Work.
How the work is made, the pieces that came out of it, and the exhibitions and places behind it.
Four ways
of working.
Wheel-Thrown Series
The wheel is the center of the practice. Cups, bowls, vases, pitchers, moon jars and lidded forms, made over nearly a decade at the wheel and meant to be used.
Sculptural Objects
These limited, non-functional works grow out of the vessel. Cavity, balance and shadow come from architectural thinking, and the form changes as you walk around it.
Hand-Built Forms
Slabs, coils and direct hand-forming keep the construction visible. Walls and planes lean into asymmetry.
Studio Commissions
Bespoke dining sets, restaurant ware, graduation gifts, private collections, and site-specific sculptural works. Each commission is developed through a collaborative conversation around use, atmosphere, and material.
Clay starts as mud in the ground, turned and shaped by hand to create new life and beginnings.
Daniel’s artwork sits between functional design and sculpture. His more recent work begins from an ordinary gesture and ends somewhere new.
Fired
differently.
Anagama, soda salt, luster, copper matte, raku and saggar firings, in Colorado and Türkiye.
The work,
up close.
Open any piece for its story, material notes and closer photos.
Ascendance
Wheel-thrown artwork · figures in motion
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Radiance
Moon jar · Giallo 94 AP and Nero glaze
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Handbuilt sculpture · cavity and space
Open artwork ↗Kiss
Handbuilt sculpture · tenderness and rupture
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Knight Moon Jar
Moon jar · Knight family
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Knight Bust
Figurative sculpture · Knight family
Open artwork ↗Exhibitions
and origins.
Exhibitions, education and research.
The wheel also travels under pressure, in public, against the clock.
Daniel has represented the United States in Faenza, Menemen, and Menton. The competition index holds those performance-based chapters alongside the studio archive.
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