Jung Hee Chang 정희장

Jung Hee Chang is another artist who was attracted to clay by a visit to the studio of Oh Hyong Jong. We know all about this attraction because as this is being written we are camping in a spare room of Oh Hyong Jong’s current studio, an old elementary school. But that’s another story for another time. Jung Hee Chang sustained his interest from that childhood visit until the time he was able to take ceramics at Chonam University. After taking his MFA from the traditionally oriented program at Dangook University, he returned to be an assistant to Oh Hyong Chang and to try and learn as much as possible about the onggi techniques of clayworking.

He is clearly an able student if we are to judge by the pots in his showroom. Ranging from small tea bowls to gigantic containers big enough to bathe in (with company) they are predominantly formed by traditional onggi techniques and fired in a gas kiln. Some of the newest work is in porcelain or stoneware and Jung Hee Chang has expressed a desire to move into areas outside his onggi experience.

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