SONA GEVORKYAN
“CODE&CRAFT”
2025
Sona Gevorkyan is an Armenian-American architect and ceramic artist based in Los Angeles. Her practice moves between physical craft and digital form, using ceramics as a site for architectural thinking. Working across wheel-throwing, hand-building, slip-casting, and ceramic 3D printing, she uses these varied processes to investigate surface, structure, and material memory.
Her sculptural wheel-thrown vessels emphasize form, proportion, and spatial rhythm, while her slip-cast series—derived from 3D-printed molds, giving the form a consistent body—becomes an opportunity for color and glaze exploration. In her 3D-printed work, she codes bubble-like patterns into her forms to intentionally test the limits of precision, allowing the material to introduce variation, texture, and expressive imperfection. As the clay prints, the structure subtly yields to gravity, shrinkage, and chance — producing surfaces that are as much shaped by physical forces as by code.
Sona has exhibited her ceramic work with Oglebay Institute and at Do It Right Gallery in Marfa during the Agave Festival (2025), and is currently working on an upcoming show in Mexico. She has led ceramic 3D printing workshops at Still Life Ceramics and Woodbury University, and continues to expand her practice by pushing into technology while immersing herself in traditional methods across the US, Mexico, and Japan.
“Clay connects me to the ground and to the past. It invites relationships with everyday objects and faraway places; it allows me to dream and connect to the future.”
