Santiago Insignares Martínez, from Colombia and currently based in Berlin, Germany, uses playfulness and what he identifies as "the toy" to point to some of the heavier, contradictory corners of contemporary life. He leans into a vibrant, candy-colored palette and whimsical forms, tricking the eye with humor, irony, and a bit of playground angst to […]
MoCA/NY has partnered with New Ceramics, a European ceramics magazine, to bring readers one article from their print edition twice a year. The goal is to bridge and strengthen the global clay community by sharing knowledge, celebrating remarkable work from around the world, and supporting one another.Originally published in New Ceramics Magazine, March/April 2026. We […]
Originally published in MRIN Journal, Issue 5 (2025). This enhanced version includes additional images from Ray Meeker and videos by Adil Writer and the ANAB archives, published with permission from MRIN. The ancient Indian manuscript Skanda Purana mentions the term Yugantagni, a transformative fire that marks the end of a cycle of creation and its […]
Visit Lucy Lacoste Gallery and explore other galleries, studios, and ceramic destinations through Ceramic World Destinations (CWD), MoCA/NY’s interactive map featuring over 4,000 ceramic sites worldwide. Lucy Lacoste Gallery is showing Chris Gustin: Wild Things (through October 12, 2025), a suite of new abstract ceramic sculptures from the artist’s Cloud and Sprite series. These works […]
In the foothills of Saja Mountain, in South Korea’s Jangheung, Jeollanam-do, an unassuming slope conceals one of the country’s most singular art spaces: a one-hundred-meter grotto, dug entirely by hand, its 1,650 square meters winding through a labyrinth of chambers and tunnels. The walls bloom with roots, skulls, celestial beings, and Buddhas; shallow alcoves cradle […]
Visit Eugene Ofori Agyei’s studio by appointment, and explore other studios and ceramic destinations across New York through Ceramic World Destinations (CWD), MoCA/NY’s interactive map featuring over 4,000 ceramic sites worldwide. Eugene Ofori Agyei’s sculptures do not sit still. They reach, coil, and unfurl—gestures in clay, batik, yarn, wood, and the layered histories of things […]
Visit Keka Ruiz-Tagle’s studio by appointment, and explore other studios and ceramic destinations across Chile through Ceramic World Destinations (CWD), MoCA/NY’s interactive map featuring over 4,000 ceramic sites worldwide. Keka Ruiz-Tagle speaks to the ancestors—not through language, but through fire, pigment, and clay. Her ceramic figures, squat and monumental, solemn and watchful, seem to emerge […]
In a Dutch underground bunker-turned-residency, a painter—Jonat Deelstra—is in the studio when his photographer friend arrives carrying several bags of wet clay. Like a child first encountering the soft, amorphous material, Deelstra’s sensorial curiosity takes over. Instinctively molding the unfamiliar clay, he conjures familiar forms—eggs—an implied image imprinted in his temporal lobe, evoking the ducks […]
Ceramic SupplyPittsburghOne Walnut StreetCarnegie, PA. Standard Clay Company, based in Pittsburgh, is a fourth-generation manufacturer of wet clay bodies, slips, and glazes. Its products are distributed through a network of over 50 partners across the eastern United States, with an expanding presence internationally. The company's gallery, ClayPlace@Standard, hosts multiple exhibitions annually and served as a […]
In a downtown Toronto studio, where light streams through high windows and illuminates layers of clay in various stages of completion, Susan Collett can be found working intuitively with wires, porcelain, or earthenware paper clay. Now in her 31st year of full-time studio practice, Collett continues to push boundaries as a multi-disciplinary artist. She shifts […]
