Joan Lurie Ceramics

Following an active career in photography, she received an Individual Photographer’s Fellowship from the Aaron Siskind Foundation in 1991 after exhibiting her work across the United States. Her photographic practice, ranging from images of ceramics and craft objects to macro and micro studies of biological and plant forms, architecture and technology, became a foundational influence in her later transition to clay. 

This interest in material presence and surface led Lurie to focus exclusively on ceramics in 2000. Since then, her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the International Ceramics Competition in Mino, Japan, the International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics in Croatia, and the International Ceramics Biennale in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, as well as fairs such as the Affordable Art Fair in New York, Art Chicago, Art Market Hamptons, Scope Miami, Scope New York and, Art Houston.

In 2009, she was a resident artist at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Her practice continues to reflect a sensitivity to form, surface, and observation, shaped by her photographic eye and sustained engagement with material transformation.