Kyoungmi Lee

Installation View ⓒ 2024. Kyoungmi Lee and GALLERY PALZO. All rights reserved.

The exhibition ‘Last night and Neurath’s boat’ by artist Lee Kyoungmi (b. 1977, Gyeongju), renowned for her cat-themed artwork, marks her first solo exhibition in Daegu. This exhibition features significant works from various series, reflecting the artist’s creative journey.

Brugge on the Table – A New Life, 2024, Oil on constructed birch panel, 120x97x11cm, ⓒ 2024. Kyoungmi Lee. All rights reserved.

Among the principal works are those where Lee Kyoungmi has expressed herself through her beloved cat, Nana, depicted on canvas, in glass bottles, and on wood panels. This includes the series, which features cats in spacesuits. The and series provide clues about the artist’s past and capture gestures or scenes representing her attempt to understand the world, as explored through her experiences with books. Meanwhile, the series presents deflated, crumpled balloons that were once inflated, vibrant, and shiny, reflecting the contrast between inflated dreams and their disappointing reality. Additionally, the series expresses various eras of art through layered work, reflecting the artist’s interest and affection in a unique manner based on editions of classic books, magazines, comic characters, and typography. Over 20 pieces of

11. LET THE SUNSHINE IN in Pink, 2022, Oil on constructed birch panel, 105x105x11cm, ⓒ 2022. Kyoungmi Lee. All rights reserved.

In particular, Lee Kyoung-mi aims to demonstrate through her works that the world does not converge to a single vanishing point by creating biological illusions using techniques such as bas-relief, rather than presenting fixed forms in her paintings. She continues to expand her artistic world.

Still Life – Love, 2022, Oil on constructed birch panel, 60x60x8cm, ⓒ 2022. Kyoungmi Lee. All rights reserved.

Lee Kyoung-mi, who graduated from Hongik University with a BFA in Printmaking (2000) and Painting (2004), and completed her Master’s degree in Painting (2006), has lived and worked in the United States and Germany for about nine years. She is now actively involved in the art scene in Korea, as well as in various galleries, museums, and projects in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. In 2019, she presented the ‘New Vertical Painting’ series, which, based on Albrecht Dürer’s ‘Apocalypse of John,’ captures contemporary relevance, and received the 24th Seokju Art Prize.

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