SONIA SIMOUN

Winner of Best in Show

BIOGRAPHY

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.

ARTIST STATEMENT

On the line between life and art, ceramic objects move fluidly between form and function. My work exploits this dichotomy while pushing it to its edge, using the formal language of the domestic object to explore ideas of fracture and fissure, inside and outside, and the ways that craft relates to the architectural and the monumental. Embodying the form of the familiar functional object, I use the language of architecture to push past this simple functionality, in order to achieve new understanding of every-day objects and their relationship to our complex lives.

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