Oneoneone
Plane / Mass:
Between Surface and Weight
Yun Dong Nam
September 26 - November 1, 2025
Images
Information
About the Artist
Artist Statement for Plane / Mass
Emotion and energy are inherent properties of clay. In clay, the Earth is held; it grows, wears down, and is renewed. As an organic material, clay captures one’s ideas and transforms them into tangible reality, becoming a living tool to educate and inform.
As a ceramic artist, Nam engages with a history deeply connected to the Earth. What he seeks in his work is a reconnection to the rhythms of nature. In using clay to create, he aims to fuse with the elemental properties of the natural world.
Within our society, these connections to the Earth have been broken. As artists, we can create awareness of this loss and demonstrate the hope of reconnection.
About the Artist
Yun Dong Nam was born in Seoul, Korea, and received his M.F.A. from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Before joining the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1995, he taught at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, California State University at Long Beach, and Bennington College in Vermont. He also completed an artist residency at the Bemis Foundation in Omaha, Nebraska.
Currently Professor of Art at UNC, Yun Dong received the University of North Carolina’s Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
In addition to his acclaimed teaching career, he is an active and widely recognized ceramic artist, with his work featured in over sixty group exhibitions and nineteen solo exhibitions.