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.

For twelve years she worked in a small high-end jewelry store in Pacific Heights, as a designer, project manager, fine jeweler, one of everything. A world where the work was precise and the stakes were personal. She learned to work at a level of detail many artists rarely touch. When she left, she leapt back into clay.

Her ceramic practice extends this language into objects that live in the home, sculptural mirrors, lamps, and vessels that are considered and intuative, and tableware that is tactile and pleasing to hold. This year, 2026, her sculptural mirrors were shown at Fog Art & Design Fair with Works In Progress.

Outside the studio, Chloe teaches, runs workshops, and manages a ceramics studio in North Beach.