In 2015, New York-based artist Tracie Hervy set aside her profession in architecture to resume the plan she had made for herself back in 2009: making a living selling pots.

Having obtained an MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design, Hervy always knew she would return to ceramics and working with her hands. With utility and essentialism as the driving forces behind her work, each piece is understated in design and a testament to its functional form. To Hervy, the importance of craft remains in the making—not only the conception—of the things we use in our everyday lives.

Wheel-thrown in both stoneware and porcelain in an ever-changing array of hand-formulated glazes, the constants in Tracie Hervy's work have always remained the same: smooth surfaces, subtle design, and useful forms.