SUNKOO YUH
Sunkoo Yuh (1963 - ) is a Korean-born artist/sculptor/teacher whose work expresses his inner emotions and insights into his mundane everyday life experiences. From interior images drawn intuitively and spontaneously with ink and brush he selects a few to transform into three-dimensional clay sculptures and then through his mastery of the firing techniques he creates small to monumental scale disfigured ceramic glazed sculptures.
Sunkoo’s creative process is both tedious and strategic. It begins with a drawing form of his creative thoughts about his work/life experiences from china and abroad including the USA. He then reduces these to clay renderings, which through his accomplished and limits-defying mastery of his firing techniques he applies multiple layers of glaze to create unique one-of-a-kind three-dimensional glazed sculptures.
Each final product is a surprise, even to Sunkoo, he is always amazed due to its size, material, creativity, complexity and how it represents the combined eclectic, cultural, political, and worldly influence of his varied life.
The observer admiring Sunkoo’s work is also left amazed. One gets a mixed feeling of surprise, sadness, and joy, interchangeably, because his work is so complex it seems to tell a different story from any view and I, am always pleasantly surprised.
Artist, SunKoo Yuh in studio