Jenny Min (Studio: New York)

Photography © Peter Hapak, New York
Collage - visual Iou D.

(Born in 1987) Jenny Min is Korean and Japanese descent, grew up between New York City and Italy.

While at university Jenny studied under the ceramic artist, Matt Nolan, at NYU in 2008 and then she apprenticed under the late master potter, Romano Pampaloni, in Florence, Italy. Currently she lives and works downtown New York City.

"This series has been influenced by memories from the past: past travels, past stories..memories of a time unknown, a sort of nostalgia for times other. It draws on recognizable forms, but guided by memories that aren’t exact, a memory that might not be mine, but ours. I’m relating to that place.”
-Jenny Min

Hand-building during quarantine as I normally work on the wheel, which enables me to create pieces that come out much more delicate; these pieces are heavier and suit the gravity of this isolation in my mind.
-Jenny Min, NY, April 18th, 2020

“In Process…” from mid March on, 2020 Greenwich Str., New York Studio

Most recently with the Coronavirus, I’ve been unable to work at my regular studio in Long Island City, where I enter this “sort-of hypnosis” induced by the circular movement of the wheel. I am currently living/working/quarantined at a beautiful resident studio on Greenwich Street in New York City. But to enter “this place” to create, I listen to the solitude and let the unconscious guide my now hand-building and I am joyous to know it is there too. Inspiration can be found.”

—Jenny Min, NY, 2020