Federico Solmi (b. 1973) has long veered away from subtlety. His current exhibition, Adrift, announces itself the moment you walk in. Solmi’s epic painting, The Ship of Fools (2024) occupies an entire gallery wall....

As the Paul Phillips and Sharon Sullivan Curator of Ceramics at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York, I’m one of a small handful of contemporary ceramics curators in the...