The Language as Storage series is part of Maia Ruth Lee’s solo exhibition of the same title, on view at Picture Room from May 13 – July 21, 2022.
This body of work features three unbleached canvases with compositions of childrens’ sewing patterns rendered in India ink. The stark and striking figures play with the literal and symbolic functions of a pattern. They are at once a communication device – a code to be followed, a set of symbols to accomplish a form; while also implying the subjective figure that will be housed in the patterns.
Maia Ruth Lee is an artist born in Busan, South Korea. Select solo exhibitions include Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, Eli Ping Frances Perkins and Jack Hanley Gallery in New York. Leeʼs upcoming 2022 exhibitions will take place at Francois Ghebaly (LA), Aspen Museum, Champ Lacombe (FR) and ICASF. Lee participated in numerous group exhibitions including the Whitney Biennial 2019, CANADA gallery, Studio Museum 127, Salon 94 in New York, and Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles. Lee was the recipient of the Gold Art Prize in 2021 and the Rema Hort Mann grant in 2017. Her work is held in the public collections at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She lives and works in Salida, Colorado.
India ink on unbleached canvas
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