Abby Richardson
Artist Bio
Abby Richardson is a Santa Fe-based artist and architect whose work explores form, space, and community. 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.
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 recently featured in the New Mexico Potters and Clay Artists’ 50th-anniversary show in Taos. Her pieces were also at Folklore Gallery in Santa Fe December - March. Also, she recently was selected as an emerging artist for the Suboart Magazine May 2025 issue.
@abbyelle.ceramics