Lydia Kardos is a San Diego visual artist working with a focus in ceramics. 
The contrasts of living in New York City, Mexico and California have impacted her visual language and sculptural voice.
A conversation of home, surroundings, and connection to spaces can be seen through storytelling in her colorful ceramic sculptures and nerikomi work. She reimagines the world around her creating each work as a "portal".  Magical realism and exaggerated, vivid colors inspire her objects as characters, undulating in form, lush with texture, the artist invites the viewer to an intimate space between two worlds of the present and fantasy. Her most recent exhibitions were in Boston, MA, New York, NY, and Brooklyn, NY.