Jennifer Lee (b. 1977) paints depictions of found photography often sourced from internet forums and online shopping sites. Her work is startlingly photo realistic, rendered in an intimate scale that invests familiar objects with a psychological depth. Lee portrays photographs with a sharp self-awareness, painting on thick jute burlap that degrades the mechanical process of photography while perversely simulating it. Lee, a semiotician in a visual sense, chooses her subjects for their availability as collective symbolic objects and deploys them in sequences that produce a kind of quasi syntactical language, hinting at meaning but ultimately resolving themselves into an intuitive poetry. Despite their visual swiftness, these paintings are painstakingly constructed in an effort to pull an image apart and then rebuild it. The slowness and transgression of this process is reminiscent of Warhol’s early silent films as well as Vija Celmin’s meditative renderings.
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Review
Jennifer J. Lee Reviewed on Arsty.com
Jennifer J. Lee, whose artworks were presented at the Independent 2022, was discussed in Artsy's article "The Best Booths at New York Art Week." The author touches on Lee's practice, her use of jute, and the works presented.

news
Jennifer J. Lee Included in Group Exhibition at Super Dakota, Brussels
Jennifer J. Lee has two works included in Ecosystems of Relations, a group show at Super Dakota. The artworks are on view from January 13 to February 19, 2022.

museum exhibition
Jennifer J. Lee at the X Museum, Beijing
Hedges, 2019, by Jennifer J. Lee is included in 'Particularities' at the X Museum from September 5 to December 5, 2021. 'Particularities' is a group exhibition about contemporary, small-scale painting. At a time of increasing scale, expansion and general hypertrophy, this exhibition trains its gaze on painting practices that do the exact opposite.

outside exhibition
Jennifer J. Lee at The Sunday Painter
Drop Ceiling, Jennifer J. Lee's solo show at The Sunday Painter opens in London on November 18, 2021. Ten new paintings will be on view through December 17.

institutional exhibition
Jennifer J. Lee in "La Mer imaginaire" at Fondation Carmignac

review
Jennifer J. Lee
Rahel Aima writes about the work in Jennifer J. Lee's first show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery.

Book
Jennifer J. Lee
Planet Caravan, 2021
5.5 x 8.5 inch, 30 page, soft cover, full color catalog of Jennifer J. Lee's 2021 exhibition, Planet Caravan at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery.

Art Fair
Jennifer J. Lee at the Independent Art Fair 2022
Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery will present new paintings by Jennifer J. Lee at the Independent Art Fair 2022 in New York

review
Jennifer J. Lee and Joy Curtis
Joy Curtis and Jennifer J. Lee's solos shows at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery were listed in the February 4, 2019 issue of The New Yorker