Unruly Reverence
YEHRIM LEE
June 13 - August 31
Unruly Reverence brings together new works from Yehrim Lee’s Kkotsal [꽃살] and Soban [소반] series, where traditional Korean craft forms are reimagined through movement, abundance, and material risk.
In her Kkotsal Moon Flower works, Lee draws inspiration from the floral carvings found on Korean Buddhist temple doors, where patterns are carved from a single slab of mulberry wood. Translating this act of removal into clay, Lee incises, presses, and builds forms that hold an unruly beauty through tension: difficult angles, shifting surfaces, transforming drips, textures, and glaze.
The Soban Top Table works extend this exploration into sculptural furniture, merging vessel and table, object and offering. Hand-built using traditional Onggi jar-making methods passed down through her family of ceramicists, Lee’s practice honors Korean ceramic history while pushing it toward forms that are at once reverent, unruly, and alive.
Oneseo Choi
A fascination with industrial systems and fabrication processes informs a practice that moves fluidly between furniture, object, and sculpture.
Chulan Kwak
The energy of the brushstroke becomes a three-dimensional language of structure, rhythm, and space.
Hyunhee Kim
Draws from traditional Korean furniture to examine memory, nostalgia, and the relationship between past and present.
Mujin
"In my journey with the Moon Jar, I've come to recognize that true freedom is less a destination and more an embrace."
Eunhyeon Ahn
Inspired by the warm glow of the dusk sky, Ahn concentrates on this time of day when surroundings fade away and an object’s form often radiates into focus with the last light.
Hyeonyoung Kim
An ongoing investigation into the autonomy of clay reveals unexpected forms shaped by heat, chemistry, and chance.
Hyobeen Bang
The circle becomes a recurring motif through which ideas of connection, continuity, and belonging take form.
Minwoo Chae
Individual ceramic modules become the building blocks of larger structures, revealing the generative potential of repetition and variation.