Sally
November 1—13, 2024
Seung-Jun Lee accompanied by Chris Hernandez
November 1—13, 2024
Seung-Jun Lee accompanied by Chris Hernandez
A Skin-Cell Temporary No. 2, short term residency at Living Skin
A one-week residency program featuring Seung-Jun Lee and his bike, Sally. They embark on daily trips, where Jun would record each journey via personal mind map to capture both the erratic and peaceful qualities of biking in the city. Using rubbing techniques and paper collage, Jun collected textures from various parts of Brooklyn, gathering marks and evidence unique to each trip. Interested in New York City’s fast-paced rhythm, Seung-Jun and Sally’s collaboration offers a momentary retreat and a perspective that explores how speed and tempo affect perception—both on and off the bike.
“"Sally," a popular first name for many American girls in the Roaring Twenties,
shares the same name Korean artist Seung-Jun Lee gave his red and blue Trek
730 Multitrack “made in the USA” bicycle. Every single moment of his week
and a half residency was spent together with her. From her guardian presence
protecting him as he sketched eight feet in the air, to being the only other
body in his room where he slept each night, Sally is the muse for Jun’s smile.
In between the segments of a 50-mile journey with Sally, Jun shifts his focus
from the outdoors to the walls and ceilings of Living Skin, where he both
creates new pieces and tears up older collections of his drawings. In this
totality—a thousand independent canvases of paper and graphite-on-paint markings—Jun presents us a prophetic vision of his Heaven...”
— Jerome Wang
— Jerome Wang
Seung-Jun Lee’s artistic practice contains social and cultural themes relating to his critical perspective on the contemporary world, influenced by his experiences migrating back and forth from Korea and America. Jun’s work focuses mainly on ceramics and large-scale drawings idealizing internal intuition and the labor put into the analogue making process. With his main focus being drawings made from graphite, his images portray the raw expression in intertwining both nature and media culture. Jun has recently exhibited his first solo show in the states with Creative Alliance (Baltimore, MD) and is currently situated in Brooklyn (NY).
Christopher Hernandez is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York.
61 Wyckoff Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11237
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