http://www.jiyounlee.com Jiyoun Lee-Lodge Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:02:55 +0000 http://www.jiyounlee.com en http://jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-09-1 http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-09-1 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:02:55 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2676445 <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2676445/mindscape-09-1-s.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="500" width_o="1000" height_o="747" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2676445/mindscape-09-1-s_o.JPG" align="left" /> Mindscape 09 -1 15 x 18 1/2" total size 13 x 16" image size Screenprint on paper 4 prints 2011 *inv11_SP0095 contact me for more information jiyoun@jiyounlee.com 2006-2012 © Jiyoun Lee-Lodge http://jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-09 http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-09 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:00:44 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2676426 <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2676426/mindscape-09-s.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="861" width_o="778" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2676426/mindscape-09-s_o.JPG" align="left" /> Mindscape 09 15 x 18 3/4" total size 12.5 x 17" image size (4 directional) Screenprint on paper 10 prints 2011 *inv11_SP0094 contact me for more information jiyoun@jiyounlee.com 2006-2012 © Jiyoun Lee-Lodge http://jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-08-1 http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-08-1 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:53:30 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2676380 <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2676380/mindscape-08u-s.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="862" width_o="777" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2676380/mindscape-08u-s_o.JPG" align="left" /> Mindscape 08 -1 (unique print, 4 directional) 29 x 22" total size 22 x 18" image size Screenprint on paper 1 print 2011 *inv11_SP0093 contact me for more information jiyoun@jiyounlee.com 2006-2012 © Jiyoun Lee-Lodge http://jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-08 http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-08 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:49:46 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2676342 <img src="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2676342/mindscape-08-s.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="896" width_o="747" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload18.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2676342/mindscape-08-s_o.JPG" align="left" /> Mindscape 08 29 x 22" total size 22 x 18" image size (four directional) Screenprint on paper 5 prints 2011 *inv11_SP0092 contact me for more information jiyoun@jiyounlee.com 2006-2012 © Jiyoun Lee-Lodge http://jiyounlee.com/Interviews-Articles-on-JLL http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/Interviews-Articles-on-JLL Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:32:03 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2407534 IAMWHATIAM Rina Koshkina 12.3.2011 Jiyoun started out as figurative and, as she calls it, “emotional” artist. Recognizable imagery served the purpose of recalling a memory or a situation. Jiyoun used people to represent her own complicated web of emotional, physical, and psychological states. For instance, the work called Guardians of 2009 is actually a self-portrait. It represents various components which comprise Jiyoun, at that particular moment in time: her practice, her humanity, her gender. Jiyoun is represented in the center, appearing here in a man’s body and surrounded by two people, who represent the world around her. The title “Guardians” also signals the starting point of integrating abstract forms into works along with figurative way. At that point in her career, faces and human form helped Jiyoun channel her feelings and be expressive in a recognizable non-abstract form. However, overtime, not unlike Rothko, she realized that the figurative forms alone simply do not communicate what she wanted to express. <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide02.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide02_o.jpg" align="left" /> Jiyoun became more interested in the process she calls “catching the mind”. She thought that “everyone can do a portrait, a likeness of someone”, but she questioned “what is the influence on the world in that process?” That’s when Jiyoun started experimenting with more abstract imagery. She became fascinated with the interaction between line, shape, color and form. Her creations became about seeing something “as a whole, from every sensory and visual angle”. “Uneasy compromise” of 2009 is one her abstract-surrealistic paintings. Vibrant colors and fluid organic forms, play with the viewer’s mind’s eye by fooling it with slight resemblances of a recognizable form or a shape, to only burst into something completely unexpected (like the snake-like form, morphing into a completely different “fountain-like” shape). “Uneasy compromise” is from the ‘Cognitive Machine’ series of paintings, where Jiyoun tries to visualize “the system of the memory and belief through abstract forms”. She says, “The process of thinking, structure of decision making, and cause and effect of remembering – the icons of nerves and senses are laid as if they are construction site, factory, or a machine.” All of this becomes a kind of inner portrait, when what’s underneath the skin, outer layer, and in the mind, is turned inside out. “Voices 1” is one of Jiyoun’s more recent colorful mindscapes. Later, we’ll be able to see how these paintings almost literally come alive in the form of installation. The play of shape, form, and color will protrude into space, creating depth, and even more complex abstract language in motion. <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide03.