Suzanne Sullivan

Suzanne Sullivan is a ceramic artist in Brooklyn, NY. She hand-builds porcelain vessels, tableware, and tumblers decorated with geometric and tribal-inspired patterns in black-and-white, gold, mustard, and persimmon glazes.

Sullivan works from a studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, teaching preschool and high school students by day and building handmade porcelain by night. Her intricate works span vessels, coasters, tableware and tumblers. Hand-built from porcelain in tribal-like and bold geometric patterns, glazed in black-and-white, gold, mustard and persimmon. She describes her process as akin to drawing, where the contours of a piece sometimes dictate the design, and sometimes a drawing seems to be what the form is asking for. For Sullivan, the core appeal is ceramics' timelessness. They hold within them physical remnants of the maker and the process. Her recent work engages the surreal atmosphere of Cold War espionage, using the language of secret codes and deception to interrogate fundamental questions about what is real and what is illusion.