Artist Studio Visit – Zaun Lee
Thursday, May 9, 2013 1:00-2:30 pm
200 West End Ave #11M (70th Street), New York, NY 10023
Please contact AHL Foundation at 516-983-3935 or info@ahlfoundation.org
Zaun Lee
Zaun Lee attended College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University and graduated Cum Laude from Alfred University with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting at Pratt Institute. She was featured in many exhibitions throughout the United States and South Korea including one-person and group exhibitions at the Longwood Art Gallery at the Bronx Council on the Arts and Christina Ray Gallery in New York. She contributed a Korean translation of Jurgen Habermas’s “Modernity – An Incomplete Project” to the Tuning section of the 2011 Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale in Korea. She was a recipient of the 5th AHL foundation Visual Arts Award & Grant in 2008 and a nominee for the 8th Kumho Young Artist Award at the Kumho Museum of Art.
Lee creates her art works on a grid. The grid is a practical tool that has efficiently shaped contemporary society in physical and symbolic ways. She considers the grid as a compositional unit of individual pixels in technology and internet media. By manipulating, reducing or expanding grid units, she posits a question of how this mathematic system of division and segmentation of grids can simultaneously be a functional system of connection and unity when it embraces individualization, differentiation, multiplicities, and divergences. She presents philosophical questions of existentialism and phenomenology and visually interprets theories of postmodern epistemology and linguistics.
