In Kyoung Chun & Huey Lee

Earthly Delights

January 15 - February 19

Earthly Delights

In Kyoung Chun & Huey Lee

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15, 6 - 9 pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, January 17, 3 pm

The Swan Coach House Gallery is pleased to present Earthly Delights, a ceramics and painting exhibition featuring Atlanta-based artist, In Kyoung Chun, and Kansas City-based artist, Huey Lee. The exhibition opens on Thursday, January 15 from 6 - 9 pm and will be on view through February 19. Earthly Delights is curated by SCHG Artistic Director, Jacob O’Kelley.

Earthly Delights brings together the practices of In Kyoung Chun and Huey Lee, two artists who craft deeply introspective worlds shaped by memory, identity, and the quiet pursuit of belonging. Through painting and ceramics, Chun and Lee invite viewers into spaces that are as much emotional landscapes as they are visual experiences. The exhibition explores how the familiar and the fantastical, the intimate and the absurd, can coexist as layered expressions of the self.

Chun’s paintings evoke a tender sense of home and familiarity, spaces at once safe and fragile, stable yet fleeting. Her practice is enveloped in everyday life where dreamy compositions with soft, glowing colors, and simplified forms suggest the comforts of domestic intimacy. Through subtle and restrained visual language, she offers viewers entry into places that feel both deeply personal and universal.

Lee’s ceramic vessels burst with playfully rendered dogs, tigers, and hybrid beings drawn from his personal mythology. Influenced by Korean cultural motifs, religion, and childhood nostalgia, these characters emerge as expressive avatars for hidden desires, anxiety, humor, and introspection. With layered narratives and intuitive use of materials, Lee’s work transforms whimsy into vulnerability where one can reflect on their own internal landscapes.

Together, their works speak to a shared human desire to find meaning within the everyday. Chun’s quiet, luminous scenes and Lee’s animated ceramic sculptures echo the subtleties of life and its inescapable complexity. Earthly Delights gives moments to dwell in small details, to navigate through memory, and to find beauty in simply existing. 

This exhibition is sponsored by the Forward Arts Foundation in memory of Pamela Isdell.

Huey Lee, Sculptural Vessel - My Guardian! My Hero!
Stoneware, 15 x 15 x 12 inches

FAF is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the visual arts in Atlanta. Founded in 1965, FAF supports cultural programming and individual artists through grants and a variety of programs.