September 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: Thereza Pedrosa Gallery, Asolo, Italy (click the gallery name to link to the website) |
Contact: Thereza Pedrosa (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Lluís Comín
Retail price: € 2,620
In the art jewels of Lluís Comín you can appreciate the inspiration based on universal myths and the overwhelming and intimate influences of nature. The artist’s statement, “Over the years, intuition has become a form of intelligence,” clearly reflects the combination that can be found in each of the creator’s works of art: respect for tradition, experience, artistic skill, and creative impulse. The artist’s love for his land, Barcelona, and the mountains can be found in each of his creations, where natural elements are often included, such as Montjuic’s Jasper in the Barcino collection, or the Reconstructions collection.
Gallery: Gravers Lane Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Chloe Le Pichon (click the name for email)
Artist: Aurélie Guillaume
Retail price: US$2,420
This is an exciting new direction in Guillaume’s work. She made this piece especially for our group exhibition, Serious Fun, curated by Night Shift Studio. The artist felt the freedom to make new work and allowed herself to experiment in a way that isn’t always possible when trying to fit a piece for an open call. In her words, “I hope you’ll enjoy Le Papillon. I took a bit of a leap and tried something new, and I had a lot of fun in the process.” Serious Fun opened September 1, 2024.
Gallery: Galeria Tereza Seabra, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Tereza Seabra (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Catarina Silva
Retail price: €1,800, plus shipping
“It all begins with the encounter. The idea of amor fati seems to be present, the love of destiny, that describes an attitude where one sees everything that occurs in life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at least, as necessary. It is characterized by the acceptance of the events or situations that occur in life[. And] perhaps humor, which is also present in these pieces, can be a certain form of love of destiny, a way of implicating and assuming oneself in a specific situation or denouement: the assumption and the overcoming. It seems to me that humor can be a pacifying agent and works as affirmation on the authorship and on the choice of the contours of our own story. Once again, it is very evident that, for Catarina Silva, that is a primordial vehicle to feel, experience, and aesthetically translate life.” —Carolina Quintela
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Joanna Campbell
Retail price: Each NZ$2,300
Joanna Campbell creates collections from wearable production pieces to elaborate exhibition works. Her jewelry is based on a love of design combined with an innovative craft-based practice. Underpinning the work is a fascination with textiles, and an enthusiasm for making metal more fabric-like in all its iterations. This new series of Ribbon rings is available in 18-karat gold, sterling silver, and oxidized sterling silver (commissions available). Campbell is a multi-award-winning jeweler who graduated with a bachelor’s of three-dimensional design (jewellery major) in 2001. She has worked on a number of high-profile film productions including The Last Samurai. She lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand.
Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team name for email)
Artist: Meghan Schmiedel
Retail price: US$6,795
The incredible attention to detail that Meghan Schmiedel demonstrates with this statement necklace is unparalleled. Hailing from rural New England, Schmiedel draws inspiration from her natural surroundings and explores large concepts centered around the dichotomy of life and death. “While my jewelry can be seen as tokens of remembrance, it’s also a reminder for the wearer that in life, as sure as new growth comes up from decay, there is a balance between all things …” Undoubtedly, this necklace toes the line between grotesque and exquisite—proving that both can simultaneously exist in a singular piece of jewelry.
Gallery: Zu design, Adelaide, Australia (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Jane Bowden (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Jane Bowden
Retail price: Front ring, AUS$13,995
Jane Bowden is a process-driven maker. This current series of Wrapped rings was made for the exhibition Zu design & Jane Bowden, and it was a chance to revisit a design initially inspired by the winding and wrapping of fine wire so it can be torch annealed without melting. The geometric components containing gemstones are threaded onto a length of titanium wire roughly XXX feet (7 m) long, which forms the ring band. As the titanium is wound around a mandrel, the components are positioned, and the ring is then finished by binding/wrapping a 0.3 mm titanium wire to hold its final form.
Gallery: Platina, Stockholm, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Sofia Bjorkman (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Kajsa Lindberg
Retail price: US$1,000
Well-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. The patterns on this necklace are taken from explanations of how to open tomato and bean cans.
Gallery: Aaron Faber Gallery, New York, NY, US (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Patricia Kiley Faber (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Glenda Arentzen
Retail price: $12,500
Glenda Arentzen’s gold Box Necklace is a museum-quality tour-de-force of painting in precious metal in three-dimensional collage form, circa 1985. Each “box” measures ¾ x ¾ x 3/16 inches (mm); the necklace is 15 inches (mm) long. Each collage box is assembled with textured strips of 14-karat yellow gold, 14-karat rose gold, 18-karat white gold, and 24-karat pure gold, framed by 14-karat yellow polished gold “boxes.” Arentzen uses materials, for instance working in wax to create textured surfaces, and traditional fabrication techniques in combination.
Gallery: Galerie Noel Guyomarc’h, bijoux et objets contemporains, Montreal, Canada (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Noel Guyomarc’h (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Sofia Björkman
Retail price: CAN$940
The works in the Landscapes series, by Sofia Björkman, made using the 3D pencil technique, are like three-dimensional portable paintings. Contemporary jewelry, a unique art form, can easily be moved from one context to another, and the mobility and the flexibility amplify its potential to make an impact and evoke diverse reactions.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Veronika Fabian
Retail price: €1,800
This series of jewelry by Veronika Fabian is made of flattened chains that create greatly enlarged jewelry clasps. Clasps play an important part in jewelry. They keep the piece together, attach it to a body, make it wearable. But often it is only the function that is noticed, while the clasp itself is hidden. Fabian’s pieces give them their rightful place in the spotlight. They inspire respect and radiate weight—status that also rubs off on the wearer. Fabian has a background as a risk analyst in the financial industry, and her work touches on issues of capitalism and its impact on everyday life and identity.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the name to link to the website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Zach Mellman-Carsey
Retail price: US$500
Zach Mellman-Carsey, recently in residence at the BJC, is an artist currently based out of Lancaster, PA. In his studio practice, he creates wearable fine and conceptual jewelry and sculptures. He received his MFA from Indiana University, in Bloomington, IN, US. With this series, Mellman-Carsey is creating wearable brooches that explore the tradition of Kriah. Kriah, the Hebrew word for “tearing,” is a tradition to mark the death of a loved one and to announce a period of grieving. The tradition requires those who are grieving to tear, rip, or cut their own clothing as a tangible expression of sadness, anger, and loss.
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