Sam Chung
Porcelain and overglaze
6x11x5.5"
2020
Statement
My work draws influence from historical ceramics and design motifs as a point of reference to talk about notions of cross-cultural identity. While my pottery forms are inspired by traditional Korean ceramics, they serve primarily as a “ghost” image of what is lost through culture and time. I am interested in how these old forms transform into new objects that provoke my own perception of belonging within or outside of a culture.
Biography
Sam Chung lives and works in Tempe, Arizona where he is a Professor of Ceramics at Arizona State University. He creates pottery that reframes historical ceramics from a cross-cultural perspective and explores the metaphorical role of the vessel. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally at Harvey Preston, Duane Reed, Gallery IMA, Ann Linnemann Gallery (Denmark), ClayAKAR, Greenwich House Pottery and other venues. Sam’s work is included in the collections of the Everson Museum, The Crocker Art Musuem, Weisman Art Museum, Icheon World Ceramic Center (Korea), Keramikmuseum Westerwald (Germany) and Guldagergaard (Denmark).

A graduate of the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture and the San Francisco Art Institute, Tara has been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, Penland School of Crafts, the Santa Fe Art Institute and received a fellowship to be in residence at the Vermont Studio Center.
To grapple with the sixth mass extinction and climate breakdown, she completed a Permaculture Design Course in 2018, Fritjof Capra’s Systems Thinking course in 2019 and became part of the Earth Regenerators Study Group in 2020

Tara Daly is a Californian sculptor working in ceramics who makes paintings and textiles in material driven processes that explore power, collapse and connection. She has exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Richmond Arts Center, Contemporary Craft Center among other non-profit art centers and galleries nationally.


A graduate of the Santa Monica College of Design, Art and Architecture and the San Francisco Art Institute, Tara has been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts, Penland School of Crafts, the Santa Fe Art Institute and received a fellowship to be in residence at the Vermont Studio Center.
To grapple with the sixth mass extinction and climate breakdown, she completed a Permaculture Design Course in 2018, Fritjof Capra’s Systems Thinking course in 2019 and became part of the Earth Regenerators Study Group in 2020

Tara Daly is a Californian sculptor working in ceramics who makes paintings and textiles in material driven processes that explore power, collapse and connection. She has exhibited at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Richmond Arts Center, Contemporary Craft Center among other non-profit art centers and galleries nationally.

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