Morgan Peck is a ceramicist living in Los Angeles. Her namesake ceramic company, started in 2011, includes mirrors, lamps, sculptures and vases all made in her backyard studio.
Playing with the plasticity of clay, Morgan Peck’s hand built ceramic objects bring whimsical curves and waves to functional pieces. Her classic glaze colors and playful shapes tell a story by mixing references from the past and present. With a style distinctly personal to the maker, each piece is unique to itself, in a way only handmade objects can be.
As the daughter of an art teacher and woodworker all kinds of handmade objects were valued above any other. The skill of intuiting how something was made and recreating it on your own was a sort of family ethos. She attended art school for photography, making a switch to Russian history before graduating from Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington.
Staying true to her upbringing, Peck wanted to create objects that would not live in museums, but in homes and in people's hands. Taking the two worlds of fine art and craft as her own, her handbuilt pieces are infused with sleek modern design references and approachable marks of craftsmanship.
Peck’s work continues in the footsteps of the studio potters that preceded her and she takes note of numerous styles, hinting at the Memphis Group, the Bauhaus, and Art Deco. Sometimes reproducing the forms of Venetian glass and the splotchy surfaces of 19th century spongeware, she moves through these references with a modest, considered, and decidedly modern touch.