October 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: Heidi Lowe Gallery, Lewes, DE, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Kassadi Williams (click the name for email)
Artist: Melanie Denis
Retail price: US$350
Made by Melanie Denis for the 2026 ReJewelry exhibition by Radical Jewelry Makeover, hosted by Heidi Lowe Gallery, this piece is fabricated from sterling silver, steel, brass, plastic, Plexiglas, photography, ink, silk, recycled fantasy jewel, and relic.
- Radical Jewelry Makeover was our guest for AJF Live. Watch a recording here
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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: Catarina Silva
Retail price: 650€, plus shipping
This pendant is Catarina Silva’s most recent work for her solo exhibition Jardin d’agrément, part of the third Lisbon Jewellery Biennial program. Jardin d’agrément imagines a lush, utopian garden inspired by the gardens of paradise and the gardens of the gods found across cultures. Here, humans, animals, and plants coexist beyond hierarchy, in a shared ecology of reciprocity and wonder. Jewelry becomes a living constellation of symbols: apples, unicorns, flowers, birds, and Marian imagery evoke knowledge, care, fertility, and transformation. At the heart of the exhibition, the snake emerges as a guardian rather than a tempter—a symbol of wisdom, regeneration, and the continuous cycle of life. Rather than a lost Eden, Jardin d’agrément is a poetic fiction that invites us to imagine new ways of inhabiting the world, where coexistence is not an ideal, but a living practice.
- The endless mysteries of love, desire, and memory make up Once Upon a Time, a solo exhibition by Catarina Silva. The catalog for the show is here
Gallery: In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works, Brooklyn, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Brian Weissman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Kerianne Quick
Retail price: US$550
Kerianne Quick’s research is rooted in craft practice as a cultural expression, paying particular attention to “material specificity,” a term they defined in their master’s thesis, which recognizes materials as active participants in the creation of meaning. Through their creative practice, Quick seeks to reveal overlooked and hidden stories through object-making, drawing upon the embedded histories of materials to coalesce meaning and create impact. Black-shrouded “mirrors” from the Nevermind series are made of leather and Plexiglas, referencing the mourning tradition of covering mirrors after a death. Rather than protecting the spirit of the deceased from its reflection, these obscured mirrors turn the gaze back on the living—materializing shame, culpability, despair, and helplessness.
- Another tradition related to mourning is mourning jewelry. Find Loss and Memory: Doris Salcedo and Mourning Jewelry here
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: Karin Seufert
Retail price: 700€ (excluding VAT)
Like emptiness, time is difficult to depict. It is complex and ever-changing; it is immaterial. The sky serves as a tool for orienting oneself in time. The sun defines the days, the moon marks longer phases, and the stars enable spatial navigation. Karin Seufert’s latest works portray these celestial bodies: the sun as a flickering yellow circle, the moon in its shifting phases, and the stars in multifaceted forms.
- Karin Seufert was a finalist for the 2017 Susan Beech Mid-Career Artist Grant. To mark that achievement, Katja Toporski interviewed Seufert here
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: Mei Fang Chiang
Retail price: £760 (without tax)
Mei Fang Chiang, based in Tainan, Taiwan, is an incredible art jeweler whose expertise is working uniquely with anodized aluminum, using techniques she developed in her studio that enable her to use color uniquely and beautifully. She is engaged with narratives based on the coexistence of nature and the man-made. An awarded artist whose work is in public collections including the Gold Museum in Taiwan. Her jewelry pieces are original, beautiful, and extremely light—and comfortable to wear, too.
- Mallory Weston also anodizes metal—but she works with titanium instead of aluminum. We interviewed her after she won the 2022 Young Artist Award—check it out here.
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: Naomi Kurita
Retail price: $ 3,080
A simple chain leaves nowhere to hide. Every link matters—its proportion, its join, the way it moves and lays against the next—and that kind of quiet precision is where Naomi Kurita has spent her career. This layered sterling silver link necklace runs 26 inches, long enough to fall well below the collarbone. Alongside her own line, Kurita redesigns pieces around clients’ own precious stones, giving long-held or inherited stones a new form. It comes from the same conviction that has guided her work for three decades: jewelry should be natural, simple, and made to be worn for life.
- Paul Derrez created simple chains with complex meanings for the 25th anniversary of Amsterdam Pride. Find out about his Rainbow Chains project here
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: Andrea Ortiz
Retail price: US$1,200
From the series Linking Realm, created as a graduate thesis at SCAD, this work features the bespoke work of Andrea Ortiz, from Columbia, as she presents the disparaging conditions of coffee bean workers of her native country and their plight of human rights and acceptable working conditions. Lisa M. Berman curated this necklace to be featured with Max Alexanders’s Coffee Bean dress in 2024 for NYT. Andrea has earned an impressive four IDA awards since her graduation. Owner commits to offering this piece for loan requests for exhibitions.
