Jolie Ngo is a Ceramic Robot on the Outside and Happy on the Inside.
She is sometimes in Philadelphia, Pa or Providence, RI.
Right now ︎︎︎ She is currently an MFA candidate at NYS College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, NY.
you can buy her work here! you can follow her on Instagram, here! you can contact her, here! you can look 👀 her CV, here! & you can read her artist statement, here!
Projects
︎︎︎digital ceramics
︎︎︎100 vases
︎︎︎not ceramics
︎︎︎foam-ware
︎︎︎flat vase
100 Vases
2019 - 2020💯 slipcasted vases, glaze, mixed media Installed at the Rhode Island Desert
RISD BFA Ceramics Thesis
I take objects that are historically viewed as minimal and humble and lovingly dress them in vibrant patterns or hazy gradients with hand-crafted actionsthat mimic digital effects. I use the vessel as a conduit between tradition andpersonal experience, a symbol that evokes the long history of craft, while actingas a stand-in for a body. Utilizing the vessel, I alter their surfaces with layers of ornamentation as a strategy to investigate ideas about memory and self-identity.The different surface manipulation and alteration of each form signifies mystruggle of reconciling with my past self. Every time I revisit these memories, they become slightly altered blending together unreliably. This abstraction finds it’s way formally into my work as recognizable wares become warped & flattened.
