Jennie Jieun Lee: Luteal Elements and Grooves at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
January 25, 2026 to May 25, 2026
Jennie Jieun Lee uses clay as a medium to explore themes of identity, community, memory, and trauma’s aftereffects. Born in Seoul, and raised in the US, Lee’s work reflects on her Korean heritage and diasporic experience in America, blending Asian and Western cultural influences. With a background in painting and ceramics, as well as experience in the fashion and film industries, her approach is experimental, iconoclastic, and magical. Drawing from both modern and ancient sources, including twelfth century Korean ceremonial masks (Hahoetal), Abstract Expressionism, and European decorative arts, she employs a diverse range of techniques, including collage, airbrushing, oil painting, wheel throwing, slab work, and slip casting. Defying traditional categorization, her practice spans ceramic paintings, portrait busts, vessels adorned with flowers, textiles printed with her glazes, and sculptural installations. Her glazing technique is painterly and cumulative, as she pours and applies glazes of different viscosities and hues, to create rich, layered surfaces that she says are “often mined from her interpretations of scenes in films, notes in music and citations from novels.” She uses a variety of tools, brushes of many sizes, handmade patterned clay rollers, styluses, needle and scoring tools.
VIP and Member Opening for Jennie Jieun Lee, Chenlu Hou and Chiara No, Larissa Bates, and Kristy Hughes
Saturday, January 24 | 2 to 3 pm VIPs | 3 to 5 pm Members
