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Exhibitions Press

Jennifer J. Lee

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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Museum Exhibition

Jennifer J. Lee at MoCA Los Angeles
Jennifer J. Lee is included in Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968 at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, CA. The exhibition, curated by Anna Katz is "the first large-scale exhibition to reexamine the postwar art movement of photorealism and trace its lineages in art of the present day." The museum exhibition is on view November 23, 2024 through May 4, 2025.

exhibition catalog

Jennifer J. Lee, Square Dance, 2023

Jennifer J. Lee Square Dance (2023), a catalog produced on the occasion of the artist’s solo show at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is available for purchase! The catalog consists of 16 pages in full color.

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

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

Jennifer J. Lee has work on view in "La Mer Imaginaire" a group exhibition curated by Chris Sharp at the Fondation Carmignac, France from May 20th to October 17, 2021.

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Jennifer J. Lee

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

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

Jennifer J. Lee has three paintings on view in Small Fixations, a group show at the Fondazione ICA Milano centered around small format works of art. The exhibition is open to the public October 28 through December 23, 2022.

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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.

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