Jennie Jieun Lee in Artforum

May 1, 2026

Jennie Jieun Lee – The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

By: Alina Cohen

In her first institutional solo exhibition, “Luteal Elements and Grooves,” at the Aldrich, ceramicist Jennie Jieun Lee pays tribute to the tools of her trade. The first gallery features sculptures made from abandoned kilns. Rocket Kiln (all works 2025), is composed of an electric oven and chimney propped up by cinder blocks. They resemble legs that support a belly and a long torso, effectively anthropomorphizing the oven. Stacked ceramic plates appear like offerings in front, dwarfed by the mechanized god that made them. This tension between technological innovation and animistic vivification connects multiple works in the show. Cresting above frequent markers of death and decay that anchor Lee’s objects to the earth are frequent attempts at transcendence: from the limitations of the body and the isolations of individuality toward something meaningful, collective, and timeless.

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