South China Sea + Resurfaced Eccentricities
Years of studio practice in Hong Kong shaped the South China Sea Series and Resurfaced Eccentricities Series, linking coastal experience, ceramic form, and evolving surface language.
Ceramic Artist · Researcher · Educator
Clay, landscape, fire, and transformation.
Martie Geiger-Ho explores the physical and psychological relationships between clay, place, geological process, and transformation through ceramic vessels, sculpture, research, and teaching.
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Art formed through earth, place & transformation
Clay is both material and landscape: a tactile record of earth shaped through memory, atmosphere, intuition, and fire.
Ongoing Series
Terraformation
Terraformation grows from an intimate relationship with clay as both an artistic material and a substance of the earth. Inspired by landscapes, seascapes, geological formations, erosion, atmosphere, and memory, each ceramic work becomes a small terrain in itself.
Wheel-thrown and handbuilt forms allow controlled decisions to coexist with spontaneity. Surface, mineral color, glaze, and kiln heat become collaborators in a process that can be guided but never completely controlled.
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Recent Vessels · 2026
Porcelain, glaze, glass, luster, and hand-built interventions.
Material + Fire
Transformation is also chromatic.
Against the quieter mineral blues and fog-toned surfaces of the current body of work, White Sands Over Red introduces a concentrated field of heat, saturation, and granular surface activity.
Beyond the Studio
Art + Research
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Kiln God Research
Martie's research examines Chinese kiln-god worship, mythology, ritual, and the transmission of kiln-god concepts into Western ceramic culture.
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Publications
Her scholarly work includes The Worship of Kiln Gods: From the Temples of China to the Studios of Western Potters and peer-reviewed writing on kiln gods and ceramic traditions.
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Performance + Ritual
Performance works connect fire, ceramic practice, mythology, and ritual as embodied extensions of her research.
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Hong Kong · Brunei · Japan · Taiwan
Field research, teaching, residencies, and encounters with local ceramic traditions continually reshape the studio practice.
Origins of Terraformation
Local clays, coastal landscapes, and material experimentation became the foundation of the ongoing Terraformation series.
Shigaraki
Residency and exhibition experiences extended an inquiry into surface, landscape, and ceramic tradition.
Yingge
Research and residency deepened long-term engagement with kiln culture, place, and contemporary ceramics.
In the Studio
From earth to form.
Material, place, memory, and fire converge through the ceramic process.
The studio is where research becomes tactile. Wheel-thrown and handbuilt forms move between function, sculpture, landscape, and imagined terrain.
Selected Exhibitions
Recent + International
2025
The Great Attractor
Novi Civic Center Atrium Gallery · Novi, Michigan
2023
Raked Garden
New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum · Taiwan
2019
Raking the Dry Garden
Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park · Japan
About Martie
Artist, researcher, educator.
Martie Geiger-Ho is a ceramic artist, researcher, and educator whose practice brings together studio ceramics, sculpture, art history, and the study of kiln-god traditions. She earned a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary fine arts and an M.F.A. from Texas Tech University and has taught in the United States, Brunei, and Hong Kong. Her work has been exhibited internationally, supported by residencies in Taiwan, Japan, Canada, and the United States.