Austin
Lee's exuberant paintings extend Pop Art into the present. As Andy Warhol used
photo silkscreens to connect painting with the image-making technologies of the
1960s, Lee fuses digital techniques with traditional painting and sculptural
processes to create totally contemporary works of art. Lee "humanizes"
the digital sketches into lush paintings and vibrant sculptures. His work
becomes a bridge between the digital and the physical.
Earlier
generations of artists began their careers sketching on paper. Lee began by
using Photoshop and other digital tools to sketch on his computer. His work
combines the latest image making technologies with traditional artistic
processes. He uses the airbrush and the paintbrush to create luminous paintings
that evoke both the light of a computer screen and the bold coloration of color
field painting.
In addition
to digital drawing techniques, Lee uses 3-D modeling software to manipulate
perspective in both his paintings and sculptures, creating forms that are not
found in nature. He is one of the rare artists who has invented his own
artistic vocabulary. Both his paintings and his sculptures are instantly
identifiable as works by Austin Lee. With his original fusion of techniques,
Lee creates iconic images that embody a contemporary vision.
In addition
to his paintings of the invented images that emerge from his drawings, Lee will
also be showing a group of new portraits that he paints from life. He has been
painting visitors to his studio with airbrush during the past several years,
resulting in an accumulation of faces. He describes them as being more about
capturing a feeling than a likeness. "I work on them until they feel like
someone is there."
Austin Lee
received his MFA from Yale in 2013. During the past two years, he has presented
solo exhibitions at Peres Projects in Berlin, Bank Gallery in Shanghai, and
Kaikai Kiki in Tokyo. His work was included in Punch, curated by Nina Chanel
Abney at Jeffrey Deitch in the fall of 2018.
INFO
Tuesday May
7 2019 - Saturday May 18 2019
Venue name:
Jeffery Deitch
Address: 18
Wooster St
New York
Cross
street: between Canal and Grand Sts
Opening
hours: Tue-Sat 10am–6pm
Transport: Subway:
A,C, E to Canal Street
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