Blackburn combines wisdom she’s gleaned from a career of more than 30 years in the arts, including UCLA’s architecture department and MoCA LA, with skill from her training as a painter. The works on view in her current exhibition reflect influences from architecture, nature, painting, and a desire to challenge notions of tradition in the ceramics discipline. The artist takes cues from contemporary painting to inform the works’ textural surfaces and glazing, while nods to architecture are present in the vessels’ shapes and forms.