Jeffery Sun Young Park (b. 1987, Los Angeles, CA), a first-generation queer Corean based in Los Angeles, brings a unique perspective to his art practice, informed by his background as a licensed marriage and family therapist championing inclusivity, healing, and wellness within BIPOC, queer, and gender-nonconforming communities.

Through his hand-built stoneware ceramics, meticulously crafted and fired using various techniques, Park invites viewers to explore themes of identity, community, and connection to the land.

'Dokkaebi Plantscapes' showcases the lush neighborhood trees in my parents hometown of Ui-Dong, Seoul before they immigrated to the US and the plants I associate with  growing up in the Los Angeles and the near by desert landscape.

One of Ui-Dong’s major landmarks are Bukhansan National Park and Baegundae Peak. The Dokkaebi Pine Trees and Mountain Landscape are my sculptural take on the Pine Tree forest and High Peaks my parents spent their childhood to post college years.

The cactus landscape is a continual exploration of my first solo show where one of the ideas I explored was titled: Dokkaebi Desert which highlighted the mass movement and displacement of Coreans to Southern California and the process of growing roots in new soil and my parents stories of seeing cactus for the first time coming to California in their mid-late 20’s and during our family trips to the Koreans Spas in Palm Springs.