- ProgramDOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards
- Artist Sojung Lee
Calyx
2013 Ink on paper 47x47 in
anthologia
Sojung Lee
March 7 – April 6, 2013
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 7, 6-8pm
DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to present anthologia, a solo exhibition of Sojung Lee, from March 7 to April 6, 2013. The exhibition features the United States premiere of her latest paintings.
Lee paints organic patterns which present infinite forms and arrangements in ink on the Korean traditional paper. The body-like patterns in delicate repetition first appeared in her early series of painting within narrative form and have developed into abstract variation. The patterns have interpreted in female body, fetus or male sex organ however they originated from her subconscious which often visualized as her dialectic exploration of painting in her strategy of practice.
The title of the exhibition, anthologia originally means 'flower-gathering' in Ancient Greek. Passing through steps of grafting, Lee's paintings are reborn into a new piece of work through the process of scission and recombination of her previous works. In her recent series of Calyx, the grafting has been completed and it has arrived at the flower bud formation. By emphasizing the calyxes of flowers, Lee takes notes on the state of implicitness and its latent period rather than pleasure of the momentary blossom and the visualization of her method of the body-like pattern making under the certain rules. Throughout her works Lee expresses her consideration of the process as being more important than the results.
Sojung Lee (b. 1979) received a B.F.A. in Korean Painting from Ewha Woman's University and a M.F.A. in Oriental Painting in Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. She has had a solo exhibition at Brain Factory (2010, Seoul, Korea), Gallery 2 (2009, Seoul, Korea), and Kumho Museum of Art (2007, Seoul, Korea). Her works also have been included at Kumho Museum of Art (2012, Seoul, Korea) Aando Fine Art (2010, Berlin, Germany), Alternative Space LOOP (2008, Seoul, Korea), Seoul Museum of Art (2008, Seoul, Korea), and Insa Art Space (2007, Seoul, Korea).