Ceramics Monthly Articles (Simple)

Advertising has a strong influence on how we perceive food, and what emotions we ascribe to brands and to specific types of food. Kazuma Sambe uses humor and surrealist substitution to ask viewers to

Andrew McIntyre’s pottery is designed not only for the home and everyday use, but also to enhance the user’s experience of consumption and celebratory events.

The ornate surfaces of Ben Jordan’s vessels combine with strong, refined, and striking forms. Jordan enjoys working within the context of utility, and having the finished work show a sense of the impo

Ahrong Kim’s figurative work explores a wide range of human emotions, experiences, and psychological observations from her own life. In her artist statement, Kim expresses that her goal is to analyze

Sex sells, but at what cost? Allison Cochran makes ceramic vessels that raise awareness of the problems our culture faces with our values regarding physical appearances.

Adrienne Eliades’ food-specific functional tableware helps heighten users’ experiences of serving and eating. Eliades’ clean, asymmetrical forms are often a combination of wheel-thrown, handbuilt, an

The people Kelsey Duncan portrays in his figurative sculptures are not often in the spotlight. His recent work focuses on the men and women involved in small-town burlesque culture, and the ways that

Adam Knoche’s work is the definition of eye candy. His use of bright colors, asymmetrical compositions, and tactile textures seduce and draw viewers in for a closer look.

Although quiet, Adrian King’s hyper-functional pottery begs to be used. The handle on the pitcher and the knob on the jar’s lid fit comfortably in the hand and aid in both their physical and visual fu

A confluence of lines and shadows, the entanglements of Shalya Marsh’s ceramic pieces are frozen in situ. As viewers, we are unable to tighten or undo the knots that she has created and that the kiln

Autumn Higgins uses her wheel-thrown and handbuilt porcelain vessels as a canvas to draw portraits of daily life. Her illustrations are directly inspired from observations of her local environment.

Few people can pull off the combination of ceramics and mixed media. Often times the additional materials look like an afterthought, and thus there is no true marriage of the two. But Richard W. James

While the connections are visible, there is so much more happening in these sculptures. Each piece is a study in the dichotomy of male versus female, utilitarian versus decoration, gravity versus flig

Contemporary abstract sculpture meets decaying grocery store shopping basket and the result is avant-garde function.

Didem Mert makes utilitarian pots that are influenced by geometry, texture, and the design-rich environment she grew up in as the daughter of a woodworker.

Repetitively layering slab strips and flattened coils to create volumetric forms allows Justin Donofrio’s finished vessels to record and then remind the user of the process.

The materials used to create a clay body and the manipulation of a clay body’s plasticity have long been used by ceramic artists to show weathering, deterioration, and memory.

Patrick Kingshill’s pieces are a continuous study of form, process, and surface. Pieces and parts of varied geometries work together to create a whole.

Cuts and scrapes, smudges and roughed-up edges are the beauty marks covering and decorating Mark Arnold’s functional forms.

Mac McCusker’s figurative work and narrative vessels document personal experiences and struggles as a transgender artist.