Thursday, September 24, 2026

Julia Kunin: Electric Dream Machines
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

With their lustrous surfaces and evocative shapes, the ceramic works of Brooklyn-based artist Julia Kunin aim for maximum sensory overload. Kunin forges disparate influences like Art Deco, Surrealism, and queer abstraction into shimmering ceramic sculptures. For Kunin, discovery and free association reign supreme. Kunin's mental process echoes her physical process, ping-ponging from one concept to the next. An allusion to a surrealist artist might lead to a rabbit hole about geopolitics or queer identity. Kunin follows her trail of breadcrumbs with rigorous research—she has even learned entire languages to facilitate her work.