AUDREY AN ARTIST STATEMENT:

Audrey An’s creative research revolves around the notion of applying digital technologies to ceramics from the perspective of ‘convergence’, be it cultural, technological, or interdisciplinary. She earned her BFA and Art History Minor from Alfred University, MFA from Penn State University and was a post-baccalaureate student at Colorado State University. 

“My works explore conversations about my transcultural upbringing: moving between South Korea and the United States, via objects that speak to ideas of home. Furniture in domestic space shapes identity, serving as a designated space for physical remnants of accumulated memories. Furniture can be used as a means to create a hypothetical space: a space to embrace an emotional state, to reflect on life, and to personify self. By recreating personal objects and historical artifacts through both analog handling of clay and digital fabrication methods such as 3D scanning, 3D printing and CNC-milling, I achieve varying degrees of visual information. Physical collages of organic and mechanized tension reflect my past and my cultural oscillation.”