Kakyoung Lee "Climbing Up"
The West 10th Street Window
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Time Equities Inc. presents the newest addition to the Art-In-Buildings program: an exhibition space located at 223-225 West 10th Street that exists solely as a storefront window, level with the sidewalk, completely unassuming, allowing artwork to be seen exclusively from the street.
Kakyoung Lee, Climbing Up, the inaugural exhibition in this space, features a two-channel moving image projection of a character endlessly climbing up a wooden plank. Lee’s delicate moving images belie her time-consuming and intricate process, which involves the creation of hundreds of hand drawings or etchings to produce the final animated work. Lee challenges notions of scale and the viewer’s mode of perception with works that serve as witnesses to everyday moments, like waiting to cross the street, that are usually quickly forgotten or unacknowledged. This subject is apt for a storefront exhibition space; the audience includes pedestrians hurrying from one place to another who will encounter the installation by chance.
Kakyoung Lee received a BFA and MFA from Hong-Ik University, Seoul and an MFA from Purchase College, NY. Lee’s work has been the subject of several recent solo exhibitions including, Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles; Mary Ryan Gallery, New York; and Brain Factory Gallery, Seoul. Lee’s work has been included in international group exhibitions including, The Drawing Center, Lower East Side Print Shop, The Museum of Modern Art, Queens Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Bremen, and Seoul Arts Center. She was a 2012 resident at Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY. Climbing Up is currently on view at MASS MoCA in the exhibition, Making Room: The Space Between Two and Three Dimensions. Her work is also currently on view as part of The Metropolitan Museum’s prints and drawings collection.
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Schedule
from December 01, 2012 to January 10, 2013