In Search of Deep Human Relations

Painter Lee's work depict a message of love and hope toward integration

    
Painter Lee Jung-ae, an accomplished abstract painter, is engrossed with Oriental idealism, especially, those on human relations. She draws her artistic inspiration from Mandala, along with the colors that make up her painting, although she is a Western-style painter, say critics.
The painter, who graduated from Yongnam University Graduate School of Fine Arts, is sometimes known as a painter of Mandala, because of her infatuation with the religious motives in her painting and she tries to realize the original form of Mandala when she wants to express human relations based on love in her paintings,
She says that she always meets with her inner self when she is engaged in her work deeply and intensively. She says the contemporary artists display their own aspirations and theories in a sharp manner in a variety of ways. "I myself have been trying to find new ways to express my inner thoughts and inner being in paintings."While painting,
she says she installs herself or us human beings as the center of the circle and the forms surrounding the circle could be from me to you and from you to me or other myself - us human beings and their lives. Sometimes she gets an intense desire or an urge to paint the order of space, not seen to human eyes, and grab them and transpose them in paintings. She says she tried to paint them as the summit of the world or recreate them as a ground and express them.
But her methods are Western and her work sometimes appear like silhouettes, with the sense for Western contemporary painting. A joint awareness that expands from a point like nets for network linked up in order. It is maintained and sustained like our society and in broad terms, the magnified awareness for the Earth Village.
In 2005, she won the Female Award from Mayor of Seongnam City. Painter Lee currently is professor of art at Dongui University College of Arts and lecturer at Kyongwon College Applied Art Dep't.
"From Me to You,
from You to Another Me"and "The Seeds of Dandelion,"displayed on her solo exhibition at Leehyung Art Gallery in Insadong this past May depict her wish for making the world a wonderful as the seeds of dandelion spread to the world.
Her paintings were put on display at the art market in the outdoor plaza of Seongnam Art Center in Seongnam City June 9-10 at an exhibition intended to promote the work of new modern painters living in the city or nearby areas. The event will be held in once in every two weeks, in second and fourth week of every month until the end of the year. (By NewsWorld Elizabeth M. Oh) nw

From Me to You and from You to another Me: Mixed Media-72.7x50cm.

Me, You and Us

Long Journey-Acrylic on Canvas

From Me to You, From You to Another Me-Mixed Media-300x198cm