Pae White is a multimedia artist whose practice transcends traditional boundaries between art, craft, and design. With a playful and poetic vision, the artist coaxes magic from ordinary materials. For her series of hyper-iridescent wall-hanging ceramics, like Buried Rainbow, White takes inspiration from various forms of mark-making, including textile patterning, Japanese basket weaving, and even typography.

She employs a large array of nontraditional tools, ranging from clothes pins, batteries, and plastic forks, to make a variety of imprints. Using her signature glazing process (a PVD vacuum chamber with extreme pressure and temperature), White creates a gemstone-like surface that shifts in color as the viewer moves around the...