PAUL LEE

Paul Lee (b. 1974, London, UK) is a New York-based sculptor, collagist, and video artist who crafts assemblages from used domestic and everyday objects, including dyed terry cloth towels, tambourines, and empty soda cans. Lee’s evolving visual language exploits universally understood relationships between use and form. By transforming familiar materials into colorful abstractions, Lee subverts their function and draws out their implicit connection to the human body. He considers these accoutrements to be the abstracted “portraits” of the person who used them: the synthesis of “an object-body and an image-mind.” His recent exhibitions include JTT Gallery, New York (2021); Adams and Ollman, Portland, Oregon (2021); Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton (2020); Karma, New York (2019); David Shelton Gallery, Houston (2018); Modern Art, London (2018); Michael Lett, New Zealand (2017); Jeffrey Stark, New York (2016); Maccarone, Los Angeles (2016); Untilthen, Paris (2015); and University of the Arts, Philadelphia (2015).