When Form Meets Gesture

Park Young Sook's abstract works investigating the relationship between form and gestural mark-making.

Why go

The exhibition reveals a rare sustained dialogue between two major artists—Park's technical mastery of white porcelain and Lee's painterly interventions converge on three-dimensional ceramic surfaces, expanding abstraction beyond the flat plane in ways difficult to achieve on canvas.

What to expect

Forty years of Park's porcelain works, including new sculptures from 2025, alongside collaborative pieces where Lee's brushstrokes permeate the smooth ceramic surface. The Moon Jars—hand-thrown vessels exceeding 70 cm in height with subtle color variations from the firing process—anchor the show, demonstrating the eobdaji technique of joining two h

Things to know

• Park Young Sook born 1947 in Gyeongju, former capital of the Silla Kingdom, raised among Buddhist temples and ancient art.
• Has owned and operated her own kiln since 1979, refining labor-intensive, meditative processes at extremely high firing temperatures.
• Moon Jars are contemporary reinterpretations of 17th-century Korean vessels, scaled significantly larger than historical precedents.
• Lee Ufan has mentored Park since the early 1980s, regularly visiting her Seoul studio for collaborative work.
• Park's white porcelain and buncheong ware explore living tension and force rather than resolved form, rooted in Korean ceramic traditions.
• Exhibition opening reception June 18, 2026, 5–7 PM at Pace Seoul.