Jiemin Park: Ashes to Ashes
July 24th – September 13th, 2024Exhibitions
Opening Reception July 24th from 6-8 PM.
Jiemin works primarily in fused glass, which she colors only with ash and soot. Her work takes the temporary things of everyday life - falling leaves, ordinary newspapers, and receipts - and captures their remains in glass.
The work is created only through the firing process without any help of artificial pigments. Collected materials change to ash and soot and form with a variety of colors, textures, and shapes within transparent glass. Comparing the transformations before and after firing, it is interesting to observe how ordinary things can be changed into something extraordinary. In this exhibition, Jiemin exhibits blown glass objects. She first made fused glass pieces and then used glass blowing techniques to make the pieces into three-dimensional objects shaped like traditional Korean jars.
About the Artist
Jiemin Park is a visual artist from South Korea. She received her BFA from Hong-ik University in Seoul and an MFA in glass from Rhode Island School of Design and she has been on an Artist-in-Residence program at the K’Arts Creative Studio since 2023.
Her work has been shown at the Italian Glass Weeks Hub under 35 in Venice, Stanislav Libenský Award in Prague, Shanghai Museum of glass, Korean Craft Museum, and other global exhibitions. She was invited to a Visiting Artist Residency at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma in 2023 and her works were selected for New Glass Review 41 and 43. Jiemin was awarded ‘Young Craftsman of the Year’ for 2024 from YÉOL Foundation for the YÉOL x CHANEL project.
