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14/6/2010

Maelee Lee

Elga Wimmer, New York

Curate by Thalia Vrachopoulos

Maelee Lee's recent work comprises photography, video and sculptural installations in a post-minimalist style that embraces simplicity yet has multi-dimensional content. These media link Lee to the Post-minimalists who in their anti-formalist enterprise sought to redefine art adopting an anti-painting stance. Lee's photographic sculptures usher in a new direction because of their depicted naturalism that remains nevertheless conceptual.

Whether working with photography, video projection or sculpture Lee's focus remains conceptual as the real substance of her work. While Minimalists like Judd and Serra in their embrace of purist aesthetics declared painting dead for its inability to be a literal sculpture object without reference to the real world, Lee plays with space rendering it illusionistic thus is antithetical to their enterprise. Not only do her works contain references to nature but they are not literal objects of sculpture being photographs.

And, it is precisely because of these references to the real world that Lee's photographs are not like the sterile silent cubes of the minimalists, but are warm and inviting. Lee has revitalized art by reintegrating it into life by creating such sculptural photographs. The artist explores the visual process by creating perceptual ambiguity so that when looking at her installations one can never really be sure of their spatial relationship to their surroundings.

This constant questioning of viewed space results in an ambivalence that maintains retinal dynamics. So that, Lee's work cannot so easily be placed into any one particular category or style. Her purist rendering of space is like Judd's as is her multiplication of objects. Do these tendencies make Lee a Minimalist? And, Lee's engagement with spatial ambiguity relates her work to Op Art. One thing for sure, conceptually Lee is close to the minimalist So Le Witt who in 1965 wrote "the idea of concept is the most important aspect of the work.... The idea becomes the machine that makes the art."

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Opening reception Tuesday June 15th, 2010 from 6-8 PM.

Elga Wimmer
526 West 26th Street, 3rd Floor - New York USA
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