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide03_o.jpg" align="left" /> These works can be compared to the works of Roberto Matta, who was one of Chile's best-known painters and the 20th century abstract expressionist and surrealist artist. His “Origins of the extreme” was painted in 1941. Similar to Jiyoun’s “Uneasy compromise”, in Matta’s work expressive bold colors, shapes, and lines flow from one another, morphing into the featureless background. Jiyoun’s connection to the works of surrealists is further reconfirmed by her pieces called “Mindscapes”. It is worth mentioning here that Matta also had a series of works called "inscape", as well as "psychological morphologies". Staying true to the core message in her art, namely the “relationship between the artist – Jiyoun – and the world and people around her”, “Mindscapes” utilize a different medium – drawing – to communicate this core theme. Jiyoun says that for her, there are “things that cannot be verbalized and even visualized”. In these drawings, Jiyoun challenges herself to represent a thought, a feeling, an experience and its memory in a visual form. Jiyoun readily acknowledges her strong ties to surrealism, difference comes from the fact that her paintings do not come from the world of dreams or unconscious. Rather her art is a product of careful thought and process, and full awareness of each component, with very little, if anything at all, left to accident or automatism. <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide04.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide04_o.jpg" align="left" /> Pavel Tchelitchew was a Russian-born surrealist painter, set designer and costume designer. He left Russia in 1920 and moved to Paris where he lived for the rest of his life. Tchelitchew’s “Metamorphic landscape” of 1941 can be compared to Jiyoun’s drawings. Both artists use the lines, organic shapes and play with the mind of the view while putting their own mind and souls on view. <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide05.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide05_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide06.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide06_o.jpg" align="left" /> Most recently Jiyoun started to explore depth and architectural value. Installations, such as “Breathing – lost”, are some of her most recent creations. If one knows Jiyoun’s earlier expressive surrealistic paintings, then the Breathing-lost installation is a natural progression. It feels as though Jiyoun, in a very predetermined and conscious way, makes her earlier work come alive and make it three dimensional. The installations that Jiyoun is working on now create the opportunity for the viewers to "stumble" upon something sensory, visual or even imagined, creating a different reality. <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide07.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide07_o.jpg" align="left" /> While this newest piece is still a work in progress, this installation demonstrates Jiyoun’s fearlessness and ability to explore deeper and further into the possibilities of expression. In this piece, she seemingly easily sheds what would appear to be the focal feature of her work – color – and makes the installation in “pure” white, or monochromatic orange. Jiyoun describes herself as a porcupine with lots of antennas. “All the experiences go through me. I am a human, so I can't catch everything. My memory is constantly changing. The challenge is to communicate it to the viewer”. Installations offer an opportunity for Jiyoun to add other sensory effects to create that “total” experience she desires, including sound and smell. Hybrid mediums provide the opportunity to help Jiyoun maximize the capacity to express herself. For her color represents desire. In the current installation project ‘islands’, she is experimenting with limiting and repressing her “desires” by not using color. Jiyoun says, “I fear white. It’s open to beauty and dirt. I maximize the forms themselves and the weight of them by limiting color.” <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide08.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide08_o.jpg" align="left" /> Jiyoun’s newest work is called “IamWhatIam” where she is wearing her installation art in a performance. As you will see in a moment, this work resembles Tanaka’s “Electric dress” which is a powerful fusion of the tradition of the Japanese kimono with modern technology. Tanaka was making a connection between electrical wiring and the physiological systems that make up the human body. Hundreds of light bulbs painted in primary colors lit up along the circulatory and nerve pathways of her body. [this is from Paul Schimmel, “Leap into the Void: Performance and the Object”) For Jiyoun, “IamWhatIam” is a representation of making sense of her identity. It is a complex web of questions and answers of who she really is. As Jiyoun puts really eloquently saying, “I am not exactly Korean, not exactly American; the amalgam of influences which become an unidentifiable ‘thing’, something you can mistaken as something native, or something exotic.” The colorful shapes are from previous installation ‘Breathing-Lost’. The inspiration for wearing the clothing came from the desire to imitate Hanbok, which is traditional Korean clothing. “I bow and I pick the things up and put it on to me. Through this performance, I accept whatever I have become”, says Jiyoun.<img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide09.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide09_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide10.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="502" width_o="720" height_o="540" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2407534/Slide10_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://jiyounlee.com/Suscribe-my-email-list http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/Suscribe-my-email-list Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:24:36 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2395727 #mc_embed_signup{background:#fff; clear:left; font:14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; } /* Add your own MailChimp form style overrides in your site stylesheet or in this style block. We recommend moving this block and the preceding CSS link to the HEAD of your HTML file. */ Subscribe to my art email list * indicates required Email Address * First Name * Last Name * Email Format html text mobile http://jiyounlee.com/Open-Studios http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/Open-Studios Fri, 02 Dec 2011 04:24:34 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2395668 2011 Fall MFA Open Studio @ Brooklyn College <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0727.