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Kyong Lee is a Korean abstract artist whose work reconciles physical and emotional realities through a multi-disciplined exploration of color, material, process and form. She lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
Lee is dedicated to precision in her processes. She meticulously plans her color choices and dedicates a fixed amount of time to the mixing of each color. To create her gradated color paintings, she first layers tape in strips across the surfaces. Each layer of paint is applied over a fixed time span and allowed to rest for another fixed amount of time. This is a process of building up, layering, accumulating. The gradations express relationships between colors and moments. Some of her paintings feature text. For these works, Lee embosses the word she has selected for the piece into the surface first then applies a monochromatic hue that correlates to, and collaborates with, the chosen word. The color occupies the word and fills all of the space around it. For Lee, process is poetic, and essential to the meaning of the work.
In her work, Lee is responding to her emotional experiences within her physical surroundings. Color is her primary visual language. For her, color is not only self-referential. Color also relates to emotional states. It is a way of expressing feeling, of projecting thoughts, and of evoking the natural processes of life. Lee is inspired by the flow of time and the layering of experiences. She contemplates memory and the ways her vision of the past changes with the accumulation of time. She is also interested in automatism. Through unconscious processes she has made connections between different ways of communicating, such as associating specific words with particular hues in her Color as Adjective series. Additionally, Lee is concerned with the tilt of the planet on its axis. Earth is tilted at 23.5 degrees, a condition which causes us to experience the seasons in the way that we do. Lee wonders if there is a correlation here between our false assumption that we are standing horizontally and other assumptions we make, such as our assumptions about, as she says, “the horizon of emotions."
Work by Lee Kyong has been exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions in Korea and Germany. Recent solo exhibitions include Color as Adjective II in Chonan, South Korea, and Feeling, Language and Color in Seoul.
Work by Lee is in multiple public and institutional collections, including that of the Seoul Museum of Art, the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Bank, Seoul, Korea.
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Emotional Color Change 20
Kyong Lee
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 0 inch
$2,093
Emotional Color Change 19
Kyong Lee
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 0 inch
$2,093
Emotional Color Change 6
Kyong Lee
Painting - 53 x 45.5 x 0.1 cm Painting - 20.9 x 17.9 x 0 inch
$2,093
Drawing For Color As Adjective-noun 8 (Sky Blue)
Kyong Lee
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,178
Drawing For Color As Adjective-noun 7 (Pink)
Kyong Lee
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,178
Drawing For Color As Adjective-noun 6 (Grey)
Kyong Lee
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,178
Drawing For Color As Adjective-noun 5 (Blue)
Kyong Lee
Painting - 50 x 70 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 27.6 x 0 inch
$1,178
Drawing For 3 Vertical Configurations For Horizontal 14
Kyong Lee
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,112
Drawing For 3 Vertical Configurations For Horizontal 13
Kyong Lee
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,112
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 24
Kyong Lee
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$1,112
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 22
Kyong Lee
Painting - 50 x 65 x 0.1 cm Painting - 19.7 x 25.6 x 0 inch
$1,112
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 15
Kyong Lee
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,112
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 11
Kyong Lee
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,112
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 9
Kyong Lee
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,112
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 8
Kyong Lee
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,112
Drawing For 3 Horizontal Configurations 6
Kyong Lee
Painting - 65 x 50 x 0.1 cm Painting - 25.6 x 19.7 x 0 inch
$1,112
Emotional Color Chart 170
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Emotional color chart 184
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Emotional Color Chart 178
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Emotional Color Chart 176
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Emotional Color Chart 164
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Perfect coincidence 12
Kyong Lee
Painting - 33.4 x 21.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 13.1 x 8.4 x 0 inch
$981
Emotional color chart 198
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Emotional Color Chart 161
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Emotional Color Chart 156
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Emotional Color Chart 153
Kyong Lee
Painting - 70 x 30 x 0.1 cm Painting - 27.6 x 11.8 x 0 inch
$981
Record of Undefined Color 30
Kyong Lee
Painting - 130.3 x 162 cm Painting - 51.3 x 63.8 inch
$17,663
Emotional Color Change 17
Kyong Lee
Painting - 91 x 72.7 x 0.1 cm Painting - 35.8 x 28.6 x 0 inch
$5,037
Emotional color chart 01-spring
Kyong Lee
Painting - 72.7 x 91 cm Painting - 28.6 x 35.8 inch
$5,233
Emotional color change 34
Kyong Lee
Painting - 117 x 80.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 46.1 x 31.6 x 0 inch
$8,112
Emotional Color Change 14
Kyong Lee
Painting - 72.7 x 100 x 0.1 cm Painting - 28.6 x 39.4 x 0 inch
$6,673
Emotional Color Field 8
Kyong Lee
Painting - 180 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$13,083
Emotional Color Field 6
Kyong Lee
Painting - 180 x 60 x 0.1 cm Painting - 70.9 x 23.6 x 0 inch
$13,083
Emotional Color Change 24
Kyong Lee
Painting - 117 x 80.3 x 0.1 cm Painting - 46.1 x 31.6 x 0 inch
$8,308
Record of Undefined Color 23
Kyong Lee
Painting - 130.3 x 194 cm Painting - 51.3 x 76.4 inch
$20,934
Exhibitions dedicated to Kyong Lee
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Shades Of Green: Get Ready For Spring!
From March 20, 2024 to April 3, 2024
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Curated Abstract Artworks Under £5000
From January 24, 2024 to February 7, 2024
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Embrace the New Year: Dive into a Dazzling Assortment of Contemporary Art
From December 27, 2023 to January 10, 2024
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From November 15, 2023 to November 29, 2023
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From September 20, 2023 to October 4, 2023
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Pride Rainbow Art
From June 14, 2023 to June 28, 2023
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En vogue now!
From May 31, 2023 to June 14, 2023
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Bold colors for Spring!
From April 26, 2023 to May 3, 2023
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