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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Jennifer J. Lee in T Magazine
Jennifer J. Lee’s work is featured in an article, “The Art World’s Next Big Thing: Tiny Paintings,” by Julia Halperin, published this week in the New York Times T Magazine.

Museum Exhibition
Jennifer J. Lee at MoCA Los Angeles

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

news
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.

news
Jennifer J. Lee in Group Show at the Fondazione ICA Milano

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.

Review
Jennifer J. Lee’s ghostly familiarity
A review of Lee’s 2023 solo show Square Dance by Kyle Hittmeier.