Heirloom Artist Talks: Justin Paik Reese

Saturday February 14th 10am - 5pm [ Lunch 12-1 ]

Location: 8302 SE 13th Ave, Portland, OR 97202

Join us for a one day Artist talk and demonstration-based workshop with Justin Paik Reese!

Focusing on showcasing my own personal techniques that I use when building out larger composite forms. These techniques will include creating mounds of clay from smaller wedged pieces, centering maneuvers, specific shaping pulls, joining sections, and how I utilize the torch throughout all of this. I will also be sharing techniques that focus on geometrical layouts when preparing my work for carving and surface decoration.

The Day will include an artist talk, demonstration, and hands on time to practice carving techniques! All materials and tools provided.

Learn more about Justin:

Website: https://www.jpr-studio.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jpr_studio/

Artists Bio and Statment

Justin Reese is a studio potter out of Youngstown, Ohio. Some of his influences include 90’s pop culture, retro video games, gothic architecture/design, and Korean pottery and patterning. He fires to cone 10/11 in his soda kiln, often looking for rich carbon-trapping with bright, electric celadons. If he is not loading a kiln or making work, you can find him spoiling his daughters and nerding out on the Super Nintendo. 

"Growing up in a dilapidated town full of architectural genius, and often traveling to South Korea at a young age to visit my mother’s family, I have a beautiful clash of opposites that fill my mind when revisiting my past. I can vividly recall my grandfather’s ginger jar that sat next to his piles of bodybuilder magazines, often wondering why I never questioned that coexistence. There’s something profoundly powerful and lasting when elements of a reality don’t quite make sense. The shapes that I make are containers of memories, and they invite the viewer to take a deeper look.”