About Isabella Maroon

Isabella Maroon is a Pennsylvania-based artist known for creating vibrant, captivating ceramic sculptures. Her work often incorporates fragmented pieces that are reassembled to give them a powerful new meaning. Her artistic process involves taking sculptures apart — using tools like a hammer or clippers — and repurposing the fragments. She builds upon these foundations by incorporating fragments of previous work and sending them through multiple firings.

Her pieces explore concepts of movement and nonconformity. She has created both large, abstract pieces that incorporate choice and chance, as well as smaller, representational works that use symbolism and text. Isabella is interested in connections between humans and the environment, and environments to memory based on personal experience, and collective recollection. Considering art as an approach to processing the past, she seeks to create, through form and color, moments that obscure and reveal the poetic nature of our lives.

“Making with clay is a process everyone should try at some point in their life. There’s something about the ability to take raw materials and transform them into something tangible and meaningful. I discover endless possibilities emerge when creativity meets clay and the final product is placed in the kiln. My worries dissipate and I can be in the moment. Something most of us rarely have the chance for in today’s society. Now, I’d like to share this experience with others by opening my studio to the public. It is more than a business; it’s a place where people can disconnect from the daily grind, connect with their creativity, and discover the joy of giving life to forms.” — Isabella Maroon