Movement in Mud

Chloe Kobernuss is a San Francisco based ceramic artist working mainly in high-fire stoneware. Her sculptural work grows from the intuitive rhythm of process, where lines and forms hold the memory of hand and gesture. Surfaces are sometimes left bare but mostly worked obsessively smooth. Their shape and rhythm carrying the feeling of fluidity in motion. She leans into the tension between raw and refined, turning the process itself into both obsession and language. A dialogue between material, body, and emotion that lives in gesture rather than words.

"A dialogue between material, body, and emotion that lives in gesture rather than words."

Before clay, she spent twelve years in fine jewelry as a designer, project manager, and client relations at a Pacific Heights brick-and-mortar. There she was introduced to detailed work that required a high level of precision and care.

That attention now lives in objects made for the home. Sculptures, mirrors, and vessels that balance intention and intuition. Tableware that's tactile and pleasing to hold.

Chloe's work is carried by Dial M for Modern and has been shown at ACGA, Fog Art & Design Fair with Works In Progress and Renegade and West Coast Craft Fairs. Outside her studio practice, she teaches, runs workshops, and manages a ceramics studio in North Beach, San Francisco.