A daughter of Korean immigrants, Jenny Sueyoun Kim was born in 1977 just outside Los Angeles, CA. Growing up in L.A., her upbringing was enriched by the city's cosmopolitanism and cultural diversity, plus a good ten months of beach weather each year. She left the beach eventually, and moved to Berkeley in 1995 to attend the University of California. She has since been living in the San Francisco Bay area.
Jenny has been creating art in various forms for as long as she could remember. As a young child, she was inspired by her grandfather, an artist who raised four children painting and teaching art. After too many years without art in her own life, Jenny began taking evening Metal Arts classes at the City College of San Francisco in 2004. She immediately became addicted to the medium, and her long work-weeks became slightly more tolerable. She has been designing and creating metal art on a full-time basis since 2007.
Jenny's work is inspired by sensual and natural forms: floral motifs, the human body and face. She sculpts each of her pieces from wax before the casting process, and therefore, no two pieces are identical; each is a one-of-a-kind original. She sculpts in her San Mateo home, and then does her casting and finishing work out of a metalsmithing studio in San Francisco's Mission district.
[For more information than you probably want to know about Jenny, see the Bella Online article: "Jenny Sueyoun Kim Jewelry Designs." ]
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