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Yoonjee Kwak, 2017 Matsutani Fellow, 2018 Joan Lincoln Fellow
Originally from South Korea, Yoonjee earned her MFA in ceramics at the School for American Crafts at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2014 and her BFA in ceramics and glass at Hong-Ik University in Seoul, South Korea. She was a summer resident at the Bray in 2016 and was a resident artist and taught ceramics classes at RIT from 2014– 2017. In 2016, she was named an Emerging Artist in Ceramics Monthly magazine. To see more work by Yoonjee, visit the Bray's Online Sales Gallery |
Yoonjee Kwak makes sculptural vessels to represent human beings as iconic symbols from the Korean culture. In Korea, when people talk about someone’s personality, they often use “vessel” as a metaphor of one’s spirit of tolerance. Yoonjee’s interactive conversation with the clay is vital to her process—she slowly builds up clay coils from the bottom, allowing her hand marks to remain on the surface. Through this process of building, memories of patience and time come into her pieces and she is able to create a meaningful record of her practice.
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 Breath, 2018 porcelain, gold luster 22" x 14" x 14" and 18" x 11" x 11" |
 Hello Stranger, 2018 porcelain, gold luster 10" x 8" x 8" |
