November 2024, Part 1
There are so many reasons to purchase art jewelry…
- Celebrate that hard-earned promotion
- Honor a once-in-a-lifetime occasion
- Pay tribute to a major accomplishment
- Commemorate the beginning of a new relationship or the end of one
- Pounce on the perfect piece to round out an aspect of your collection
- Or invest in a treat for yourself—just because
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: 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: Verena Sieber-Fuchs
Retail price: €3,000, plus shipping
Verena Sieber-Fuchs is an artist from Switzerland, based in Zurich. She is a master of crocheting her everyday life. She is a furious collector of everything that surrounds her, from medicine blister packs to orange paper, stamps, beads, etc. Everything is ritualistically kept with care to speak about pleasure, sorrows, or politics. It’s a game with all kinds of materials and above all with no precious ones to make them precious. This piece is part of her solo exhibition at Galeria Tereza Seabra, The Year of the Revolution, which runs until November 23, 2024.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jutta Kallfelz
Retail price: €3,200
“With my rabbits, I am concerned with making living beings visible. The real image is of central importance to me. In the fragment I want to suggest the image of the living animal,” Kallfelz explains. Through these carved sculptures, both tender and playful, the artist nourishes the links between imagination and reality.
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: Blanche Tilden
Retail price: AUS$3,200
Hosier neckpiece is at Zu design for Seven Colours. Multiple-exposure color photographs by Marcus Scholz are starting points for Blanche Tilden’s distinctive jewelry. Made with clear and colored borosilicate glass, silver, and anodized titanium, this series explores links between jewelry, photography, architecture, and the body. Eminently wearable, each piece suggests a moment of calm, in contrast to the constant hustle of the urban landscape. Tilden will be giving an artist talk about her work, “In Conversation,” with Rebecca Evans, curator of Decorative Arts and Design, AGSA, Tuesday, October 29, 12:30 p.m., Radford Auditorium. Additional info.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Chloe Le Pichon (click the name for email)
Artist: Heather White
Retail price: US$5,060
Heather White teaches as a professor at MassArt and Design, in Boston. This locket design is all-over sublime! As Jennifer Altmann wrote, “Lockets have been a foundational element of jewelry since antiquity. In Four-in-One, the nickel silver lockets open to reveal interiors with bursts of color—deep reds, electric yellows, blues, and purples.” This piece is a fun, sculptural, and sleek modern take on the traditional locket.
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: Daphne Krinos
Retail price: US$1,895
London-based artist Daphne Krinos expertly combines oxidized sterling silver, garnet, lemon citrine, and diamonds to create an unforgettable pair of earrings. Subtle movement and sparkle elevate this elegant pair to a higher level of sophistication.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Sofia Björkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: matt lambert
Retail price: US$1,500
In this new body of work, matt lambert investigates animacy, the relationship of the human hand to the nonhuman in practice, and asks: “What if we just let go of the bird and jump into the bushes?” That statement views artistic practice as a process for the animation of the abstract, to make physical points for embodied dialogue. It takes theory and practice together, to form praxis. The necklace with two open hands can be seen as a connection between the thought and practice, the spoken word and the made object, mouth to hand.
Gallery: Mahnaz Collection, New York, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Bella Neyman (click the name for email)
Artist: Jesse Monongya (Navajo/Hopi)
Retail price: US$6,800
Made by the late Jesse Monongya (Navajo/Hopi) (1952–2024), one of the most prominent Native American jewelers, early in his career. The son of early modern artist jeweler Preston Monongye, Jesse made work distinguished by his mastery of inlay. He created bracelets, necklaces, pendants, bolo ties, and earrings inlaid with the finest coral, turquoise, Acoma jet, sugilite, lapis, ivory, and more. He enjoyed using diamonds and created exquisite displays of color. Animals inspired him, and the bear was his closest jewelry companion. Monongya is recognized for the celestial night skies he inlaid, filled with flying comets and views of Monument Valley. He said he was inspired by the dreamlike stories that his grandmother told him as a young child. This ring is no exception, with the bold, graphic image on its face, continuing down both sides of the shank. Monongya’s much-awarded work can be found in the Heard Museum, MOMA, the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian, and many other institutions. A similar ring is featured in Jesse Monongya: Opal Bears and Lapis Skies, by Lois Sherr Dubin (2002), on page 134.
Gallery: Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Patricia Kiley Faber (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Monica Nesseler
Retail price: US$225
Monica Nesseler is a German jewelry artist working with color using Murano glass rings and glass beads to create her one-of-a-kind necklaces, which each vary with the glass. This necklace in her Rialto series, from a private collection, includes the original box.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jenny Jansson
Retail price: €750
In her jewelry pieces Jenny Jansson tells a story of a romanticized view of Swedish traditions and culture—but something is just a little bit off. Images of traditional culture are paired with flower wreaths and buttercups. In recent years the debate around immigration has brought up the topic of what it takes to get to call oneself Swedish. Do you have to like pickled herring, know how to assemble flat-pack furniture, or dance around the Midsummer pole? Traditions can have an important role in creating inclusivity within a community, culture, and tradition, but can also be used as a tool for exclusion and alienation.
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: Paula Crespo
Retail price: €2,200
Paula Crespo’s work is mainly based in search of simple geometric shapes, on which small volumes are involved, in order to create plans or surfaces that interfere with light and space. On larger pieces she seeks, through the repetition of an element, to create a pattern, a rhythm, as is the case in necklaces and chains. This offers the possibility of great flexibility, even when worked in larger volumes. All her works are designed by her and fabricated by hand.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the name for email)
Artist: Ye-jee Lee
Retail price: US$750
Enthralled with the idea of symbolism, Ye-jee Lee reuses forgotten vintage molds and gives them new life in her work. Inspired by an experience with a press machine and metal dies at the German Museum of Technology, she utilizes dies in unexpected ways to create new pieces of jewelry. Lee uses materials, such as metal mesh, thin plates, and leather, that are printed using a die press to acquire a shape and structure which makes them suitable to be worked into individual ornaments. Visit her first American solo exhibition at the Baltimore Jewelry Center, on view through November 15, 2024.
We welcome your comments on our publishing, and will publish letters that engage with our articles in a thoughtful and polite manner. Please submit letters to the editor electronically; do so here.
© 2024 Art Jewelry Forum. All rights reserved. Content may not be reproduced in whole or in part without permission. For reprint permission, contact info (at) artjewelryforum (dot) org
