Reimagine Blue and White
For Collect 2026, Lloyd Choi Gallery brings together three outstanding contemporary Korean ceramic artists who reimagine blue and white beyond inherited decorative conventions. Moving beyond eighteenth century ideals shaped through early encounters with East Asian porcelain, the featured artists approach blue and white as an open field for experimentation.
Blue and white is treated not as surface ornament but as a twenty first century language shaped through material presence and process, as the artists gently challenge traditional Korean ceramic making. Through raw surfaces, visible making, and moments of incompletion, they subtly unsettle long-standing associations with refinement, symmetry, and controlled cobalt application. Their works move beyond decoration to become expressive and investigative, inviting audiences to reconsider how blue and white continue to evolve today.
ARTISTS
LEE JUNGSUK
Lloyd Choi Gallery will present Lee Jungsuk’s signature Fragile series, with new works shown in the UK for the first time.
Fragile reimagines blue and white porcelain through erosion and reconstruction. Rather than relying on fire to define form, Lee Jungsuk introduces water to reverse the ceramic-making process. Through deliberate erosion, decaying surfaces and fading cobalt traces recall excavated objects, while repurposed blue label stationery stickers blur the boundary between contemporary work and historical relics.
CHOI BORAM
Choi Boram has forged a contemporary language distinct from the simplicity and refinement long associated with Korean ceramics. Hand-built in coarse clay, her forms are covered with thousands of drawn cobalt lines and patterns, then fired unglazed. The surfaces remain deliberately raw and unfinished, redefining tradition through material expression.
KWAK HYEYOUNG
Kwak Hyeyoung creates abstract blue and white ceramic wall panels using rain as a collaborator. Allowing natural forces to shape cobalt-pigmented porcelain works, her practice unfolds as a meditative exploration of impermanence, where nature becomes an active participant in the making process.
VISITING INFORMATION
Stand E6 (East Wing)
Somerset House Strand London, WC2R 1LA
27 February - 1 March 2026
Fri 27 Feb: 11 am – 8 pm
Sat 28 Feb: 11 am - 6 pm
Sun 1 Mar: 11 am - 5 pm
CONTACT INFORMATION
contact@lloydchoigallery.com
