In dialogue with the exhibition Beate Kuhn: Turn, join Rachel Delphia, Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Curator of Decorative Art and Design, and contemporary artists Patsy Cox, Jing Huang, and Jolie Ngo to experience the art of Beate Kuhn through contemporary eyes.
Patsy Cox is Professor of Visual Art and Head of Ceramics at California State University Northridge. She is a visual artist, educator and arts advocate. She is a former president of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), a Fellow of the Council and is currently serving as Board Steward. She has served on the board of the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) has participated in the Annenberg Alchemy and Alchemy+ programs for nonprofit excellence, was a Getty Scholar for the Linking Service Learning and the Visual Arts Program and has coordinated courses for the CSU Summer Arts Program. She was the curator for the 74th Scripps Annual, Stories Without Borders: Personal Narratives in Clay and was co-juror for the 2022 NCECA National Student Juried Exhibition.
Cox has exhibited and lectured nationally and internationally, and is recognized for her large modular installations, as well as her sculptural work, exhibited at Alta Sea at the Port of Los Angeles, Crocker Art Museum, Clay and Glass Gallery, Long Beach Museum of Art, Ulrich Museum, Craft Contemporary, the American Museum of Ceramic Art and the James Earl Carter Library Gallery among others. Cox has completed several international residencies including, the Lanzhou Ceramic Residency, the Pottery Workshop, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts and the Art Studio Inc. She holds an MFA from the University of Delaware, a BFA from Missouri University and lives and maintains a productive studio in Los Angeles.
Born and raised in Guilin, China, Jing Huang is a ceramic artist currently living and working in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received degrees from Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in China (BA, Ceramic Art, 2012), Sheridan College in Canada (Diploma, Crafts and Design – Ceramics, 2015), and Alfred University in the US (MFA, Ceramic Art, 2020).
Jing has lectured, curated exhibitions, conducted workshops and exhibited extensively throughout the US, Canada, China and the UK. The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), and Ceramics Monthly Magazine featured Jing as an Emerging Artist in 2023. Jing’s work is included in private and public collections including the permanent collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK), Alfred Ceramic Art Museum (Alfred, US), Yingge Ceramics Museum (Taipei, Taiwan), Durham University Oriental Museum (Durham, UK), and Manchester Metropolitan University Special Collections Museum (Manchester, UK).
Jolie Ngo is a Vietnamese-American designer based in Santa Barbara, CA. Ngo is revitalizing the metaphoric potential of the vessel form by utilizing clay 3d printing, to create bright cyborgian pottery objects that acknowledge early ceramic traditions while smiling towards the future. Working with tools that are digitally forward, she is deeply engaged in exploring the tension between past and future, probing the synergy between handmade arts and technology. Maintaining a sense of tactility, intimacy and sensitivity often achieved in traditional handworks is paramount to the practice. She lovingly dresses these familiar forms with hand painted geometric patterns or hazy gradients and affixes embellishments all over their surface to bring the hand back into the process. This interplay of the machine and the hand results in creation of objects that resist definition.
She received her BFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA in Ceramic art from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University.
Beate Kuhn (1927–2015) was a German sculptor known for her rhythmic ensembles of deconstructed, ceramic forms such as discs, cylinders, cones, and spheres. She also channeled beautiful and sublime aspects of nature with formal allusions to succulents, seeds, mushrooms, and invertebrate animals.
In Conversation is a series of engaged discussions with scholars, artists, writers, and creatives who explore different points of view and share multiple perspectives on our collections and exhibitions. Hear from a diverse lineup of guests discussing a range of topics in relation to our galleries and public art spaces.