PhosphenesGallery BeleniusStockholm, Sweden
Lee’s work invites modes of looking and interpreting, and while the abstract landscapes certainly are there too, as a fan of eroticism in art it is the concealed voyeuristic windows that have the strongest hold on me. While Lee to some extent evades binaries of “masculine” and “feminine” in abstraction; supple figures and tender gestures acted out by an arm or the soft gaze on a face that begin dawning before the eyes are what disintegrates the work from more masculine undertones/overtones of abstraction. I’m able to find two kinships in this regard; I think of both Celia Hempton and Cecily Brown; two painters who successfully have prompted forward corporeal eroticism in contemporary painting. Lee’s work certainly is less confrontational and demurer than Hempton in terms of the male and female sex overtly on view, but her Sweet Regrets unmistakably bears aspects of both these painters.
– Ashik Zaman, 2024
Sodales: Malesuada
Nulla: Sapien
Proin: Dignissim