, luminescence, and iconic forms, Shershow’s wearable work explores themes of nostalgia, longing, kitsch, memory, and the souvenir.
Gallery: In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, New York, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Brian Weissman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Lin Cheung
Retail price: US$915
Lin’s distinctive approach to making offers a witty and poignant response to the human condition. Jewelry is both creative output and a point of reference and inspiration, with Lin frequently making work as a result of a self-reference to jewelry. Lin quotes her underlying “love-hate” relationship with jewelry as a healthy way to understand and explore a vast and diverse subject that loyally sticks close to its archetypal roots but also has the impressive ability to morph and move with the times.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Kajsa Lindberg
Retail price: US$1,400
Easily recognizable everyday forms are often the starting point in Kajsa Lindberg’s work. The inspiration is found both in almost insignificant small objects, as well as in strong and almost monumental surfaces and shapes. What they have in common is that we usually hardly notice them or that we take them for granted. There are thoughts about the unspoken rules of everyday life. This necklace is made from different brands of wooden rulers.
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: Iris Eichenberg (+ Jimena Rios)
Retail price: €1,800, plus shipping
This is a jewelry piece, an offering. It’s made with the energy of Taurus, but, above all, with the intention to understand the nature of a sign. This wearable object, like Taurus, has body, weight, and materiality. It’s felt in the body, and the body finds meaning when carrying it. Made of many parts, this jewelry piece is here, real, it is an accumulation of weights and textures, an inventory of our material world.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, Illinois, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team name for email)
Artist: Liaung-Chung Yen
Retail price: US$3,595
This is a nature-inspired statement ring unlike any other. Amethyst is captured inside quartz, a rare natural occurrence that makes this stone one-of-a-kind. Bezel set in 22-karat gold and paired with Liaung-Chung Yen’s signature organic style, this sculptural ring stands out from the crowd.
Gallery: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Gigi Mariani
Retail price: €1,950
Gigi Mariani’s artistic journey is defined by his quest to unite goldsmithing with the tactile intensity of painting. The niello technique became a breakthrough, enabling him to merge his goldsmithing skills with the material expressiveness of his painting. Mariani’s jewelry is defined by a unique aesthetic—raw, archaic forms contrasted with luminous highlights. Each piece becomes a striking composition where the brutality of ancient surfaces meets flashes of precious light, embodying his vision of beauty as something both primal and refined, and making his work instantly recognizable in the world of contemporary jewelry.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Bethamy Linton
Retail price: AUS$5,600
Bethamy Linton is a fourth-generation silversmith based in Western Australia, continuing a rich family legacy that helped shape the region’s early arts and crafts movement. Her practice spans both fine jewelry and larger-scale silverware, reflecting a wide-ranging and deeply honed skill set. Her designs have long been inspired by the natural world, particularly the flora of the Perth Hills—a nod to the wildflower motifs that have featured in her family’s work for generations. More recently, her creative focus has turned toward exploring themes of familial relationships as depicted in popular mythology and fairy tales.
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