Jeremy Anderson first launched the lighting and furniture studio Apparatus with Gabriel Hendifar, his partner in work and life, in 2012. In the eight years since, the two have become inimitable leaders in New York’s design community. Now, Anderson takes a step back to pursue another passion: ceramic art. He debuts a series of sculptural vessels, called “piccolos,” which resemble anthropomorphic sky-gazing creatures that he assembles from wheel-thrown elements. Anderson describes their circular openings as the point of origin for each piece’s personality, which he deepens through a meditative, hours-long process of painting reverberating lines. As a group, the piccolos feel playful yet poignant, musing on the endless diversity of human characteristics. —Ryan Waddoups

Photography by Maggie Nimkin