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1W-101

A build-up of thin light-beige curved lines scratched into a black canvas.
Artist

Il Lee

Date

2010

Medium

Acrylic

oil stick and stylus on canvas

Object Type

Painting

Dimensions

H- 34 x 50 in. (86.4 x 127 cm)

Artist's Country of Birth

South Korea

Collecting Area

Art by Immigrant Artists

Credit Line

The Vilcek Foundation

Accession Number

2010.01.1

Copyright

© The Vilcek Foundation

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A build-up of thin light-beige curved lines scratched into a black canvas.

About the Artist

A celebrated Korean-born artist, Il Lee is best known for his ballpoint pen technique. Born in 1952, Lee moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s and later settled in a Brooklyn, New York, where he continues to live and work today. Highlighting the process of mark-making, Lee creates etchings, drawings, and oil works characterized by simple yet complex forms. Out of these forms, a movement emerges, which examines the relationship between positive and negative space and, in turn, reflects the forces between serenity and chaos. His gestural lines propose ideas suitable to the intensity, range, and depth of the freely expressed hand, a practice linked to the Korean art of Sumukhwa, a form of ink painting characteristic of a culture whose history proceeds from a traditional, apparently spontaneous activity of great concentration and daily absorption.

The Artist;
Crow Collection of Asian Art, Dallas, TX;
[Art Projects International, New York, NY];

Dallas, TX. Crow Collection of Asian Art. ll Lee: New Vision: Ballpoint Drawings, May 22-September 26, 2010, p. 32-33, ill.

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