November 2025, Part 1
We all could use a treat right now. It feels great to get a terrific piece of art jewelry for ourselves while also 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 them to showcase extraordinary pieces personally selected to tempt and inspire you. Take a look. You’ll surely find a glorious piece you simply can’t live without! (Please contact the gallery directly for inquiries.)
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: Cindy Cheng
Retail price: US$2,000
Cindy Cheng is a sculptor and jeweler based in Baltimore, and a current three-month resident artist at the Baltimore Jewelry Center. This necklace features an ant that can be worn as a brooch or pinned onto the necklace as part of the pendant. A precision-faceted lavender quartz is set into the ant and a fire opal set further up the chain is intaglio carved with the word “here”—perhaps as an indication of the bug’s destination or impulse.
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: Ela Bauer
Retail price: CAN$925
Color plays a vital role and has recently become a central theme in Ela Bauer’s work. Color is the first sensation we perceive—something we feel before we understand. It is a powerful language, capable of shaping moods and evoking entire atmospheres.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the name for email)
Artist: Yookyung Song
Retail price: US$750
Seoul-based artist Yookyung Song utilizes gallium to create jewelry inspired by images that emerge from the surface of calm water. Surrounding landscapes reflected in puddles of water after the rain are reinterpreted with this unique reflective liquid metal. That allows this one-of-a-kind brooch to be both opaque and transparent. This brooch is featured in Things Unsaid, a collaborative exhibition with Precious Collective that will travel to Munich Jewellery Week in 2026.
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: Simon Williams
Retail price: Larger (at front) AUS$4,670; smaller AUS$4,290
The Commodity bangles were made in 2020, when Simon Williams received a COVID-19 Arts Grant support, which he used to create new work and to set up his home studio. These pieces are a commentary on the increase in price of precious metals when people invest in times of uncertainty. They also pose the question of the worth of the maker. With the current political climate and the rush of people investing in metal again, the Commodity bangle has certainly proven its title.
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: Moniek Schreijer
Retail price: 1,300€, plus shipping
The Rings of Saturn bangle for the exhibition cycle curated by HALO (Catarina Silva and Marta Costa Reis) appears on view in the Scorpio show at Thereza Seabra’s gallery until November 15, 2025.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Karin Johansson
Retail price: US$1,250
Karin Johansson works with impressions from places that have been special to her. This necklace is inspired by the colors of Capri, where she went as an artist in residence. Long daily walks, along steep coastlines and through narrow passages, were mixed with silent moments. Photographs, views, smells, sounds, colors provided a treasure box of impressions that became the guide for the work. Enamel on silver tubes, fired in several layers, has been assembled into unique works with titles pointing back to the inspiration from the island.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kate Crankshaw (click the name for email)
Artist: Kathleen King
Retail price: US$2,852
This is a beautiful ring with a unique multi-stone setting. Definitely a statement piece that is one of a kind.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Melinda Young
Retail price: Each NZ$360
“An inveterate gleaner, the re-use and re-working of found materials is central to my practice,” says Melinda Young. “Some materials bring an existing narrative to the work, providing a point of connection for viewers, wearers, and frequently for myself as the maker. My work reflects the sensations inherent in making and wearing—the texture, color, and sound of materials are important and [they’re] selected with care. I am motivated by the transformative power of adornment and its ability to make a statement through the sharing of stories as a form of quiet activism. Works in the ongoing Future Relic series are made from marine plastics collected near my home on Dharawal Country, NSW, and at Yirrkala, in Arnhem Land, which drift on the currents from faraway places to pollute the beaches, along with car debris collected on the APY Lands, in South Australia. The work reflects the contrast between the natural materials and ancient cultures bound up with this land and the imposition of other places upon it via the movement of debris and people across the oceans.”
Gallery: Objects Beautiful, London, UK (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Yael Reisner (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Michal Oren
Retail price: £500 GBP, plus VAT
Michal Oren’s Hair-pin is quite minimalist, like many of her other pieces of jewelry, which are all so very delicate and elegant, with a great effect where an abstract idea transforms into a beautiful structure. In this case, a silver tube with one pearl seated firmly, skillfully, on one side, and a touch of 18-karat gold on the other. So poetic.
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: Ketli Tiitsar
Retail price: 520€
Longing is connected to melancholy, nostalgia, loneliness, and maybe naive romance. Longing for something unattainable absorbs our thoughts, but it can also get us closer to ourselves and to others. Longing can be something recognizable, connecting, and present. The work of Ketli Tiitsar is made up of personal layers of history, but it invites us to take part and to connect.
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: Carla Castiajo
Retail price: 1,970€
The name of this piece, Sperare, means “to have hope.” It’s a term derived from the Latin root spes, meaning “to hope,” “to wait.” Having hope is important, as this feeling is usually associated with an optimistic expectation—the belief that what one hopes for can indeed be achieved. White hair (one of the materials used) is a reflection on the passage of time and serves as a metaphor for this waiting. And in such an erratic time as the one we live in, hope may be the only light that guides us; hence the significance of this piece, as a reminder of the need to preserve hope in an age of uncertainty.
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: Jolynn Santiago
Retail price: US$900
Inspired by dustings of pollen, artist Jolynn Santiago fuses silver wire fragments within a hand-carved graphite mold to create a visible cycle of renewal from the debris. This unique process sets the artist apart as she experiments with new materials and techniques in her ongoing investigations of the settling dust and the accumulations which mark the gentle passage of time. Santiago holds an MFA in metal from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and her work has been exhibited internationally. This series is currently featured in her solo exhibition at Brooklyn Metal Works.
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