Pam Su is a Taiwanese-American artist working in ceramics. She was born in Taiwan, grew up in the shadows of NYC in the United States, studied film at Cornell University and apprenticed as a potter in Taiwan, before completing a master’s degree in Ceramics and Glass at the Royal College of Art. She is currently based in London.
Su’s work is characterized by the anomalous. They don’t look to convention and beauty as a given, rather they challenge ways of seeing. Abstract in form, her sculptures dive into the underbelly of sight and memory, amalgamating the sinister and ominous with the sublime and redeeming, interweaving between repulsion and allurement. Almost always enclosed, the forms appear as though they have secrets tucked within, succumbing to being filled to its limit, and on the verge of bursting, collapse, or decay. They are reflections of urban thresholds—that which is abandoned and overlooked, and disillusionment contesting with hope. It is Su’s desire that her pieces embody an energy of their own and give visual insight to tension between control and release. Her practice is a contemporary extension of abstract expressionism.
Peckham, London