Hannah Lee's West Coast debut at Dumbo's Feather features a collection of new oil paintings that present dream-like scenes frozen in time. The works, completed this year, reveal Lee's internal motivations and invite viewers to connect with their own experiences. Despite her significant visual impairment, Lee skillfully utilizes photographs and a grid-based method to create highly realistic depictions of emotional and architectural facets of human life. Her process explores the nuances of perception, transforming familiar domestic settings into realms of deeper contemplation about humanity and perception.
Lee's remarkable command of her medium makes way for depictions of the subtle, sometimes preternatural aspects of human life.
Inside of Lee's painterly process, hidden paradoxes belie the realism at hand.
By using photographs in-hand and pre-mapped through a grid, Lee's imagery in the painting process transforms our understanding of visual representation.
In doing so, a kind of abstraction occurs, much like looking at or hearing something many times over that it no longer resembles itself.
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