Intangible Memories continues Dodd MFA candidate, Huey Lee’s investigation into the condition of clay and how it exists as a relic of Lee’s emotional record expressed as a visual language. Lee sees his practice as a way to convey his feelings about the past as spoken words often fails him. “Investigating inner emotions and memories...
Intangible Memories continues Dodd MFA candidate, Huey Lee’s investigation into the condition of clay and how it exists as a relic of Lee’s emotional record expressed as a visual language. Lee sees his practice as a way to convey his feelings about the past as spoken words often fails him. “Investigating inner emotions and memories allow me to better understand my own identity within society,” he explains.
Lee began the process of creating clay objects invoking his remembrances, last year in another exhibition at the Dodd Galleries. That show featured perforated clay objects reminiscent of everyday items such as a purse, a lone sock, or a wine glass. In this new iteration of his on-going project, Lee has created a series of abstracted objects, recalling organic forms. Whereas the prior works acted like ghosts of objects, things that might concretely provoke the past, these new forms remain elusive. Unable to fully grasp his memories, the objects mimic the difficulty of articulating a feeling – it appears and then just as quickly, vanishes.
Huey Lee was born and raised in South Korea. He trained to become a Korean traditional ceramic artisan. Lee worked at pottery and ceramic studios for several years and apprenticed under TaeGon Kim, Inchin Lee and the late Gil-bae Kim. He currently resides in Athens, Georgia and is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Georgia.
