Julia Dankov

Julia Dankov is a ceramic artist whose work emerges from the intersection between the classical and the contemporary. Sculptural in nature, her vessels are an invitation to celebrate emotion and stillness over function and movement. She draws inspiration from the silhouettes and proportions of Ancient Greek vessels, as well as Japanese wabi sabi textures and details. To achieve a harmonious marriage of such aesthetics, she utilizes various pinching, coiling, and hand painting techniques.

Julia’s methods of making are all-embracing of the inherently organic and raw nature of her primary medium, clay. Iron-rich black and red stoneware clay bodies are decidedly at the center of every collection, as they interact with surface decorations and finishings in unexpected ways. These clay bodies’ specific minerals create gasses that escape through glaze, creating textural imperfections within the sometimes biomorphic, sometimes brutalist contours of Julia’s vessels.