Justin Crowe
Seohee Park creates hand-thrown Korean pottery inspired by Joseon Dynasty porcelain with flawless craftsmanship and figurative forms. One of the most challenging aspects of making precisionist ceramics is developing glazes to compliment or accentuate your design. The precisionist potter is at constant risk of tiny flaws like iron flecks, the glaze being 1mm too think, or slight warping – everything is exaggerated in a reductive practice. Park creates work with unbelievable grace and gives life to her pottery though photography, shooting it in groups to show off the slight variations from form-to-form. This type of grouping is reminiscent of the late-Australian potter Gwyn Hanssen Pigott.
Park’s forms are inspired by Joseon Dynasty porcelain and decorated with carved curves and beautiful soft celadon glazes. She sensitively uses line as a language to inform the viewer about weight, fragility, form, and motion. The minimalism and geometry create a shockingly modern look for forms that where popularized over a century ago.
Park has her BFA and MFA in ceramics from the College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, South Korea. After receiving her Masters in 2016, she has gone on to win the Honorable Mention award at The 5th Beautiful Korean Ceramics Competition, be selected as a finalist at ‘Talente 2017’ (Germany), and win Honorable Mention at the 2017 MINO International Ceramic Competition (Japan).
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