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Jennifer J. Lee’s New Paintings on Burlap Are Unbelievable

By David Behringer

12/18/2025

Brooklyn-based painter Jennifer J. Lee’s current exhibition “The Falls” reveals 11 new paintings at Klaus von Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. Lee continues to level-up her technique of painting photorealistically on jute burlap – a fabric that is so coarse and porous that any representational image seems technically impossible, let alone capturing the perfection and resolution of digital images. All of it results in a profound elevation of the every day and invites the viewer to play in a world between pixels and material, illusion and physicality. Read More