Flower Layers | Paper collage | 90.9 x 60.6 | 2011
Flower Layers | Paper collage | 90.9 x 60.6 | 2011
Flower Layers 1 | Paper collage | 72.7 x 60.6 | 2011
Education
1999 Chung-Ang University, Painting Department. M.F.A
1985 Chung-Ang University, Painting Department. B.F.A.
Award
2004 Selected Artist for SAC Young Artist
1998 Dong-A Prize Winner, Dong-A Fine Arts Festival
Solo Exhibitions
2010 SEUNG-O LEE Seoul Art Centre
2006 Gallery Mee
Jinsun gallery.
2004 SAC 2004 Young Artist Exhibition Seoul Art Centre - Hangram Art Museum Seoul, Korea
2002 Kwanhoon Gallery Seoul, Korea
2000 Gallery Hyundai Seoul, Korea
1999 Total Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul, Korea
1998 Kwanhoon Gallery Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Art and play - Art in superstar (Seoul Art Center)
2008 International Art Festival (Seoul Museum of Art)
2007 ZKM-Exhibition of 10th anniversary (Germany)
2007 Exhibition of New Collections
2006 National Museum of contemporary art Korea
2007 ‘Noah's Ark' (National Museum of contemporary art)
2002 International Eco-Environmental Art Exhibition
Collection
National Museum of contemporary art
Seoul Museum of Art
Art Bank
The artist statement
When I work with the discarded books that I gathered,
I relish the moment in which the destruction and creation coexist.
The books are freed from their original function of transmitting knowledge,
And they go through a transformation to become a medium of new expression.
The transformed books are no longer the books they once were.
And they turn into lines and colours.
When these lines and colours meet to take a shape,
A painting that is unbound to a fixed form is discovered.
As time and events are accumulated to create a history,
My paintings are born out of such process.
When I work with the discarded books that I gathered,
I relish the moment in which the destruction and creation coexist.
The books are freed from their original function of transmitting knowledge,
And they go through a transformation to become a medium of new expression.
The transformed books are no longer the books they once were.
And they turn into lines and colours.
When these lines and colours meet to take a shape,
A painting that is unbound to a fixed form is discovered.
As time and events are accumulated to create a history,
My paintings are born out of such process.
I visited the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea on Friday and was absolutely captivated and enthralled by Seung-O Lee's beautiful paper sculpture Art. The pieces I saw were vibrant and so detailed. I love the technique used to create these wonderful pictures.
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