Brooklyn-based painter Jennifer J. Lee’s present exhibition “The Falls” reveals 11 new work at Klaus von Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York. Lee continues to level-up her strategy of portray photorealistically on jute burlap – a cloth that’s so coarse and porous that any representational picture appears technically not possible, not to mention capturing the perfection and determination of digital pictures. All of it leads to a profound elevation of the daily and invitations the viewer to play in a world between pixels and materials, phantasm and physicality.
Jennifer J. Lee: The Falls. Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, 2025
Lee sources her pictures from the web, utilizing her iPad as she paints, thereby purposefully and immediately translating glowing pixels into bodily brushstrokes. That paint additionally discover a new grid of “actual pixels” on the low-thread rely jute cloth, the place each the digital and bodily decision (usually totally different) can each be sensed.
Jennifer J. Lee, Tennis, 2024
Jennifer J. Lee, Tennis, 2024 (element)
The latest work within the exhibition “Seaside, 2024” measures solely 12 by 21 inches and seems like a JPEG picture had bother representing the person grains of sand – producing slight shade glitches. Lee’s translation of that precise impact is now overlaid onto a brand new crisp grid of thread. Even the open areas between the threads (that appear as if tiny black dots) mimic grains of sand.
Jennifer J. Lee, Seaside, 2024
Jennifer J. Lee, Seaside, 2024 (element)
Lee’s work additionally dances between the actual cloth and the represented materials of the chosen topic. “Safety Mirror”, for instance, is a battle (or good stability?) between the prickly fibers of the jute and the slick picture of a wonderfully clean mirror. Whereas in “Stripes”, the attention oscillates between the actual thread rely of burlap and the material of the picture. Every thing right here is an excellent and highly-considered alternative in each topic, scale and its ensuing dialog with the fabric and method.
Jennifer J. Lee, Safety Mirror, 2024
Jennifer J. Lee, Safety Mirror, 2024 (element)
Jennifer J. Lee, Stripes, 2024
Jennifer J. Lee, Stripes, 2024 (element)
The centerpiece of the exhibition is a single wall holding 4 work of blue denims. “Lee Denims” is a sly wink on the artist’s personal identify on the label, whereas “Acid Denims” painstakingly renders the random patterns of an “acid wash” with perfection. Look nearer to notice that the pants don’t appear to be worn by an individual. A number of pictures tease the view of a model or show kind above the waistline whereas they grasp barely stranger than they might on an actual physique.
Jennifer J. Lee: The Falls. Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, 2025
Jennifer J. Lee, Lee Denims, 2024
Jennifer J. Lee, Lee Denims, 2024 (element)
Jennifer J. Lee, Acid Denims, 2024
Jennifer J. Lee, Acid Denims, 2024 (element)
Lee’s work continues to query, reveal, and problem the velocity and expertise of pictures we eat each day. Her work are each totally acquainted and completely unusual – inviting us to decelerate, rethink the potential, and have a really actual and profound expertise with a digital picture made “actual” by way of an unrelenting and unbelievable dedication.
Jennifer J. Lee: The Falls. Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, 2025
Jennifer J. Lee’s “The Falls” is on view at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York by way of February twenty second, 2025. And if you happen to’re in Los Angeles, you’ll be able to try a number of of Lee’s work which might be presently on view on the Museum of Up to date Artwork (MOCA) within the group exhibition “Abnormal Individuals: Photorealism and the Work of Artwork since 1968”.
WHAT: Jennifer J. Lee “The Falls”
WHERE: Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, 87 Franklin St, New York Metropolis, New York
WHEN: January 10 – February 22, 2025
All full paintings and set up pictures courtesy the artist and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York.
Element pictures by writer, David Behringer.
