Virtual Event hosted by Pucker Gallery
On 7 February Pucker Gallery hosted a conversation with Artist Young Jae Lee, collector and archivist Siggi Schaefer, and Director Bernie Pucker. For this discussion, we will take a close look at works in the current exhibition to help us understand and explore the inspiration and journey of such a remarkable artist.
The exhibition, "Hope | Hoffnung: Young Jae Lee" will be on view at Pucker Gallery through 27 February 2022.
Siegfried Schaefer, born in 1952, studied art history and audiovisual communication in Göttingen, Germany, started his own publishing company and an event agency in 1974, contributed to the magazine "Fotografie”, worked independently as an event organizer, promoter, and producer with his firm Aries Events until 2005. Publications, among others, on the painter and sculptor Gerhard Kurt Müller (one of the founders of the first Leipzig School), and on standards of catalogues raisonnés on photography (2022), collaboration with Steidl Publishers and Terezin Music Foundation. Since 2014, together with Cecilia Witteveen, born in 1960, operation of the internet website www.Art-Archives.net, and editor of the catalogues raisonnés for the Oeuvres by Samuel Bak, T. Lux Feininger.
Young Jae Lee, born in Seoul, South Korea has spent the majority of her life working and living in Essen, Germany. During the early 1970s, Lee had practical ceramics training with German potters and by 1978, she had set up her own atelier near Heidelberg. She has been the director of Keramische Werkstatt Margaretenhöhe GmbH, in Essen, Germany, since 1987. Lee focuses on the individuality of each work and has combined the serene forms of traditional Korean ceramics (spindle vases and bowls of all sizes) with the work ethic and function of the Bauhaus.
Since Pucker Gallery’s establishment in 1967, Gallery Owner and Director Bernie Pucker and his wife, Sue, have expanded the collection to include artists from New England and around the globe, exhibiting a breadth of both 2D and 3D fine art. The gallery has exhibited Young Jae Lee's work since 1990.