1078 Gallery Hours:
Thu–Sat
12:30–5:30 p.m.
and for our many events.
current exhibition
Prints by Jimin Lee
April 7-23
Lobby Show to accompany Rogue Theatre's Jane Eyre
Jimin Lee is an associate professor and heads the print media program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the guest juror for CSU Chico's Turner Print Museum's 16th Annual Juried Student Print Exhibition running April 18-May 13 (closing reception and awards announcements at the University Art Gallery, Taylor Hall, 6pm, May 13) and will give a talk April 7, 3-3:50pm, in Ayres 120 on the CSU Chico campus. She will be discussing her work and various artist in residency programs that she has participated in. Her paintings and prints can be viewed at her website.
Jimin Lee is a Korean-born, Oakland-based painter and print media artist. She graduated from Seoul National University with a BFA in painting (1990) and an MFA in printmaking (1992). As a recipient of a Japanese governmental scholarship, she studied printmaking at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music (1992-93). She also holds a second MFA in printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute (1997).
Lee draws motifs from mundane activities and everyday social interactions. Her work seeks to convey a sense of emotional and psychological intensity through reimagining these encounters symbolically. Combining digital printing, photomechanical processes and chine collé, she uses numerous plates in each of her etchings to produce uniquely complex images. Lee has an extensive background in print medium that include both traditional and contemporary and both Eastern and Western with an understanding of their histories.
Lee has had solo exhibitions at Anchor Graphics in Chicago; QCC Art Gallery at the City University of New York; Don Soker Contemporary Art in San Francisco; DoART Gallery/Hyundai Gallery in Seoul; Shirota Gallery in Tokyo; AndrewShire Gallery in Los Angeles; Megalo Gallery in Canberra, Australia; and Open Studio Gallery in Toronto, Canada. Notable group exhibitions include Crosscurrents: 8 American Contemporary Printmakers at Il Quadrato di Omega, Rome, Italy and Tradition & Innovation II at Museum Zallerein Halle 6, Essen, Germany.
Since 1995 Lee has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
top right: The Two Doors, Photo etching, Spit bite, Pigment on Kozo, Chine collé, 32" x 18", 2006
bottom left: Rainy Arrival, Photo etching, Spit bite, Pigment on Kozo, Chine collé, 20" x 26", 2008