Sandra Eula Lee SLOW BURN

As an artist, Lee often uses and transforms common materials to address themes of displacement and upheaval—a sense of landscapes caught up in the rapid change of demolition and construction, as she has experienced them both in Korea and China. Yet she finds compelling that even in the midst of enormous upheaval people will create small spaces that serve as gardens or simply spots that define a personal place. Some of the works address this phenomenon and invite the viewer to experience a configured space that elicits awareness of transient calm or solace. - Professor of Art History, Richard K. Kent

Sandra Eula Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who transforms familiar objects and materials to disrupt assumptions related to permanence. She questions fixed states and orientation, sometimes reframing her materials and at other times altering their chemistry through the application of heat, fire, or fermentation.

Lee often uses industrial materials in her sculptures, including bricks, concrete, electrical wire and other materials of construction. She recombines them with hand-made forms in her sculptures and installations, exploring changes made to the built environment. For this presentation, Lee creates a new version of her Portable Pond, inspired by the ponds located within East Asian gardens. She conceives the garden as a space of contemplation, reflecting its surroundings.

Lee's work has been exhibited internationally, including a 10-year survey at The Hilliard Museum in Lafayette, LA; Art Space Pool in Seoul, South Korea; the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Inside-Out Museum in Beijing; DadaPost in Berlin; Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University; Smack Mellon in Brooklyn; Goucher College in Baltimore; and recently at the Delaware Contemporary and Ethan Cohen KuBe in New York.