Yeh Rim Lee - Money Chair

17" L x 23" H x 20" W

Looking for a beautiful and auspicious piece to add to your collection? This piece is one of many Money Chairs that Yeh Rim Lee has made, each possessing a unique personality. Through colors and glaze, the artist explores luxury and decadence with surfaces that crystallize, facet, fragment, stylize, sharpen, and distort. This particular piece features a stark white that contrasts beautifully with blue that drips down the surface. Both a sculpture and a functional object, this work would add a flash of brilliance to your garden or home interior.

Inspired by a 19th century garden seat from the Qing Dynasty in the permanent collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Lee's Money Chairs represent a bridge between East and West. The series was begun for The Clay Studio exhibition "From Storage to Studio." Not only did Lee modernize the form, she elevated its sculptural qualities without sacrificing functionality. The artist described her Money Chairs as possessing "a modern sense of abundance through elaborate shape, dripping glaze, sheens, and functionality that is questioned by extravagant form."

YehRim Lee was born in Seoul, Korea. She earned her BFA from Korea National University of Cultural Heritage (2013). She received her MFA in Ceramic Art at Alfred University (2017). She has shown in exhibitions nationally and internationally. Lee was a Resident Artist at The Clay Studio from 2017 - 2020. She now lives and works in Joshua Tree, California.

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