Jim Lee

Born in Michigan, USA


Jim Lee’s work is a meditation on the inherent properties of creation. It emphasizes basic formal convictions, such as structure, color, and space, while simultaneously eradicating the boundaries and preciousness of those conventions at every turn. The pairing of these disparate parts, where sentimentality meets rhetoric, and playfulness confronts austerity, supplemented by a craftsman’s deftness, guides Lee in and out of painting’s legacy. He pulls apart and screws together his formative non-objective art influences as means of re-interpreting the world. Jim Lee received his MFA at the University of Delaware before locating to Brooklyn, NY.



Jim Lee, "Pride and Shame", Oil enamel and dust on tape with bubblewrap filling, 22 x 15 x 6 in, 2009.