Collection: Hannah Pierce - Featured Artist

Hannah Pierce is a ceramic and mixed-media artist based in Escondido, CA. She is the Assistant Professor of Fine Art in Ceramics and 3-D Design at San Diego Miramar College. She received her MFA in Ceramics from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and her BA in Studio Art at Humboldt State University in California. Hannah has exhibited her work in numerous galleries and museums, including The Clay Studio PHL, John Natsoulas Gallery, La Luz de Jesus, Atta Gallery (Thailand), the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the Erie Art Museum, the Canton Museum of Art, the Gyeonggi Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art (South Korea), the Chula Museum (Thailand), and the Bernardaud Foundation (France); As well as art fairs/conferences such as Aqua Arts Miami, Superfine! Arts Fair DC, and NCECA (2016-23). She was a Resident Artist at Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts as a Kiln God Award Recipient (2017), a Resident Artist at Baltimore Clayworks as the Abilities Fellowship Artist (2018-2019), and a Summer Resident at Studio 740 (2023). Hannah has been featured

Artist Statement:

My work consists of surreal, narrative sculptures, portraying bizarre characters and an abundance of visual metaphors. Within my playful, figurative configurations, I utilize deceptive, illustrative qualities and exaggerative forms to distort the viewer’s perspective and enhance the theatrical nature of these narrative works. The distortions create an absurd, disorienting space that offers the viewer a bodily, other-worldly experience. Within all my sculptures, the figures are visually separate from their surroundings in their illustrative, 2-dimensional format. This separation personifies an underlying tension and a sense of estrangement that many of us in our society can relate to.

Find Hannah’s Artaxis page: https://artaxis.org/artist/hannah-pierce

Find Hannah on Instagram: @hannah.ceramics