Raina Lee’s racetrack-shaped stoneware platter is hand built from a slab and glazed with multiple custom glazes of her own formulation. Lee’s intention with the glazing was to create a watery landscape, the feeling of an atmospheric seascape, or body of water giving way to land. With each platter in the edition, she al

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Raina Lee

$400.00

Raina Lee

$400.00

Raina Lee’s racetrack-shaped stoneware platter is hand built from a slab and glazed with multiple custom glazes of her own formulation. Lee’s intention with the glazing was to create a watery landscape, the feeling of an atmospheric seascape, or body of water giving way to land. With each platter in the edition, she allowed the glazes to flow naturally, so that a different terrain might emerge. Her trademark volcanic crater glazes meld with glassy finishes — a diversity of textures as haptically seductive as they are visually alluring. Lee’s ceramic works draw influence from ancient traditions and the Chinese antique reproductions from her childhood home. Often finished with what she considers unexpected, peculiar glazes, her work is at once scientifically rigorous and organic and experimental. At her studio in Mount Washington, Lee mixes her own glazes, testing dozens of different mixtures to gain fluency in how the lustrous colors, telluric textures, and imperfections arise from the process. Lee explains, “If you didn’t grow up with artists in your family or go to art school, you have to find your own way to make art happen. My parents tried whatever they could to dissuade me from the arts! They were immigrants from Taiwan who ran a franchise pizza restaurant, so I credit them with my art philosophy which is ‘immigrant punk DIY entrepreneurial.’”

One platter, signed edition of 13.

Made by Raina Lee from Los Angeles, California

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OUT OF STOCK

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12.75 inches x 7 inches

Approx 2.5lbs

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Born in Torrance, California, Raina Lee lives and works in Los Angeles. Though she holds a BA from University of California, Davis in Sociology and an MA in Media and Film Studies from The New School, as a ceramicist she is mostly self-taught. She nonetheless continually pushes herself—through classes, workshops and residencies—to expand her understanding of the craft, and how to get ever-closer to making exactly the kind of work she wants to make as an artist. She places emphasis on making glazes out of clay and raw materials, with each custom glaze becoming a highly personal and specific formulation. Experience has taught her how colors melt into one another, and how they behave—or misbehave—in each other’s company. Her particular relationship with glaze and color approaches painting, but the magnetic pull of object-making has kept her in the three-dimensional realm. She draws inspiration from science fiction, from modes of being that can only be imagined, and from extreme rock and natural landscape formations. She has exhibited her work in ‘Homeworld,’ a solo exhibition at Stroll Garden in Los Angeles and in ‘Object and Thing’ in East Hampton, as well as in a number of venues in Los Angeles, New York and Japan. She recently completed the Experimental Clay Residency in the Expressive Computation Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has been features in magazines including Surface, T Magazine, Curbed, Architectural Digest, Artforum and C Magazine.

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