This piece is a personal, emotive expression of an intimate, playful dialogue between two forms, embodying the rhythms of breath and love — the cycles of beginnings and endings, emptiness and renewal.
Hand coiled sculptural form - Fired white stoneware clay with white underglaze
Approx. 12 in wide x 7 in deep x 13 in tall.
2022
Artist Location: Los Angeles, California
Born in 1989 in Philadelphia, PA, Jean Tran is a designer and artist currently working on the original territories of the Tongva peoples (Los Angeles, CA), whose practice emerges in cycles of solitude, attention, and prolonged states of making. She treats her work as a site of holding, where emotional truth is carried without narration, shaped by an earned tension between what is formed by the hand and what is shaped by time, gravity, and chance. Each piece is less an object of expression than an artifact of a lived, meditative process, often feeling complete before it is fully understood. Tran's work operates symbolically, allowing experience to be metabolized indirectly through form, surface, and negative space. These objects bear witness to what needed to be held before it was ready to be seen, carrying a quiet urgency and devotional presence that asks to be encountered rather than explained.
This piece is a personal, emotive expression of an intimate, playful dialogue between two forms, embodying the rhythms of breath and love — the cycles of beginnings and endings, emptiness and renewal.
Hand coiled sculptural form - Fired white stoneware clay with white underglaze
Approx. 12 in wide x 7 in deep x 13 in tall.
2022
Artist Location: Los Angeles, California
Born in 1989 in Philadelphia, PA, Jean Tran is a designer and artist currently working on the original territories of the Tongva peoples (Los Angeles, CA), whose practice emerges in cycles of solitude, attention, and prolonged states of making. She treats her work as a site of holding, where emotional truth is carried without narration, shaped by an earned tension between what is formed by the hand and what is shaped by time, gravity, and chance. Each piece is less an object of expression than an artifact of a lived, meditative process, often feeling complete before it is fully understood. Tran's work operates symbolically, allowing experience to be metabolized indirectly through form, surface, and negative space. These objects bear witness to what needed to be held before it was ready to be seen, carrying a quiet urgency and devotional presence that asks to be encountered rather than explained.
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