Sophie Iannone (she/her) creates functional ceramics with water-etched surface designs, suspended elements, tile attachments, and scattered indents that capture light and shadow, creating a landscape of shifting depth. She is currently experimenting with atmospheric firing techniques to compliment the rectilinear, tile-like and mechanical qualities of her pieces.

Her interest in the composition of forms was most strongly influenced by a familial connection to architecture. Her grandfather was an architect, and she grew up understanding the built environment as the quiet but strong force shaping how people move through space and interact with one another. In her early twenties, Iannone studied urban planning and developed an interest in digital design and the photographic documentation of cities. Her awareness of the city as a macro-organism emerged, prompting lifelong interest in the fixed and animate components of cities, the networks that link them, and her place within that tapestry. 

Her current body of work is inspired by the grid systems and rhythms of the built environment, seeking to replicate the architectural language of modern, bauhaus and brutalist design into intimate, everyday objects. Through ceramic, she explores the beauty of the built environment's familiarity and order, and its role as the backdrop to civic life—a quiet counterpoint to the animation of living things within it.