July 12th, – August 10th, 2007

Pompei A.D.’s C3 Gallery is pleased to announce Jeesoo Lee’s first solo show in New York. After graduating from Sungshin Women’s University in her native Seoul, Korea, Ms. Lee moved to New York in 2004 to complete her studies at State University of New York at New Paltz. She graduated in 2006 with a Master’s degree in Fine Art.

Jeesoo Lee’s forceful yet delicate works often evolve into vast installations that can fill entire rooms and reveal a whole new understanding of the material world. She rarely buys materials at the store but uses scraps of metal and plastic wire, string, copper foil, nails, paper, cardboard, and textiles that she finds in dumpsters and in the street and then weaves and works into wild, seemingly chaotic artworks. Her work is process-oriented and she never makes sketches or blueprints. Drawing on her emotions, which frequently change over the course of a work, she is suspicious of too much intellectualizing. People close to her and classical music often inspire her but these sources, too, change and cannot be reduced to a common denominator. Asked to name influences or models from art history, she mentions Cy Twombly as an artist who has been important for her. Despite their apparent painterlyness, Ms. Lee says her works are rooted in drawing or, as she also calls it, ‘drawing with materials’.

In her current exhibition ‘she’ Jeesoo Lee presents drawings and installations that she made over the last two years.

Curated by Marion Wild

(translation by Dieter Kuhn)