Young Sook Park
Born: 1947
Hometown: Kyungju, Korea
Lives and Works: Seoul, Korea
About The Artist
Young Sook Park grew up in Korea, a country with a longstanding ceramic arts tradition. By studying the purity of form found in traditional techniques and infusing them with a modern sensibility, Park developed her own style by constantly experimenting with different materials, scales and forms. She pushed the firing techniques to over 1300 °C and clay-making to a maturity time between 6 to 10 years in order to produce a prefect fusion of clay and glaze. Because of the innovations she introduced to the medium and the originality she infused into ceramics over the last 20 years, she is considered a modern master, an artist who forged a new tradition within the Korean ceramic arts.
Galleries
RH Gallery, New York, NY
Atelier Seoul, Seoul, Korea
Select Permanent Collections
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, CA
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
British Museum, London, England
Korean National Folklore Museum, Seoul, Korea
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Musée Royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Canadian Government House, Ottawa, Canada
Korean Consulate, New York, NY
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Works by the Artist
