Among the goals of Ara Koh’s show at Hamiltonian Artists is to reimagine landscape painting as something literally derived from the land. Other objects in the Seoul-born local artist’s “Grounding; Grounded; Ground” equate clay with flesh. According to the unorthodox ceramist’s statement, she is “trying to understand earth, humanness.” To do that, she uses materials excavated and shaped with her own hands.
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