

 Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Ave
New York, NY 10065

From November 6 to 10, Salon Art & Design returns to the Park Avenue Armory—now in its fourteenth year—with a luminous showing of more than fifty galleries, where design meets sculpture and functional objects rise to the realm of fine art. This year, ceramics appear in renewed dialogue with furniture, lighting, and decorative forms, as both new participants and longtime exhibitors introduce new work, including notable additions from returning artists.

Hostler Burrows presents a memorable constellation of clay: the moss-green, fairytale figures of Kim Simonsson; Kirsi Kivivirta’s geometric stoneware wall pieces, composed from small, puzzle-like arrangements; and Irene Nordli’s convulsive, creaturely vessels—also on view at the gallery’s Tribeca location in Both Sides Now. Ippodo Gallery introduces works by Agnes Husz—spiraling slabs of clay that twist into abstract forms—and by Masahiro Maeda, whose iro-e practice reimagines traditional techniques through contemporary surface patterning. At Onishi Gallery, a concentrated display of Bizen ware—shaped by flame, ash, and centuries of tradition—provides a grounding counterpoint, with a more expansive presentation continuing through November 21 at the gallery’s Upper East Side location. At Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Jiha Moon’s narrative vessels—hybrid forms animated by folklore and pop-cultural gesture—take confident prominence, as LES Collection presents Gianfranco Briceño’s painted pots, their surfaces tracing intimate narratives of gender and sexuality.

Returning galleries include Liz O’Brien, presenting new variations by Paul Briggs, Isobel Egan, and Jennifer Hickey; Todd Merrill Gallery, showcasing works by Christopher Russell and Molly Hatch; and Donzella Ltd., presenting Chris Gustin alongside Rosanne Sniderman—among many others across the fair.

Taken together, the fair traced a continuum—functional and sculptural, traditional and contemporary, austere and exuberant. It suggested how clay moves—from studio to gallery to domestic interior—art to look at, yes, but also to live with. Beauty here is not a proclamation, but a companion.

Here are nineteen galleries that reveal the depth and range of ceramics at this year’s fair.