Jessi Li

I intend to challenge day-to-day complacency by coaxing subverted social, cultural, and physical power dynamics to the forefront, while exploring our relationship to space, spirituality, social divinity, and maybe even God.

My sculptures are figurative and architecturally inspired. They range in scale from twelve inches to eight feet. Using various materials, primarily clay and glass, I interpret the human body and religious structures, simultaneously celebrating and criticizing traditional forms.

I often grapple with issues of gender, seeing a need to communicate what is so engrained in our culture and language that we rarely have a means of verbally expressing our discontent. I hope to illicit the discourse of power comparing social exchange to our interactions with man made environments.