SOWING AS THE WORLD ENDS is a stunning testament to the force and necessity of art as alarm… Mining personal experience for images that convey the sensitive and emotive unsayable, the artist renders them in clay, wood, and color in a complex and physically demanding process: vessels thrown, plywood cut to plane, clay carved, fired, broken, crammed, fixed, scribbled, and dash-stroked… It is a creative catharsis that is less yawp than war cry and generates work that surges at expressive and formal limits. — Mary Reilly
This is the closing week for the Canadian exhibition of new work by Jennie Jieun Lee—a contributing portfolio artist in our special print edition PARIS LA: Change Agents.
See link below for details.
JENNIE JIEUN LEE—SOWING AS THE WORLD ENDS
Through September 11.
Cooper Cole Gallery
1134 and 1136 Dupont Street, Toronto.
Jennie Jieun Lee, Sowing as the World Ends, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto, August 6, 2021–September 11, 2021, from top: Low and High Static, 2021, glazed porcelain, pencils, wood, resin; Anenomes and Sweetpeas, glazed porcelain, flashé, oil, wood, resin; installation view, including (from left) Vessel 3, 2021, Vessel 5, 2021, and Vessel 1, 2021, each wheel-thrown porcelain, glaze, underglaze, pencil; Transplants, 2021, glazed porcelain, flashé, oil, wood, resin; Hell on Earth, 2021, glazed porcelain, flashé, oil, wood, resin. Images © Jennie Jieun Lee, courtesy of the artist and Cooper Cole Gallery.
