----/ The Squid List /-------------------------------------------------- Yoon Lee, solo exhibition, Headlands Tournesol Awardee
Friday, July 7, 2006 6-8pm Free ----/ Event Description /----------------------------------------------- The Headlands Center for the Arts Tournesol Awardee for painting: YOON LEE will present large scale paintings. At first glance, Yoon Lee's paintings appear exuberant, as if her gestures capture the moment when chaotic forces transform into ordered systems. She squirts vividly colored acrylic paint out of plastic bottles to create slick, tactile surfaces filled with dynamic swarms of abstract shapes. Her bold yet graceful forms seem swept up in their own fast-paced trajectories, often set against traces of industrial architecture. When viewed more closely, however, it becomes evident that Lee's seemingly spontaneous marks are actually computer generated and painstakingly executed. She predetermines her formal vocabulary by scanning and "mixing" popular media images, drawings, and photographs of freeways, railroads, and engineering structures taken along the Port of Oakland-visual sites and by-products of global capitalism that the artist experiences on a daily basis. Her monumental paintings mesmerize with their synthetic materiality, ultimately evoking the ambivalent desire we feel when confronted by colorful plastic consumer goods, beautifully crafted confections, or successful advertising campaigns. We are seduced into believing that these glossy, overdetermined objects possess the power to comfort us. As the artist explains, "This connection between the work and consumer goods reflects my interest in consumption as a strategy to assuage urban anxiety. My work addresses the relationship between this anxiety and the speed in which information and signals travel through space." Born in 1975 in Pusan, Korea and raised in San Diego, California, Yoon Lee attended the University of California, San Diego, where she studied computer science, mechanical engineering and existential philosophy before deciding on a career in the arts. To augment her painting training, she studied for two years at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia before completing her BA in Visual Arts at UCSD. She earned her MFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2005. Since then, her work has been featured in solo and group shows throughout California, most recently in San Francisco at the TransAmerica Center, Crucible Steel Gallery, The Lab, Hang Gallery, Diego Rivera Gallery, and Catharine Clark Gallery, where her paintings in the 2006 "Moxie" exhibition garnered critical acclaim. In 2005 her work was selected by Arts Benicia for "Cream-From the Top", an exhibition highlighting the most promising graduates from Bay Area MFA programs. Lee was awarded 2005 residencies at both Headlands Center for the Arts as part of her Tournesol Award and at Idyllwild Arts near Los Angeles as a participant in their "Painting's Edge" series. --Lydia Matthews, Associate Professor of Visual Studies, California College of the Arts ----/ Venue Info /------------------------------------------------------ the luggage store 1007 Market Street (near 6th) San Francisco 415-255-5971 www.luggagestoregallery.org BART/MUNI Metro to Powell Street, 1 block west to 6th and Market, 6, 7, 71, F to 6th and Market; 21, 31 to 5th and Market, walk to 6th, Mission buses to 6th and Mission, walk 1 block north to Market ----/ Additional Info /------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 415-255-5971 www.luggagestoregallery.org ----/ The Squid List Admin /--------------------------------------------- The Squid List, a tentacle of Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/ subscribe, unsubscribe, change your email address or change your subscription options: http://lists.laughingsquid.org/mailman/listinfo/squidlist/ Frequently Asked Questions & Submission Guidelines Squid List FAQ: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/faq.html The Squid List Online Calendar: http://laughingsquid.org/squidlist/calendar/ The Squid List RSS Feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/squidlist ----/ Laughing Squid /-------------------------------------------------- Laughing Squid http://laughingsquid.com art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond Laughing Squid Web Hosting http://laughingsquid.net friendly, dependable and secure web hosting services for artists, individuals, bloggers, non-profits and small organizations The Squid List is licensed under a Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
