Jin Young Lee "The Sensibility of Today"
Kips Gallery
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In recent times, the trend of art has been tending to the diversity of expression, each artist with its own peculiarity, rather than art being part of any one movement. While installations or video works seem to be less in favor as compared to previous times, a certain form of traditional painting is more prevalent today.
Abstraction, which has been around for over a century has been declared dead times and again. Each time, some artists prove this notion false by re-inventing abstraction with new visions, new materials, new ideas. Lee Jin Young, while painting in a traditional way, manages to bring a fresh look to her work. Color and form are part of overlapping shapes which interact in a syncopated way giving the whole surface a lively truculence. In some works, there is a “modulation” of colors, where each opposite hue somehow contribute to the harmonious resolution of the finished painting. This sensitivity betrays her formal education in music. Lee Jin Young started to play the piano at six years of age. She has had a professional career as a pianist, performing for many years.
Her musical past therefore informs us about her current work. Colors contrasts,. but within a harmonious whole. Exuberance, but tampered with delicate “counterpoints”. All of it, one might say: “played” in the key of life.
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from June 15, 2010 to June 30, 2010