Blue Wave Vessel

Myungjin Choi

colored porcelain

13"W x 5" D x 15 3/4"H

This layered porcelain piece is incredibly fascinating, providing visual stimulation and a provocative splash of color to any space. The textures and materiality makes this piece wonderfully unique and tastefully unconventional. Composed of seemingly moving elements, like waves or clouds moving across the surface, the sculpture evokes motion. At the same time, the muted colors lend a sense of calm to the viewer Choi's sculpture is certainly a worthwhile acquisition to your collection!

Artist Statement

My work is based on research that personally interests me. Scientific theories such as fractals, chaos, and complexity stimulate my curiosity and motivate my creativity. My sculptures and installations seek to express the coexistence of order and disorder in art, philosophy, and our world.

A fractal is a geometric figure in which an identical motif repeats itself on an ever-diminishing scale. It is the graphic representation of a mathematical equation in the complex plane, obtained by "iterating" the results of the equation. Chaos is the idea that it is possible to get completely random results from normal equations. Fractals are related to chaos because they are complex systems that have definite properties. A complexity is neither completely deterministic nor completely random and it exhibits both characteristics.

Artist Biography

Myung Jin Choi is a sculptor, installation artist and a storyteller. Born in Korea, she has lived in the United States for the past five years and briefly in Canada while serving as a visiting Assistant Professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She received her MFA from the State University of New York New Paltz in 2003. Choi's work mirrors her history evidencing her life's experiences and travels. Each piece she creates recalls a memory, capturing the essence and feeling of a specific time and place. Her work lacks a recognizable style other than the use of a singular form in a repetitive way. Forms can be sharp and hard-edged, rounded and soft, can be floating in space or firmly rooted, projecting out from the wall or mounded on the floor. The style she chooses to work in reflects the method best suited for the translation of her ideas.

Donated by Lis and Michael Kalogris

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