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“A Living Vessel: Onggi, Fermentation, and the Self” 2025. ** Winner of (1 of 3) Juror’s Merit Award for Best in Show**

A series of 5 previously never shown vessels that embody fissure and the combining of unlikely elements, highlights both brokenness and attachment as necessary features of a life that persists through change.  The series ends with the same porcelain vessel(* see below) that has since undergone transformation through glaze and firing.

On view as part of the Craft Texas 2025 exhibit at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft from September 6, 2025 - January 31, 2026.

About the juror: Abraham Thomas - Since 2020, Thomas has been the Daniel Brodsky Curator of Modern Architecture, Design, and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He previously worked at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., first as the Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator-in-Charge of the Renwick Gallery, and then as Senior Curator at the Arts and Industries Building.

“Onggi: A fermentation vessel” 2025

An assimilation story that repeats a constant onggi form with varying glaze finishes and surface design techniques, this auto-biographical series represents the shifting aesthetics the artist encountered from birth to the present, and depicts her evolution from immigration onward to the present in 37 vessels.  The final pot in the series depicts “Now” with an unfinished and raw - not yet fired - porcelain vessel that was later glazed and finished for Craft Texas (* See above).  

Exhibited as part of the Multiplicity 2025 show at the Silos in Sawyer Yards June 7-July 19 2025.

  • HTX Clay

    Featured artist, June 2025

    Equators, 2024

    Tea for One, 2023

    Three-faced, 2025

  • Onggi: A fermentation vessel, 2025

    Glassell School of Art, Multiplicity 2025, Silos at Sawyer Yards

    June 7-July 19 2025

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  • A Living Vessel: Onggi, Fermentation, and the Self

    CraftTexas 2025 is the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft’s 12th juried exhibition highlighting the best in Texas-made contemporary craft. Winner of the juror’s Merit Award.

    Juried by Abraham Thomas, the Daniel Brodsky Curator of Modern Architecture, Design, and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

    Sep 6 2025 - Jan 31 2026

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Past Exhibitions

  • Aquifer, 2022

    Kinder Morgan’s Green exhibit, Spring 2023

  • Primordial, 2022

    ClayHouston’s Formative Narratives exhibit, Fall 2024

    Kinder Morgan’s Wilderness exhibit, Summer 2022

  • Parched, 2023

    ClayHouston’s Flux exhibit, Fall 2023

  • Itadakimasu, 2024

    Kinder Morgan’s Taste exhibit, Spring 2025

  • Three-faced, 2025

    HTX Clay

    Featured Artist, June 2025