The awe-inspiring vastness of Montana’s landscapes is ever-present in ceramic artist Casey Zablocki’s monumental works. Living and working amid the dramatic terrain of the Rocky Mountains naturally translates into sculptures of sheer scale and visual weight – almost primordial in form and surface treatment. Zablocki uses one of the largest wood-fired anagama kilns in the US to produce such massive pieces, which are cracked, eroded, and discoloured, as if formed and then slowly degraded over many millennia, just like the valleys and crevices of the geology in his workshop’s vicinity.

‘If you look at my work, it references all of that [landscape] without even trying, because that's just where I live, and I'm surrounded by this beauty,’ Zablocki tells Wallpaper* ahead of his latest exhibition, at Roman & Williams’ Guild Gallery in New York City.

The solo show presents his latest body of work, ‘Ceramic Furniture’, which includes over 20 pieces that evoke a lost brutalist civilisation or ancient rock formations, as if uncovered in the gallery space after being buried under the earth for an age. ‘They feel like they’re almost coming out of the ground, or have been part of the ground,’ says the artist.