Young Sook Park

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 degrees Celsius and clay-making to a maturity time between 6 to 10 years in order to produce a perfect 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.