Sam Chung "Place/Setting"
The Jane Hartsook Gallery
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The Jane Hartsook Gallery presents a new installation by Arizona-based artist Sam Chung. For his New York City solo debut Chung has created a unique installation featuring place-settings on a custom built table for 16 people.
"A consistent point of departure for my work has been the ceramic vessel and grappling with the balance between form and function. I am interested in the way that pots have the unique ability to serve a multitude of roles and functions…There is always a fresh view of ideas and objects that blend the pragmatic with the poetic, and I find this to be an invigorating and relevant approach to making pottery…My most recent work explores more graphic line drawings that are inspired by various forms of script – Islamic calligraphy, graffiti, and Korean cloud motifs. While these references originate from different cultures, my attraction to this imagery is more formal...I am intrigued by the way that drawing can be re-introduced at the end of my process to create another voice in the conversation between form and function."—Sam Chung
Sam Chung was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and received his MFA from Arizona State University and his B.A. degree from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. In between undergrad and grad school he worked as a special post-bac student at the University of Minnesota. Chung taught at Northern Michigan University and is now teaching at Arizona State University in Tempe. He has had exhibitions at Cervini Haas, AKAR, Dubuque Museum of Fine Art, Sherry Leedy, Santa Fe Clay, Lacoste, Taipei County Yingge Museum, and the Incheon World Ceramic Center. Chung has work in the collections of the Crocker Art Museum, Incheon World Ceramic Center (Korea), Guldagergaard (Denmark), Shepparton Art Gallery (Australia), University of Arkansas, and Arizona State University Ceramics Research Center. Chung has attended residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Watershed, Guldagergaard (Denmark), The Pottery Workshop (China). Chung’s work has been included in such publications as Contemporary Ceramics, The Art of Contemporary American Pottery, The Complete Guide to High Fire Glazes, and Masters of Porcelain.
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Schedule
from March 03, 2011 to March 31, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-03-03 from 18:00 to 20:00