Bio

Bio

Lisa Reardon (she/her, b. 1980, Cape Town, South Africa) is a ceramic artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Trained initially as a fashion buyer, she brings a refined sensitivity to form and material to her sculptural practice. Working primarily with clay, Reardon creates organic, expressive structures that interrogate femininity, balance, and the tension between control and excess. She maintains an experimental studio practice and exhibits her work in gallery settings.

Artists statement 

My studio is a space where time falls away, allowing me to escape and process the structures of domestic life. Working intuitively with clay is cathartic: I hand-build quickly, often working on multiple sculptures at once, embracing immediacy, risk, and spontaneity. I frequently fire work before it is fully dry to encourage cracking and kiln-driven unpredictability, then enter cycles of breaking, rearranging, reattaching, and glazing—sometimes using a hammer—trusting form to emerge through deconstruction and reassembly. Glaze becomes form and clay becomes surface. The resulting sculptures are rarely finished, existing in a state of negotiation that mirrors nature’s organized messiness. Organic, feminine, and earthy in presence, they balance overgrown, untamed forms with moments of smoothness and relief, inviting viewers to find their own associations through surprise and intuitive discovery.