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What fascinates
me as an artist is how memory is traced through time.
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And how, in this way, our inner
selves show on our surfaces.
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When I see steel rods at a
construction site, the rusted skin of the
steel
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presents a beautiful pattern.
This pattern fuses the present moment to
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the intimate past that made
and shaped the steel. I think of the passing
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time and space, and I am left
in a meditative euphoria.
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The relationship between the
surface and the interior cannot be severed.
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I repeatedly ask myself:
Who am I? Where have I been? Where am I going?
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My aesthetic voice in my ceramic
sculptures tries to find answers,
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in a delicate, yet crucial
blend of traditional Korean surfacing methods
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and contemporary objects. This
is my endless journey.
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| Sukjin Choi received a BFA and
an MFA in ceramics from Ewha Womans |
| University in Seoul, South Korea and
an MFA in ceramics from Cranbrook |
| Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan. Since 2007, she has been |
| head of the Ceramics program in the
School of Art, Design, and Art History |
| at James Madison University, Harrisonburg,
Virginia, and on the Graduate Faculty there since 2008. |
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| Choi has been the recipient of the
Visual Arts Fellowships from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, |
| International Artists Exchange Program
Grants from the Lighton Foundation and the CVPA Faculty |
| Summer Research Grant at JMU. She has
been awarded several residency fellowships including |
| European Ceramic Workcentre (EKWC),
Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands; c.r.e.t.a.rome, Rome, Italy; |
| Madelta International Artists in Residence
(MIAIR), Medicine Hat,Canada; Cowwarr Art Space, |
| Cowwarr, Australia; A.I.R.Vallauris,
Vallauris, France. |
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| Choi has had twenty-five solo exhibitions
in the United States, Canada and Korea. |
| Including at Saint Joseph's University,
Philadelphia, PA, Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills,
IL, |
| The 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL,
Medalta in the Historic Clay District, Medicine Hat, Canada, |
| and Sam Houston State University,
Huntsville, TX. |
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She also has been exhibited in
and collected by more than 150 museums and galleries throughout
Europe,
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Asia, and the United States in
venues such as Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A Museum), London,
England,
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Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gwangju-si,
Korea, Museo Nacional de la Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias González
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Martí, Valencia, Spain, Crafts
Council of Ireland, Kilkenny, Ireland, Taller Escuela de Cerámica
de Muel,
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Zaragoza, Spain, Ormeau Baths
Gallery, Belfast, UK,Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL,
Montgomery
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Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery,
AL, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, and LaGrange Art Museum,
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LaGrange, GA.
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| Choi is also a prolific commentator
on the field of Ceramics, publishing over one hundred twenty articles |
| for the Korea Times in Washington DC
and Monthly Ceramic Art in Korea. She is a Board Member of |
| the Cub Creek Ceramic Arts Foundation. |
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