Grace Lee
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up Up UP, Grace Lee, 2020, oil on linen, 105 cm x 80 cm
Taken from an instructional shadow puppet guide by Utagawa Hiroshige, the shadow bird is placed alongside the origin of its illusion. The hands may transform and take flight, but only behind the criss-crossed paper door that becomes their cage. The grid takes on the impression of a sliding puzzle. If only we could solve it.
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The Optimist Vs. A Category 3, Grace Lee, 2021, oil on linen, 180 cm x 100 cm
A battle of wills between the wind and a tree. The tree defies the demands of the wind, rejecting their multi-directional influence, but it also relies on them - what is an optimist without adversity?
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Play Me Like A Cheap Kazoo, Grace Lee, 2021
Over the lapel of a yellow blazer, a small hand holds an oversized kazoo. We might expect the narrow end to be the mouthpiece, trained on a roster of narrow mouthpieced wind instruments, and so believe it is angled away from us, perhaps offered to the figure in the blazer. But, in fact, it is the wider end that should be blown into. The end that is offered to us. The lightning bolts of sound signal the abrupt surprise that can only come from the realisation: you've played yourself.
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High Drama, Grace Lee, 2020, oil on canvas, 120 cm x 150 cm
Four horsemen sit upon their steeds. The two parties appear disconnected, both preoccupied with their own level of the composition. But the formal symmetry of the tidy scene is betrayed by a stray muzzle stepping out of line to the lower left of the image. There's something brewing here, but the exhaustion of the horses and the composure of the figures suggests that maybe the apocalypse is a mundane affair. Creeping gradually, you might not notice it at all.
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all my pots, Grace Lee, 2020, oil on canvas, 70 cm x 120 cm
'all my pots' gathers a selection of vessels drawn from The British Museum's collection, an attempt to hold onto objects that are themselves used to hold and carry. The words, written with scrapbook style enthusiasm, express a childlike mater-of-factness which is fitting for the ease with which the original images were accessed, possessed, appropriated. This, then, raises questions of ownership and legitimacy (via a museum that is famously under scrutiny for its 'possessions'). And while I may not possess the objects... the images of the objects? Those I can steal as fast as you can say 'right click, save as'.
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Hey now, Hey now (don’t dream it’s over), Grace Lee, 2020, oil on canvas, 180 cm x 115 cm
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Knowing Me, No-ing You, Grace Lee, 2021, oil on linen, 138 cm x 76 cm
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'Bow Wow To Me' and 'Big Solo', Grace Lee, 2020, oil on linen, 20 cm x 25 cm each
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'Bella Notte' and 'Beloved', Grace Lee, 2021, painting
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Parasol Park, Grace Lee, 2020, hand drawn frame by frame digital animation
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Grace Lee – MA/MFA
Price List
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up Up UP
2020
Oil on linen, 105 cm x 80 cm
£540
2
The Optimist vs. A Category 3
2021
Oil on linen, 180 cm x 100 cm
£1000
3
Play Me Like a Cheap Kazoo
2021
Oil on linen, 115 cm x 85 cm
£580
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High Drama
2020
Oil on canvas, 120 cm x 160 cm
£780
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all my pots
2020
Oil on canvas, 70 cm x 120 cm
£6406
‘Hey now, hey now (don’t dream it’s over)’,
2020
Oil on canvas, 180 cm x 115 cm
£920
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Knowing Me, No-ing You
2021
Oil on linen, 136 cm x 76 cm
£720
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Not for Sale
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Belle Note
Beloved
2021
Oil on paper, 30 cm x 40 cm each
£100 each10
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All works are unframed, unless otherwise stated, and prices shown do not include postage and packaging.
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