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="405" width_o="1280" height_o="775" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0727_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0719.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0719_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0702.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0702_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0692.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0692_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0690.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1005" width_o="853" height_o="1280" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0690_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0674.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0674_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0671.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1005" width_o="853" height_o="1280" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0671_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0668.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0668_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0654.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0654_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0651.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0651_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0717.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="1005" width_o="853" height_o="1280" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0717_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0644.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="960" width_o="893" height_o="1280" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0644_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0604.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0604_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0602.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="879" width_o="975" height_o="1280" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0602_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0601.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="864" width_o="992" height_o="1280" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0601_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0570.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0570_o.jpg" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0510.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="1280" height_o="853" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2395668/IMG_0510_o.jpg" align="left" /> http://jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-06-black-and-white http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-06-black-and-white Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:36:27 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2394108 <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394108/mindscape06-black-s.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="487" width_o="700" height_o="509" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394108/mindscape06-black-s_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394108/mindscape06-white-s.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="489" width_o="700" height_o="511" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394108/mindscape06-white-s_o.JPG" align="left" /> Mindscape 06 -black edition Mindscape 06 -white edition (4 directional) 29 x 22 " total size 25 1/2 x 19 1/4 image size screenprints, unique prints black - 3 prints *inv11-SP0088 white - 5 prints *inv11-SP0087 2011 contact me for more information jiyoun@jiyounlee.com © Jiyoun Lee-Lodge http://jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-07-editions http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/Mindscape-07-editions Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:35:57 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2394163 <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394163/mindscape07.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="489" width_o="760" height_o="555" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394163/mindscape07_o.jpg" align="left" /> Mindscape 07 - yellow vellum edition 23" x 35" Lithograph on vellum 5 prints 2011 *inv11_Li0089 <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394163/mindscape07-j-1.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="421" width_o="698" height_o="439" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394163/mindscape07-j-1_o.JPG" align="left" /> <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394163/mindscape07-j-2.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="700" width_o="700" height_o="732" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394163/mindscape07-j-2_o.JPG" align="left" /> Mindscape 07 - japanese paper edition (wheat) 23" x 35" Lithograph on vellum 5 prints 2011 *inv11_Li0090 <img src="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394163/mindscape07-jw-1.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="420" width_o="680" height_o="427" src_o="http://payload4.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2394163/mindscape07-jw-1_o.JPG" align="left" /> Mindscape 07 - japanese paper edition (warm white) 23" x 35" Lithograph on vellum 2 prints 2011 *inv11_Li0091 contact me for more information jiyoun@jiyounlee.com 2006-2012 © Jiyoun Lee-Lodge http://jiyounlee.com/IamWhatIam http://jiyounlee.com/following/jiyounlee.com/IamWhatIam Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:57:44 +0000 Jiyoun Lee-Lodge 2226100 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2226100/shot2.JPG" border="0" width="670" height="576" width_o="948" height_o="816" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2226100/shot2_o.JPG" align="left" /> IamWhatIam 2011 single channel video, installation Installation wearing performance (3' 40") Watch video online installation view from 2011 Fall MFA Open Studio @ Brooklyn College <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2226100/388334_10150490504379343_626779342_10269322_991319939_n.jpg" border="0" width="670" height="446" width_o="960" height_o="640" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/1/50792/2226100/388334_10150490504379343_626779342_10269322_991319939_n_o.jpg" align="left" /> 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