Join us for a sculpture project using recycled takeout containers, packaging, and other kitchenware. Please feel free to bring your own small containers and plastic or silicone molds to make your own colorful “jellies”!

Workshop duration: 30–60 minutes

All ages welcome and no experience necessary. 

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Philippe Hyojung Kim (b. 1989) grew up in a small town outside of Nashville, TN, and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2013. He experiments with various materials and mediums, in response to his immediate surroundings to make objects and environments that exist in the space between painting and sculpture. His work often references queer identity, artificiality, and language.

 In his most recent body of work, titled (Un)Earthly Delights, Philippe collages plastic casts and remnants onto paper and acrylic in configurations that read at once as painting, text, and sculpture. He molds, casts, and reappropriates plastic to create playful, neon-saturated sculptures that allude to our cultural obsession with this most ubiquitous and climate-endangering material. In this process, he elevates this quotidian material, simultaneously giving it new life and highlighting the existential danger plastic poses.

 Philippe’s work has been exhibited nationally at galleries, museums, universities, and alternative art spaces across the US.