KYUNGLIM LEE

I majored in oriental painting at university. Oriental painting uses rice paper and allows you to work a little more freely than on canvas, which is bound to a frame. Perhaps the first work I did in the material technique class was a rice paper collage.

 My artwork are make with corrugated cardboard. My paintings are 3d paper sculptures made with epoxy resin on board. My work has been showcased in Seoul, Germany, Singapore, Hongkong, Miami, Seattle and Houston.   Over 30times solo exhibitions, and over 100 times juried group show. I have participated in numerous art fairs, such as the Affordable Art Fair, Houston Fine Art Fair and the Hong Kong Art fair.

 I have a BFA in Oriental Painting from the College of Fine Arts of Seoul National University.   I resides in New York, where I works as a full-time artist.

I use many different mediums, such as corrugated cardboard, acrylics, and resin. I believe that working in a single medium is restrictive to my artistic process. Each idea manifests in its own individual style. Corrugated cardboard is an inevitable by-product of modern mass production and transportation systems.

The cardboard, with winding symmetrical curves on its surface, stands for its necessary usage in today's commercial society as a reliable packaging medium. In my work, cardboard that has tacitly and murmurlessly finished its role as containers, protectors, and transporters of mass produced goods symbolizes a regeneration and a revival.

In fact, I feel fairly limited when it comes to using  colors as a sole medium of expressing textures. Instead, I cut and form soft and attractive cardboard into small pieces and attach them together before adding the color and creating a sense of a sculpted paper form. 

I enjoy traveling in my spare time and many of my pieces are directly influenced by these scenery in daily life. I love recreating picture and my memory in my work. In my work, a world of coexistence for tightly interrelated people  and a gorgeous nature creates a harmonized "a cappella".

 In a world where individuals are destined to fall into a state of lethargy under a suffocating social structure, I believe my work quietly reflects  my wishes to create a lively world where people find their purpose and meaning from one another.