Fluctuating between linear abstractions and plays on minimalism, Jim Lee challenges the priority traditionally placed on the pictorial surface within painting while toying with notions of painting as object and painting as experimentation. Lee investigates and maintains a tenuous, yet playful, dialogue between completion and destruction throughout his mixed-media practice, often by exposing the framework that lies beneath a canvas, cobbling together materials in a promiscuous patchwork of addition, and an indiscriminate mixing of high and low.

Jim Lee (b. 1970, Berrien Springs, MI) lives and works in Brooklyn and received his MFA from the University of Delaware in 1996. He has shown internationally at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York; Galerie Vidal Cuglietta, Brussels; Motus Fort, Tokyo; FDC Satellite, Brussels and Galerie Markus Winter, Berlin. Group exhibitions include the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Lamar Dodd School of Art at University of Georgia, Athens; Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson, MD; Ratio 3, San Francisco; LAND, Los Angeles; Islip Art Museum, New York; Galerie Ruth Leuchter, Dusseldorf; Galerie Lelong, New York; Andrae Kaufmann Gallery, Berlin; IMOCA, Indianapolis; White Flag Projects, St. Louis; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia; Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase.

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