ABOUT
Baik Art presents Dialogical Self, a solo exhibition by Korean native, contemporary artist, Jinju Lee. Ms. Lee (BFA, MFA; Hongik University) melding tradition with contemporaneous philosophy in her thought-provoking artworks.
Professionally trained in Oriental Painting, she employs the boonchae technique, a distinctly Korean painting method where clusters of mineral pigment, previously suspended in water, are crushed and applied to a canvas coated in an adhesive. This East Asian style of painting with its lack of shading shows the true color of things (saek-gal) and plays into Lee’s narrative intent.
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JINJU LEE
Korean artist Jinju lee’s paintings are visual contemplations on the questions oft-repeated in life. Lee focuses on the residue of negative events and emotions which constantly resurface in everyday life. All rendered with Korean color on fabric, Lee’s paintings of memories encapsulated and floating islands scattered with relics of passing lives are poignant and unsettling. Memory is a powerful enigma many artists seek to debunk in their artwork, but the deep intensity with which Lee explores the painful questions of memory resounds throughout these images. “Life wanders, but memories remain,” quotes the artist.
