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October through 1 November, 2009 at The BOILER
191 N. 14th St. W'burg Brooklyn | Noon-6pm, Wednesday—Sunday
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YOON LEE | Borrowed Time
Pierogi
is delighted to present an exhibition of Yoon Lee’s recent paintings
at The Boiler. In this exhibition Lee continues to develop her primarily
large-scale, highly charged paintings in acrylic on PVC panel. Lee’s
paintings incorporate sweeping motion often set against, and moving through,
more static architectural and urban forms such as highway-like structures,
bridges, among others.
Lee develops her compositions by bringing together elements as diverse
as images that she’s compiled from popular media, her own sketches,
and photographs she’s taken of man-made structures. She scans all
of these elements into the computer and uses various filtering mechanisms
to manipulate the forms and capture the sense of motion in them. Whereas
futurists attempted to capture the physical sensation of motion and speed
of the newly invented automobiles and airplanes, Lee attempts to convey
the sense of chaotic activity, intensity, and speed of contemporary life—not
only in the physical world but also as experienced in the digital realm.
She notes—
“The allure of synthetic materiality in my work is close to that
of confectionaries and shiny plastic items that have inundated our culture.
This connection between the work and consumer goods reflects my interest
in consumption as a strategy to assuage urban anxiety. My work addresses
the relationship between this anxiety and the speed in which information
and signals travel through space. The convergence reflects my vision of
contemporary reality—complex and fraught with chaotic activity and
information overflow; often invisible yet bounded by a sense of physical
order.” (Lee, 2009)
To achieve this Lee has conceived a unique way of painting which combines
technology and meticulous handwork—both elements being integral
to her paintings. Her use of digital technology has allowed her to bring
a sense of speed and facility to the paintings and yet her actual painting
process is slow and meticulous. From a distance her paintings appear spontaneous
and perhaps even mechanically produced but, upon closer inspection, the
labor-intensive process she employs to make them is evident in the textured
layers of paint. Her paintings bring to mind a kinetic combination of
Pollock, Lichtenstein and Al Heald—dithered dot matrices and swirls
depicting deep space-like environments. In these new paintings Lee explores
movement through vertical space, resulting in a series of vertical formats.
“The urban setting has been a consummate space to express my view
of chaotic reality guided by perspectival order and directional movements,
and emphasizes the relationship between urban anxiety and the speed and
overflow of invisible information. My work process and focus on a synthetic
quality — amplified at the large-scale — imbue a sense of
ease and spontaneity from a distance, yet at closer view, captures the
immense abstraction of speed, density, and signal that traverse space
and time.” (Lee, 2009)
Yoon Lee was born in Busan, Korea and grew up mainly in Southern California.
She received a BA from UC San Diego and an MFA from the San Francisco
Art Institute. This is her second New York one-person exhibition.
The
Boiler, in progress
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