JESSICA THOMPSON LEE ART

Jessica Thompson-Lee is a ceramic artist and art educator from Kansas City, MO, and is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. The majority of the open, abstract, and organic forms found in her sculptures are loosely inspired by nature-images observed of microorganisms, fungi, coral, rock formations, the human body, and insects. Liquid clay is incorporated onto a plaster slab, never knowing exactly how the designs will turn out. This unpredictability is both an important and enjoyable part of the process; each design is unique. After being fired, each piece goes through a different type of transformation. Sometimes they become wearable art. Sometimes they are used as models and inspiration for larger carved ceramic sculptures or components of functional pieces.