Savannah Baker,
Dreamscape

February 26 - March 1, 2026

The Other Art Fair
Los Angeles
Booth 154

One Grand Gallery is pleased to present gallery artist Savannah Baker at the 2026 The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles. Baker will be debuting a new collection of stoneware works in her signature palladium glaze. Find us at Booth 154 from February 26 - March 31st.  

Savannah Baker is a Portland, Oregon based ceramic artist whose sculptural work explore the intersection of grief, nostalgia, and the quiet beauty of everyday life. Born and raised in Boise, Idaho her works are rooted in deep emotional inquiry, pulling inspiration from childhood, as well as her personal trials and triumphs. Baker received a BFA in Ceramics in 2019 from Boise State University before making her way to the Pacific Northwest. Savannah’s practice is equally defined by its technical precision and her commitment to expanding the expressive possibilities of clay. Her hand-built ceramic sculptures reflect an intimate relationship with the material.

Through hand-built forms, Baker pushes the boundaries of traditional ceramics by challenging expectations of the medium. Her sculptures are inspired by 90’s childhood imagery, traditional tattoos, sentimental objects, and her experiences with loss. Scale, subtle symmetry, and structural balance are all elements considered within her designs. Her pieces embrace softness with sharpness, light with shadow, and a quiet femininity that gives each form both delicacy and strength. Baker’s objects draw viewers in through a sense of familiarity before revealing layered emotional depths, pressed into the surfaces of each piece.

Baker’s process begins with traditional hand-building techniques like slab construction, coil and pinch methods. The clays surface is altered through careful hand sculpting, slowly building up the material to create layered textures. The fired clay is then finished with hand painting or airbrushed glaze. The spontaneity within Baker’s process allows her to shift fluidly between precision and play. The attention to surface detail deepens the emotional resonance of each intricate piece.

While sculptural in nature, many of her works are intended to live within the rhythms of daily life. Her sculptures invite quiet rituals through which memory, loss, and tenderness are intertwined. The flick of a light switch, a glance in the mirror on the way out the door, the soft glow of a candle invite gentle encounters which blur the lines between art and utility. Baker’s sculptures become points of contact where function enhances intimacy, these moments of use are not separate from the work’s emotional weight.

Savannah Baker’s work redefines ceramics as a vessel for emotional storytelling in which process, material, and memory are held in equal regard.




@savannahbaker.art
savannahbaker.art

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Previous Exhibitions:

Clay Bodies

April 11 - May 9, 2025

One Grand Gallery is pleased to present Clay Bodies, a group ceramics show with Portland-based artists James Alby, Savannah Baker, Miranda Karson, and Calvin Wong. This will be the first occasion in which these four makers are presenting work in conversation with one another, melding their distinct styles and mediums.

In ceramic communities, “clay bodies” refers to the specific mixture of clay types used by an artist to achieve a desired effect. Firing temperature, workability, and fired density are all taken into account as the maker formulates and hones their unique technique. For this exhibition, each ceramicist has considered the manner in which fine art intersects with craft and functionality. The artworks on display range from free-standing figures to wall mounted designs, as well as decorative vases, candelabras, and miniature sculptures. This combination of varied ephemera naturally creates moments of interiority within the space of the gallery, allowing viewers to fluidly move between the individual pieces and narratives.


James Alby is a ceramic artist based in Portland, OR, originally from the island of Guam. He began his pottery journey in July 2023. His wheel-thrown creations—sometimes sculptural, chaotic and sometimes flat, calm—are as much about the form as they are about the technical work in the creation of the piece. He often creates in the moment and feels his way through the process rather than planning ahead. He is also a professional skateboarder and creates in many other ways but pottery is his main focus.

Savannah Baker graduated from Boise State University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in ceramics and currently resides in Portland, OR. Although her main medium tends to be ceramics she enjoys everything from drawing and painting to film photography. Her works are inspired by imagery from childhood, think Hot Wheels meets Lisa Frank, mixing hyper feminine pastel colors and soft shapes with more masculine imagery and symbolisms.

Miranda Karson is a ceramicist and painter producing home goods & sculpture in Portland, OR with a focus on handbuilt ceramics, working with sculptural, functional, and functionally-curious objects. They are a firm believer that people should love their Things. Miranda’s work celebrates and questions every-day utilitarian and aesthetic objects of the home. Her pots, from the vessel to the chair, are studies of body, material, memory, ritual, romance, and the diffusion of self. The work encourages a slower pace of making, seeing, and using.

Calvin Wong is an artist based in Portland, Oregon.



@alby_there4u
jamesalby.com

@lady.bluu
www.ladybluu.com

@_miranda.jesse
www.mirandajesseceramics.com

@wongweiceramics
wongweiceramics.com

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