Features the work and words of Steven Young Lee of Helena, Montana. From a series of films about the Montana clay community. Funded in-part by a Big Sky Grant from the Montana Film Office.
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Producer, Cynthia Knutsen
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Detroit-native Steven Montgomery discusses the influence of damage, destruction, and the passage of time in his own works, and finds similar narratives in the works of Steven Young Lee and Peter Voulkos, and other artists in the collection.
This video is part of a series of lectures spotlighting artists from the exhibition “Crafting America” at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Here, “Crafting America” artist Steven Young Lee presents a special demonstration and talk, sharing his process in action. Lee presents in his studio, giving you a close look at his process as a ceramic artist and discusses his collision of influences, unique forms, and current works.
This program is included as a part of the Northwest Arkansas Community College Spring Arts and Culture festival, a multi-day, interdisciplinary festival that brings together artists, academics, intellectuals, performers, and others to reflect on an annual theme. You can find more information about the festival at Spring Arts & Culture Festival:
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Steven Young Lee has been the resident artist director of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts in Helena, Montana since 2006. In 2004-’05, he lectured and taught at numerous universities throughout China as part of a one-year cultural and educational exchange in Jingdezhen, Shanghai and Beijing. In 2005-06 he was a visiting professor at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver BC.
Steven has lectured extensively in North America and Asia. In March 2013 he participated on a panel, “Americans in the Porcelain City,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2013, he was one of several international artists invited to participate in “New Blue and White,” an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston that featured contemporary artists working in the blue-and-white tradition of ceramic production. In the fall of 2016 his work will be featured as part of the Renwick Invitational at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC.
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Enjoy another Spotlight Talk with “Crafting America” artist Joyce J. Scott:
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Steven Young Lee blends Eastern and Western traditions with anachronistic, often playful imagery and striking pattern in his porcelain works. His process allows the clay forms to sink under their own weight in the kiln, creating dramatic “broken” silhouettes that can never be replicated. The resulting vessels embody equal parts mastery and chance, and reflect Lee’s own inquiries into the nature of perfection, the construction of identity and balancing tradition with personal expression.
Steven Young Lee’s artwork often considers his own experience navigating his Korean-American cross-cultural identity through the process of working in ceramics and building installations. In this talk, he discusses his work and the creative process that brought about his current APEX exhibition at the Museum.
This lecture was recorded on February 24, 2019 in Portland Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium
