Abby Richardson is a Santa Fe-based artist and architect whose sculptural ceramic works explores form and space held through tension, fragmentation, and balance through angular geometric forms.  With roots in both Texas and New York, she earned her Master’s in Architecture from Parsons School of Design, later joining its faculty as a design studio instructor. Her practice explores themes of space, form, color, and material at the architectural scale. Her fragmented geometric forms hover between architectural structure and collapse.

After moving to New Mexico from New York in 2021, Richardson has been focused on work in ceramics that is small, immediate and raw. Her sculptural practice is rapid, and intuitive with an emphasis on accumulation, repetition, seriality. She fires her pieces communally with a group of like-minded artists: a ritual which she believes is central to the work. The volatility of the wood-fire processes allows for a productive loss of control whereby the organic compounds in the clay itself create unpredictable effects.

Richardson’s work has been exhibited throughout New Mexico and Texas and featured in publications including Southwest Contemporary, Albuquerque Journal, and Suboart Magazine. Her evolving sculptural practice explores tension, repetition, and material transformation through ceramic forms shaped by fire, accumulation, and architectural space.

Get in touch with Abby: @abbyelle.ceramics abby@abbyellestyle.com