Young Lee

Young Lee invites us in. In Night Studio  - the artist’s first solo show with the gallery – she exposes the Pressures of the Artist as Young Woman. She insists on it,  boldly repeating the same images from her studio: broken pencils, lazy brushes, bored mugs and cuckoo clocks, angrily ticking down. The objects overwhelm her and Lee’s vulnerabilities are front and center. She sits with the anxiety. 
Each work is mise-en-abyme, scenes within scenes where Lee (always her own subject matter, herself often repeated within each painting) is studying or reading, preparing brushes, thinking and seemingly always about to paint. 
Of course, the paintings appear before us, as do a series of drawings: her anxieties have materialized, taking us further down the rabbit hole. 
Other clues and references are hidden elsewhere. She clutches the existential masterpiece The Pigeon in one work and the ghost of Philip Guston repeatedly haunts her throughout. Look closely and you’ll see images of women treading water, beading with sweat and reading under a spotlight that belongs in an interrogation room. She’s not particularly kind to herself - she’s honest. 
It all results a series of sophisticated paintings of interiors, literally and metaphorically, exposing a much darker underbelly than what first appears beyond the cheery palette and cherubic figures. Lee provokes and intrigues us. She captures us. The viewer becomes the voyeur and we can’t stop looking.

Young Lee : Night Studio

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4 A.M., 2021

Oil on Linen

36 x 36 in