Advisor(Kim Jung Hoo, Metal Craf​t Artist)​

Kim Deok Ho, an artist whose focus is baekja, is based in Yanggu, the city of baekto (white clay). His studies of the minimal, graceful form and beautiful physical properties of Joseon-era baekja have formed the solid cornerstone of his artistic vision​. Kim Deok Ho works with baekto, which vitrifies at temperatures over 1300 degrees Celsius to achieve an indefinable whiteness possessing both durability and translucency, using the most traditional and universal techniques of wheel throwing and yeonli (multicolor marbling). Through repetition and creating his own processes of yeonli, wheel throwing, shaving away, and firing, he shapes his unique line. Beyond the effect of coincidence, he expresses through blue and ink-black brushstrokes the emotionality of lines, at times with delicacy, at others with resolution. His lines, expressed both in the interior and exterior spaces of form, convey a richness of emotion.