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 and at Folklore gallery in Santa Fe. She was also recognized as an International Emerging Artist in the May 2025 issue of Suboart Magazine. She continues to show her work throughout the region and is currently developing new bodies of work rooted in the material rhythms of fire, form, and place.

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