Jess Young
Red stoneware
3.75 x 3.75 x 3.75”
Artist Statement/Biography
Jess Young is an artist, writer, story-teller, educator, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Their art practice is informed by Chinese and American craft based processes, familial oral history and community research. Through tactile healing processes and learning from generational memory they explore the concepts of wholeness and the ways we can disrupt binary systems.
Jess’s identity as a non-binary, mixed, 2nd generation Chinese-American in the Bay Area motivates their work to unlearn and (re)write a (her)story with a nuanced representation. For healing and for those who are underrepresented or find themselves in-between communities.
Jess received their BFA from California College of the Arts in 2018. They have presented work in solo exhibitions at College Ave. Gallery (Oakland, CA) and in group exhibitions at Kearny Street Workshop (San Francisco, CA). They have also curated exhibitions and organized events at Dream Farm Commons (Oakland, CA) and are currently on the curatorial committee and the sustainability project director at Dream Farm Commons.

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.

applied contemporary
craft gallery
@applied_contemporary
473 25th St # D, Oakland, CA 94612