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Marilee Talkington: This installation of "Untitled (Sprout)" by artist Lee Seung-taek was originally created in 1963 and refabricated in 2018, since the original was destroyed. Six large, freestanding sculptures are arranged across the gallery. They vary in size and distance, grouped between one to several feet apart. Similar widths, between 1 1/2 to 2 feet in diameter, they range in height from the smallest, just over 3 1/2 feet tall, to several just around 5 feet tall, and the tallest just over 6 feet.

Lee was inspired by "onggi", traditional Korean earthenware used as tableware or for storage or fermenting. These unconventional earthenware sculptures are all similarly colored, painted a dark black and lacquered for a shiny finish. They are similarly shaped, as well, with the top of each shaped like a large teardrop with streaks of bright orange swirling and blazing across the surface like the flame on a candle stick. The bottom of the teardrop is flat, and it slightly overhangs its narrower columnar base roughly half the height of the teardrop. The whole structure gives the impression of closed buds sprouting from their stems.

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