Simplified silhouettes remove colour, detail and identity to become universally accessible.
As funny as they are tender, Lee’s voluptuous monochrome figures hang like inflatables in negative space. While the compositions look digitally rendered, they’re in fact created on canvas and paper using a selection of oil and acrylic paint, pastel and graphite. The artists’ process is largely instinctive. To start, he sketches abstract shapes which stem from his imagination and then, by adding recognisable elements such as hair, t-shirts and limbs, he personifies them. The blank faces and plain clothes are intentional, designed to be open to interpretation so that any viewer - irrespective of...
Bio
American visual artist Mike Lee was born in 1983 in Placentia, California, and now lives and works in New York.
Achievements
He has exhibited at biennales and galleries all around the world, in locations such as South Korea, Germany, Japan, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Hong Kong and the Netherlands.
Did you know?
He has worked as a colour key artist on internationally acclaimed animated feature films such as Ice Age and Rio.