Visions In Clay 2024
Sonia Simoun
Ceramic artist Sonia Simoun has been living in the United States since 1988 after emigrating from the former USSR. Her ceramics practice spans over 25 years, and she is currently based in Harvard Ceramic Studios, Boston, Massachusetts. With a background in scenic painting, her studies at the Massachusetts College of Art sparked her work with clay. Her practice is process driven, focusing on intuitive hand-building with stoneware and glass to create vessels which merge form and function. Simoun has exhibited extensively across the U.S and Europe, winning several prestigious awards throughout her career.
My work is often driven by the very process of making itself. It is led by the touch of clay, using hand-building methods alone to create my vessels. I let the process of making intuitively guide the vessels’ final forms, with each part influenced by my relationship with the clay.
My vessels play with industrial forms on a domestic scale, echoing the language of industry and the monumental. Hovering between sculpture and function, I push everyday objects beyond their domestic use into the sculptural. My vessels strive to reflect the anthropomorphic elements of the objects that fill our lives and offer a deeper understanding of how we relate to them.
The Hook and I, 2024
Stoneware, copper rod, epoxy, wire, soda-fired
6”x7”x11”
$1800