DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Jinju Lee, an artist who has garnered much attention for incorporating her contemporary and personal sensibilities to Korea’s traditional painting methods, as our first exhibition of 2014.

Jinju Lee connects commonplace objects from our daily surroundings to dreams and memories, creating a personal and surreal narrative that expresses the dynamic and multi-layer inner life of contemporary beings. Materials like stockings, water, dirt, and plastic bags that appear in A way to Remember and Black and Burning One were selected by the artist repetitively asking herself questions, and therefore symbolically reveal memories of her experience as well as her private everyday life. By using Korean ink and colored fabrics, Lee creates an exquisite and realistic portrayal of the space of memory embedded inside her subconscious and places that do not exist in reality? thus showing a delicate sensitivity characteristic of Korean art that is uncommon in Western oil painting.

In keeping with DOOSAN Gallery New York's continuous recent programming highlighting Korean Painting, Jinju Lee's exhibition will provide a good opportunity to observe the Identity and potential in Korean Contemporary Painting.

Jinju Lee (b. 1980) received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. in Oriental Painting from Hongik University. She has had solo exhibitions at 16 bungee (2011, Seoul, Korea), Gallery Hyundai Window Gallery (2010, Seoul, Korea), and Gallery Jungmiso (2008, Seoul, Korea). Her works have also been included in group exhibitions at DOOSAN Gallery New York (2013, New York, NY, U.S.A), Edwin’s Gallery (2012, Jakarta, Indonesia), Gallery S.E (2012, Bergen, Norway), Project Space Sarubia Dabang (2011, Seoul, Korea), Korean Cultural Centre (2011, London, U.K), Ilmin Museum of Art (2010, Seoul, Korea), and Sungkok Art Museum (2009, Seoul, Korea).

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© Jinju Lee
courtesy of the artist and Doosan Gallery