Kieu Tran
My work is extremely personal and deeply about emotion. They’re shapes that speak to me on an innate level. I believe it’s possible that feeling can be transmitted through my fingertips in this corporeal, nonlinguistic dialogue I have with clay. I think it’s possible that these feelings can be transmitted through the tactility of a sculptural object.
Kieu Tran’s work emphasizes the ideas of connection and empathy. She creates elegant, sensuous, biomorphic ceramic sculptures with velvet soft finishes that invite touch. An important element of her work is that it evokes a sense of playfulness and joy in the viewer.
Kieu Tran starts them with merely a specific silhouette in mind, but as I builds, the hollow form takes on deeper meaning. Love, joy and wonder are all universal emotions; Kieu Tran believes if she can evoke these emotions through her abstract forms, perhaps she can help people feel how connected we all are.
