Sarah Lee (b.1990) is a Los Angeles-based artist. She was born in 1990 in Korea, grew up in New York and studied Fine Art at the Pratt Institute of Fine Arts. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in 2016, and MBA from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea in 2021. Her art dwells in the contentious realms of politics and philosophy. Raising important questions on the tenuous boundaries of social constructs through her practice, Lee redefines contemporary notions of intuition and logic.
She held her first solo exhibition, I Am Not Unconscious, in February 2016, followed immediately by Ignis Fatuus, in July 2016. She had a solo show: Episteme, A Free Man’s Yoke in March 2021, which took place in Punto Blu gallery in Seoul, Korea.
"I work with colors and movements. The physicality of the gestural brushstrokes and the interplay between the colors represents the complexity and the inconsistency of the mind. Paintings are the gateway to one’s mind: They are sensual and playful, yet immersed in abstraction. Without exiting the traditional settings of a painting, I question the boundaries within the system. The gray-areas between representation and abstraction, primitiveness and sophistication, intuition and logic, and attraction and repulsion are proposed to the audience to encounter the subjective nature of the mind. I push the paint around, accompanying the paint to search for its place. As an artist, I hide and reveal on behalf of the painting. Frequently, I also lose control, allowing it to change its mind. The human mind has no boundaries - it is inconsistent, child-like, logical and indefinite. I work to represent this within the four corners of a canvas."