Primitive animal instincts lurk in our own depths, waiting for the chance to slide past a conscious moment. During this time, she has continued experimenting and refining her technical skills and artistic vision while also pursuing an academic career.Ĭurrently, she is a Full-time Faculty member at Georgia State University in Clarkston, Georgia. After graduation, she relocated to Atlanta, becoming active in the regional arts community and gaining recognition in national and international art competitions. To this end, she moved to the United States in 1993, immersing herself in the study of contemporary western ceramics, receiving a Master of Arts degree from Iowa State University.
Upon completion of her undergraduate degree at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, she sought to learn more and advance to a graduate program.
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From my earliest years, she was fascinated by ceramic arts and decided to dedicate her professional life to their pursuit. Sooyeon Kim is a native of Seoul, South Korea, where she grew up surrounded by ancient traditions of art, architecture, and culture. Motivated by these concerns and his own multi- cultural background Smith’s research is buoyed and inspiration by identity politics, drawing, printmaking and 3D printing. Generally, Smith’s ceramics forms rely on wheel-thrown and hand-built elements, most commonly presented as abstractions of cups, bottles, and vases. His works, fueled by a passion for Hip Hop and Jazz, are inspired by the intersections graffiti art, comic books and playful organic abstraction. He earned his Master degree in ceramic art from the New York College of ceramics at Alfred University and studied at both the Kansas City Art Institute and Penn State University where he earned his undergraduate degree in ceramics art.Īll of Smith’s work ceramics and beyond are guided by improvisations that merge volumetric form with graphic flatness. Artist and educator, Malcolm Mobutu Smith lives and works in Bloomington, Indiana where he is Associate professor of Ceramic Art in the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design at Indiana University.
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