Ms. Jiha Moon brings out the most brilliant ideas of yellow in her Storyteller Yellow opening at Shoshana Wayne Gallery. In not simply the actual representation of the color, but as well as its distant relation to the echoes of her personal experience and pride as an Asian-Am woman. Through the outstandingly gorgeous ceramics, there is the sublime polish of Asian cultural ideas, facilitating a healthy undertone to the otherwise beautiful representation of, not difference, but diversity.

Speaking to the color choice itself, this is the most beautiful idea of yellow I have seen all year.

Moonscape, 2023
Porcelain, stoneware underglaze, glaze, found object
17” x 13 1/2” x 12 1/2”. Corutesy of Jiha Moon and Shoshanna Wayne Gallery. Courtesy of the artist and gallery. Copyright Jiha Moon.

There is a brilliant quietness to the necessity of the color’s vividness; and henceforth, Ms. Moon is victorious in her evenness she exquisitely brings out. What is an otherwise certain outstanding projection upon a delicate object. The placement of the yellow on the works achieves a super harmonizing of the media and its ceramic smoothness which beckons the taste of light to be delighted by the eyes.

Haetae (Goldfinch), 2023
Porcelain, underglaze, glaze
13” x 9” x 5”. Courtesy of the artist Jiha Moon and Shoshanna Wayne Gallery. Copyright Jiha Moon.

And within each of these ceramic sculptures, the ideas so stereotypical to Asian culture are brought out with a proud recognition in their visible, and tangible appearance. The triumph in moving unto beauty, unto an unequivocal acceptance of these concepts as hereditary to American Life is what is moving unto the soul.

For more information, please contact the gallery:

Shoshana Wayne Gallery

5247 W. Adams Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90016

P: 323.452.9067

mail@shoshanawayne.com