LILY FEIN: Night Blooms

Lily Fein: Night Blooms

Opening Reception: June 13, 2026 5-7 pm
Artist Talk: June 14, 2 pm

Lucy Lacoste Gallery announces it’s presentation of Night Blooms, a solo exhibition of works by the ceramic artist Lily Fein on from June 13 -- July 11, 2026 in Concord MA. This exhibition marks Fein’s third Solo Show with the Gallery and showcases a body of work that represents Fein’s continued ceramic exploration into the ceramic object as a vessel for exploring personal identity.

More than 20 unique vessels alongside 2 oil paintings compose this exhibition. Each ceramic piece is coiled and pinched porcelain, fired to a high temperature, creating a vitrified and bright backdrop for her whimsical designs and patterns.

Fein’s works have long focused on exploring a form’s potential to convey movement and intimacy; her actual fingerprints are left on each piece. This body of work contains Fein’s signature coiled and pinched, and stippling processes as well as newer carving techniques such as sgraffito.

Since making a home in New Orleans, Louisiana far from her first home of Massachusetts, Fein has found it meaningful to dive into her own family history, using a map of her grandparents’ hometown in Pułtusk, Poland as a touchstone. The particular map, elements of which can be found in various pieces throughout the show, was drawn by a cousin of her grandfather who grew up in the town. Fein draws from the many cross-cultural examples within the history of ceramics where clay tablets and/or vessels are used to map out regions and places. The rivers, town lines, and shtetls, are fragmented across this entire body of work and mirror the fragmented nature of Fein’s relationship to a place that, while is essential to her family history, she has herself never set foot in. The works therefore become both acts of remembrance and acts of invention, tracing the emotional terrain between belonging and absence.

Fein has been working in clay for fifteen years. She received her BFA from Syracuse University and has since been invited to do ceramic residencies around the country including at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT, The Society of Arts and Crafts in Boston, and Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN. She currently works in her home studio in New Orleans yet will be moving this Fall to pursue a Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Alfred University.

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