Experience Logan Wall's Vision-Bending Geometric Pottery Designs

Logan Wall is a ceramic designer who focuses on playful handcrafted geometric pottery. She earned her BFA from the University of North Florida in 2015 and has since gone on to be a resident artist and instructor at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, New York. Recently, Wall’s work was featured in the Rising Stars exhibition at the CAC.

A potters focus on balancing composition, user experience, and ergonomics brings design into works of craft and art. Design transcends the tools and methods used to achieve the final product. Having knowledge of the creation process is unnecessary to have a full experience of the final piece. This means, that despite using a pottery wheel, molds, hand-building or other methods, that the focus isn’t on technique. For makers, one of the most compelling aspects of ceramics is the process, but customers often fall in love with the finished piece, having no knowledge of how it was actually produced. The trance of ceramic phenomena can be problematic for makers who focus so intently on process that design and art get neglected.

Thoughtful design is seen clearly in the work of Logan Wall. While she uses the potters wheel for much of her work, it is a mean to end, not the center of her practice. Wall transforms the intrinsically round output of the wheel into geometric pottery delights, referencing architecture and playing with layers on layers of flat shapes. Through addition and subtraction, her forms and decoration give the viewer a reason to take a longer look to unwrap what they are seeing.

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So much can come from three simple shapes: circle, triangle, and square. Layering two-dimensional shapes on top of three-dimensional forms create layers of navigable visual depth. This meta way of designing results in layers of geometry on geometry. As the geometry references itself, it adds to the cohesion of the design.

With big bites and slices taken out of her pots, Wall lets the viewer fill in missing parts – she is utilizing gestalt principles in tableware. Our vision sees the missing pieces and places them back mentally, forming the basis of a playful user experience and allowing the user to take part in the design.

Follow Logan Wall on Instagram @loganwallceramics to see more of her geometric pottery designs.

See Wall and her work at NCECA 2018 Pittsburgh in the expo hall. She is exhibiting with Objective Clay and The Clay Art Center. Gallery hours in the expo hall are Tuesday 13th 6:30pm-8pm, Wednesday & Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 16th 9am-4pm.