Jessamyn Go is a Long Island ceramic artist, sculptor, and educator based in Mastic Beach, New York. Her practice moves between hand-built sculpture, functional wheel-thrown vessels, and large-scale works for public and outdoor spaces.
Recurring biomorphic forms—hearts, faces, geological shapes, and abstracted bodies—appear throughout her work as vessels for ideas of energy, memory, transformation, connection, and time.
Go’s studio practice extends into public art and collaborative community projects, including environmental installations and accessible ceramics programs across Long Island. Her work has been exhibited internationally and throughout New York, including the Florence Biennale, 1000 Vases in Paris and Milan, Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall, MOCA Long Island, and The Other Art Fair Brooklyn. Currently the ceramic installation Chronoform is exhibited at Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island, curated by Tom Cugliani and also has a curated selection of Raku Vases at The Parrish Art Museum store.
She holds a B.S. in Studio Art from New York University, teaches pottery classes and ceramics workshops from her Long Island studio, Gallery North, and Clayform Studio. As an community advocate for cultural arts she serves on the Suffolk County Citizens Advisory Board.
“I obsessively create hand-built ceramic sculptures. My work consumes me, shaped by concepts of memory, time, transformation, and our responses to the world around us. Some days that looks like sculptural anatomical hearts that serve as beacons for empathy, love, and peace. Other days I’m pouring porcelain slip, or pressing terracotta into plaster molds, casting hundreds of impressions of my face, and attaching them to wheel thrown forms like stickers on a lamp post.
I also create wheel-thrown vessels that I raku fire, suffocate in flames and smoke, conjuring metallic luster through an alchemical process of reduction. I build sculptures that ask for your touch, where glazes like textural crawls, and magma are layered, where metallics, celadons and shinos add depth. Watch the sculpture pulse and breathe as you dance around them again and again.
I’m interested in engagement. My work isn’t linear in influence, process, or emotion. It’s fluid, distracted, intuitive, and chaotic. It moves between personal healing, material experimentation, imagination and larger questions about energy, connection, ancestry, and time.
You’ll find my sculptures in galleries, art shows, retail stores and occasionally out in the wild… literally!”
What does Femme Sole mean?
“For me the significance of “Femme Sole” amplifies the existence of Womxn owned businesses. Each Femme Sole ceramic piece encapsulates the vitality and spirit of the brave individuals who confront the ongoing struggle for peace, engaging in a relentless fight against violence and oppression directed towards the vulnerable, including Womxn, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ communities.”
Click here for a historical context of the words “Femme Sole”.
I acknowledge the Unkechaug Nation, the original stewards of the land where I live and work in Mastic Beach, NY. I honor their enduring relationship to this land and recognize their ongoing cultural, spiritual, and environmental contributions. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging, and extend that respect to Indigenous communities connected to the materials and traditions within my practice.