Exhibit: foreordained gestureInland Crossing (Aug. 14 - 30, 2009

At Nüart Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

20th solo show. Showing Lee's current works that her harmonious marriage of western abstraction and eastern sensibility.


 

Of Silence and Shadow: Two Views Apr. 25-July 15 2009

At Pleasant Valley Library, Ogden, Utah

Two-person show with Frank McEntire (Assemblage artist). Inaugural exhibit.


 

Exhibit: foreordained gestureDimensional Poetics (Jan. 30 - Feb. 25, 2009)

At Julie Nestor Gallery, Park City, Utah

Solo exhibit. The new gestural paintings of Hyunmee Lee; intuitive line,on representational forms, and monochromatic spaces.

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Exhibit: foreordained gestureMedatative Gesture : Nov. 7 - Dec. 31, 2008

At Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

Essay by Bruce Adams, Solo show.

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Exhibit: foreordained gestureContact Sensation : Oct. 10 - 26, 2008

At Nuart Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Essay by Courtney Davis, Solo show. Lee focuses on the power of the shape, asserting her desire for her work to become “more simple and bold” as “inspired by a concept of .freedom. from the world” and from the artist.s own mind. This freedom takes the form of striking, dominant forms not seen in Lee's previous works.

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Exhibit: foreordained gestureTouch, Meditation Joins Gesture : Sep. 19 - Oct. 10, 2008

At Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City, Utah

Essay by Courtney Davis, Solo show. Touch showcases Hyunmee Lee's signature style of gestural abstraction, characterized by spontaneous gestures, nonrepresentational forms, and monochromatic space.


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Exhibit: foreordained gestureForeordained Gesture : Aug. 03 - 19, 2007

At Nuart Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Foreordained Gesture introduced a new direction in Lee’s work incorporated under three titles: Thousands of Roads, Seraphic Stone, and Elysian Foot. The new series uses symbolic large-scale mark making contrasted against a light background. Lee brought to her work the freedom of spontaneous gesture while maintaining a considered balance with conceptual intent.


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exhibit: Intimacy without RestraintIntimacy without Restraint: Mar. 10 - Jul. 9, 2006

At Utah Museum of Fine Arts, SLC, Utah

Solo show curated by Frank McEntire and essay by Jim Edwards (Curator at the Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah) featuring all square paintings (88x88 and 12x12 inches). In this show, Lee explored her individual study, which combined Asian philosophies and Western methodology.


                                                  
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Outside Sight: 2006

At Phillips Gallery, SLC, Utah


Solo show in conjunction with Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Intimacy without Restraint. Various sizes of large paintings and small works in grid were shown. Outside Sight paintings explore Lee’s sense of spiritual identity through gesture and space.


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When Gesture Finds Its PowerWhen Gesture Finds Its Power: Mar. 3 - Apr. 30, 2005

At Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah


Essay “chunji-changjo (heaven and earth): The “Creation” Paintings of Hyunmee Lee, by Frank McEntire, (Curator and artist, SLC, Utah)
Solo show of the Creation Series, Chunji-Changjo and Mee and Me, conveyed Lee’s thoughts of formlessness, which considers the idea that ‘the self in reality has no form.’ 90 Days of Improvisation, 90 pieces of 12x12 inch paintings demonstrating spontaneous gesture were displayed in grid. A panel discussion and lecture were also held during the show.


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Exhibit: Mountain ArmaturesMountain Armatures : Sept. 21 – Nov. 15, 2002

At the Woodbury Gallery, Orem, Utah


Essay by Bruce Adams (Art historian/ Art critic, Sydney)
Solo show inspired by the mountainous landscape of Utah, Lee has produced a series of large-scale compositions that combine her understanding of Eastern calligraphic traditions with an energetic design influenced by Western modernist painting. In essence, Lee’s response to living among the mountains of Utah became the driving force behind her art in 2001 and 2002. These paintings express the meeting point of her Korean past and American present.


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ExhibitSeeing Through the Self : Oct. 15 – 24, 1997

At Moin Gallery, Seoul, Korea


Essay by Seo, Seong-Rok (Art Critic, Seoul): Seeing Through the Self: Paintings by Hyunmee Lee
Solo show of large-scale paintings entitled “Connection” and “Seeing Through the Self”. The paintings presented were more free and abstract than before. Lee challenged herself to express human identity and existence with the absence of figures, but only through color, medium, and energy.

 

Exhibit: Objecthood-Intrinsic Space
Objecthood-Intrinsic Space: Apr. 21 – 29, 1995

At Ihn Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Essay by Kim, Bok Young: (Art Critic/ Professor, Hong-Ik University, Seoul): Unconsciousness and Gesture, An Autobiographical Interpretation of It: Lee Hyunmee’s “ Objecthood- Intrinsic Space
Lee’s 6th solo exhibition under the theme of “Objecthood-Intrinsic Space” focuses on the matter of ‘self’, and in so doing is “trying to explore the realm of the original human sprit.” Lee often used personally relevant objects, such as the window, door, chair, and bamboo. As a result of this show she established the methodology of her work.

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