September 2024, Part 2
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 Reverso, Lisbon, Portugal (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Paula Crespo (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Veronika Fabian
Retail price: €1,575
In her new series, Veronika Fabian continues to explore the interconnection of jewelry and identity, with a particular focus on different jewelry elements. The main body of work consists of necklaces with enlarged clasps and hooks made entirely out of chains. The traditional roles are reversed within the jewelry piece, and new rules are set: elevated from their typical supportive role, Fabian’s jewelry closings serve as potent symbols of authority and control.
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$7,590
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: 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: Rebecca Schena
Retail price: US$330
No explanation needed for why showerhead earrings are the best concept—I mean, just look at them! This piece was made for our group exhibition Serious Fun, curated by Kate Dannenberg and Elysse Bendillo. It opened September 1, 2024.
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: Tove Knuts
Retail price: US$830
The Swedish artist Tove Knuts is known for her soft organic and colorful shapes. Her work is about value, craft, and traditions. This brooch is the result of a project that started in her late father’s workshop. Knuts has used her father’s materials and unfinished pieces, and combined them with her own shapes and colors. It is a dialogue between the two of them, where they meet in their common history and craft tradition while also reflecting the differences and contrasts in material and expression.
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 explanation of how to open tomato and bean cans.
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: Emmeline Hastings
Retail price: US$1,145
Emmeline Hastings exemplifies impeccable craftsmanship with this unique necklace. Sterling silver is layered together on top of acrylic to create an intriguing textured that resembles scales, while the flattering curvature elongates the neck.
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: AUS$9,675
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 23 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: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to the website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Kath Inglis
Retail price: NZ$620
Since 2001, Kath Inglis has developed an innovative contemporary jewelry practice by working with her signature material, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The material is sourced as a clear flexible sheet and is manipulated by a process of coloring, cutting, carving, and, more recently, heat-fusing. Small shards of material are removed from the surface through intricate hand-cut incisions, creating new surface textures for light and shadow to play. The resulting hard cut edges and sharp glittering prisms of color allude to qualities associated with glass. To touch this work dispels the illusion, as the material is flexible, supple, and as light as air. “… applying color, removing pieces from the surface or adding heat-fused layers elevates this material into the precious,” says the artist. Inglis lives and works in Adelaide, Australia.
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: Eddie Sakamoto
Retail price: US$995
Eddie Sakamoto’s jewelry is hard to find, except in private collections. He is a master goldsmith with a personal vision that he describes as minimalist, where less is more, and metal is designed to “curve and bend and arc gracefully. They are feminine and masculine in form, the yin/yang.” There is always movement.
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: James Betts
Retail price: US$375
James Betts is an artist and educator currently living and working in the Philadelphia area. He currently holds an MFA in metals/jewelry/CAD/CAM from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. His artistic practice utilizes digital technology to illustrate psychological and visual phenomena in the form of wearable objects. This bracelet was designed to capture the visual effect of energetic effects in motion: What form of energy this represents is entirely up to the viewer’s interpretation and imagination. This piece was created using 3D-modeling software, then 3D-printed directly in stainless steel.
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: Ana Margarida Carvalho
Retail price: Each €100, plus shipping
Ana Margarida Carvalho is a Portuguese jeweler with a very playful approach to jewelry-making. In this series she explores the tensions of metal, presenting a group of colorful pins. They’re very easy-to-wear pieces for your everyday wardrobe!
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.
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