Makers from Guadalajara and New York Collaborate on Satin-Glazed Ceramics

In 2018, José Noé Suro of Cerámica Suro, a leading ceramics workshop in Mexico, was visiting New York when he stumbled upon a line gathered outside a factory building. It led him into a pottery sale, where he met ceramicist and photographer Helen Levi. Talks of a collaboration between the Guadalajara maker and Queens-based New York native began shortly thereafter. The resulting satin-glazed earthenware series consists of two tile groupings. Hand-painted 3 ½-square-inch Color Field is like mini abstract-art canvases, while the solid Corduroy, in 3 ½- or 4 ½-square sizes, recalls its namesake fabric. Proof of the tiles’ desirability? Peach Color Fields have just been installed at the latest outpost of woman-owned brewery Talea Beer Co. in Williamsburg.