- Eva van Kempen’s work explores a different type of human right with themes of health, women’s rights, and individual freedoms. Find out more here
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: Esteban Erosky
Retail price: US$1,495
Esteban Erosky is a Mexican jeweler, enameler, and researcher now living in Madrid, Spain. He has studied in several countries and has specialized in classic enameling techniques, adapting them to contemporary themes portraying social, human, and gender issues, and claiming individual freedom. His pieces are short stories, always in a playful language, despite their painful themes. This brooch, titled And I Dreamed That I Would Be Happy, is painted by hand with enamel.
- Aurélie Guillaume uses enamel in her work, too. We interviewed her here
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Jane (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Angela Giuliani
Retail price: AUS$7,300
More than the pieces … Zu design asked each artist to write about their work, their practice or their processes, creating a statement for stateMEANT, a contemporary jewelry exhibition that brings together bold, thoughtful work with something to say. The focus is on pieces that make a statement, whether that sits in the social, political, or environmental space, or speaks more quietly about materials, process, sustainability, art and craft, or the realities of everyday life. “My work explores structure, form, and geometry through the use of precious metals and gemstones,” states Angela Giuliani. “I’m drawn to clean lines, simple shapes, and the balance that geometric design creates. The making process is just as important as the finished piece. I enjoy seeing each design evolve through careful craftsmanship and attention to detail. I work primarily with sterling silver, yellow gold, and rose gold, appreciating the unique qualities each material brings. I use gemstones to add color and interest, selecting them to complement the design and become an integral part of each piece rather than simply decoration. My aim is to create jewelry that is thoughtful, well made, and timeless—pieces that people enjoy wearing and connect with for years to come.”
- The Rings That Rock exhibition shows how objects as small as rings can tell big stories. Watch “AJF Live: Rings that Rock at the DIVA Museum,” here.
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: Daniel Kruger
Retail price: 4,200€
What do a shell, a gemstone, a piece of plastic, a relic, and a fetish have in common? In Daniel Kruger’s work, they can be combined into a single piece of jewelry. Kruger’s art jewelry is surprising, exuberant, sometimes mischievous, and always seductive. It beckons to you and invites you to linger and look a little longer. Kruger combines every conceivable material and technique—from gemstones to everyday objects, and from traditional textile work to refined metalwork. The sublime meets the mundane. The precious meets the cheap. The classical meets the kitsch. And, as a result, it all becomes more appealing. Kruger’s jewelry draws the eye to the neck, the chest, the hand, the ear. It magnifies, accentuates, seduces. For Kruger, a piece of jewelry can be an ornament, a talisman, a statement, or simply an irresistible object that brings you joy.
- Liesbeth den Besten reviewed Kruger’s exhibition Daniel Kruger: Jewellery and Ceramics 1974–2014 here
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Jane Dodd
Retail price: NZ$1,750
Jane Dodd is a contemporary jeweler based in Dunedin, New Zealand. Her works, fabricated from a mixture of different gold alloys, sterling silver, bone, wood, and shell, display the high level of technical craftsmanship for which Dodd is admired. In recent years, her jewelry practice has pivoted around the portrayal of animals. With a subtext of human impact and interaction, she has explored issues of extinction and infestation, cruelty and conflict. Strongly influenced by historic European craft traditions, but mindful of the plunder of the natural world that enabled and sanctioned such exuberant work, Dodd channels these contradictory emotions into works of tension, humor, and intrigue.
- See more work by Jane Dodd here
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: April Wood
Retail price: US$160
April Wood is a metalsmith, sculptor, and jeweler based in Baltimore, MD, US. She received her BFA in studio art, concentrating in metals/jewelry, from Texas State University – San Marcos, and her MFA from Towson University. She is a co-founder of the Baltimore Jewelry Center, the metals + jewelry makerspace in Baltimore city, where she currently teaches. She has taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art, the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Penland School of Crafts, Idyllwild Arts Academy, and Towson University. Her work has been featured in Metalsmith, Surface Design Journal, and Sculpture. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally, including a solo exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art, in 2012, and SIERAAD International Art Jewelry Fair, in Amsterdam, in 2013.
- See a brooch by April Wood here
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: Manuel Vilhena
Retail price: 2,730€
“…Of all the dichotomies with which we have to coexist, perhaps the most evident is the precarious dance between life and death. This is the theme addressed in this work through the adventures of a notorious gang of evildoers who daily defy death and live with it as a partner: the pirates…” —Manuel Vilhena, 2026
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- Find out more about Galeria Reverso in our interview with its owner, Paula Crespo. It’s here
Gallery: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa
Artist: Ela Bauer
Retail price: 1,340€
This brooch captures a pivotal moment in Ela Bauer’s practice, marking a clear shift from the powerful two-dimensional works for which she is known toward a new sculptural three-dimensional language. Rather than simply extending her earlier vocabulary, the piece opens a new field of spatial and material exploration. This development was recognized internationally when Bauer received the Herbert Hofmann Prize at Schmuck 2026, confirming the significance of this new direction within her evolving artistic research.
- Watch this interview between Ela Bauer and Esther Knobel—an AJF Live program—here
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