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Susie J. Lee: Shadow Playing to Open at The Art Gym
For Release: December 09, 2008Susie J. Lee: Shadow Playing
Exhibition: January 6 – February 11, 2009
Artist reception: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, January 11, 2009
Gallery talk noon, Tuesday, January 27
The Art Gym, Marylhurst University
Susie J. Lee: Shadow Playing will open at The Art Gym, Marylhurst University on January 6 and continue through February 11, 2009. A reception will be held with the artist on Sunday, January 11, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
At noon, Tuesday, January 27, curator Terri Hopkins will moderate a gallery talk with the artist Susie Lee. Admission is free for both events.
For Shadow Playing Susie Lee is creating a series of rooms, each with its own set of experiences. Like the artist's 2007 show Refrain at Lawrimore Project in Seattle, the artist will use projected video and sound.
Curator Terri Hopkins writes, "Shadow Playing, like Refrain, addresses issues of personal loss. In contrast to the 2007 exhibition that explored the loss of a partner, the topic of Lee's exhibition for The Art Gym is the loss of parts of the self that one leaves behind in the transition from girlhood to womanhood. Lee is interested in the playfulness of girls and the elusiveness of childhood. In Shadow Playing the viewer will catch glimpses of the shadow of a girl and hear the sound of her voice. One work, Red Light/Green Light, takes its title from a playground game in which children move forward when the caller turns her back and calls out 'green light,' and freeze at the words 'red light' when she spins and tries to catch them moving. The game itself is a kind of stop-action live animation. Lee intends to capture the traces."
Susie Lee was born in Hershey, Pa., and grew up in Grand Forks, N.D. The daughter of Korean immigrants, Lee graduated from Yale University in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry and was awarded a master's in teaching from Columbia University in New York City in 1995. She taught science at the high school level for several years before pursuing a profession in art. Lee began exhibiting her work in 2000 and completed her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Washington in 2006. Lee's art is in private collections in Seattle, New York City, Denver, London, Austin, Atlanta, New Jersey, Rome and Seoul. Her art is also in the collections of the Boise Art Museum, Washington State Services for the Blind, Colby College Museum of Art and the Wing Luke Asian Museum. Lee lives in Seattle and is represented in that city by Lawrimore Project and by the Galleria Tiziana Di Caro in Salerno, Italy.
The Art Gym programs are supported in part by the Oregon Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Art Gym is on the third floor of the B.P. John Administration Building at Marylhurst University, which is located one mile south of Lake Oswego on Highway 43. The Art Gym's regular hours are Tuesday through Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Admission is free. For additional information, call 503.699.6243.
Founded in the fall of 1980, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University has a 28-year history of presenting work by hundreds of artists based in the Northwest. The Art Gym has published more than 50 exhibition catalogues and sponsored more than 100 conversations about art in the region. In 2004-2005, The Art Gym was a recipient of the Governor's Arts Award.