January 2025, Part 2
We all could use a treat right now. Besides, 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 certain to find a fantastic piece you simply can’t live without!
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Gallery: Pistachios Contemporary Art Jewelry, Chicago, IL, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: The Pistachios Team (click the team name for email)
Artist: Nikki Couppee
Retail price: US$1,095
Nikki Couppee transforms everyday and nonprecious materials to create pieces that nod to the history of jewelry. “With the use of these everyday materials, I am able to exaggerate the size and abundance of gemstones [and] parody or poke fun at the class issues inherent in fine jewelry.” This lengthy pair of earrings has a playful quality, with a bit of movement and pops of color.
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: Sayumi Yokouchi
Retail price: US$1,800
Sayumi Yokouchi values the infinite expression of tactility through the process of making. Based on material handling and collecting, she seeks to find the voice in the material.
Gallery: Fingers Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Lisa Higgins (click the name for email)
Artist: Neke Moa
Retail price: NZ$2,830
Working primarily with pounamu, shell, and other locally sourced materials, the jeweler and carver Neke Moa explores the whakapapa of materials, making, and the role of body adornment in creating a sense of belonging to people and place. About this piece: Pūtahi is a taniwha who watches the happenings of people on the mudflats between the Aparima and Pourakino rivers. The green pakohe used to make this piece is specific to this area, Tihaka is one of these beaches. The golden patina has been developed through the rugged coastal cycles blowing in from Rakiura/Stewart Island. In 2023, Moa was awarded a prestigious Herbert Hofmann Prize at Munich Jewellery Week and was a McCahon House artist-in-residence.
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: Leonie Westbrook
Retail price: AUS$2,580
The More and Less neckpiece plays with movement created by varying the size of the sterling silver links that are held by contrasting Monel frames. The Monel seems to carry the sterling silver ovals around the neckpiece, and the links grow and move as you follow the chain.
Gallery: Four Gallery, Gothenburg/Umeå, Sweden (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Karin Roy Andersson (click the gallerist’s name for email)
Artist: Lena Olson
Retail price: US$1,400
Lena Olson has been working with wood for many years. Her extensive knowledge of the material allows her to create soft, tactile shapes out of a hard and often willful material. The wood challenges the artist both technically and intellectually, and the jewelry expresses harmony and craft skill.
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: Natalie Lowe
Retail price: US$990
Happy Holidays … in a suburban dystopian dream. The staff at Gravers Lane Gallery loves that Lowe’s creations feel slightly edgy, narrative, mysterious, and cute—all in one pin that doubles as a wall piece.
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: Everett Hoffman
Retail price: CAN$580
A simple, friendly, sympathetic smile? Perhaps ironic, condescending, and passive aggressive? Built in steel and laser welded, this ring by Everett Hoffman, a little brutal in its appearance, is rather nice to us, like a child’s drawing.
Gallery: Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US (click the gallery name to link to its website)
Contact: Allison Gulick (click the name for email)
Artist: Mercury Swift
Retail price: US$495
Mercury Swift is an artist from Baltimore. Their art practice includes glasswork, metalwork, and butoh-inspired performance art. These media intertwine, working to support and drive each other. Swift attempts to capture their meditations through color, form, movement, and interconnections. In this piece they were interested in combining stones that are mostly silica, like morganite, quartz, opal, and tourmaline, into their glass compositions, because effetre glass is also mostly silica. They love natural variations of stones, and how they are in conversation with homogenized glass forms.
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: Ana Margarida Carvalho
Retail price: €814
Ana Margarida Carvalho uses enamel on copper to create a new series of pieces, while revisiting the theme “Memories.” Tiny Blue Lobster (Baby Blue Back), says Carvalho, is a mix of experiences that keep popping up from her past, including those in her thoughts, and current news.
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