Austin Lee

Austin Lee’s paintings and sculptures play between two temporalities; at once deeply reverent to the canon of renaissance painting and the interconnected, digital landscape which augments our own contemporary reality. Employing superficially benign, cartoon like imagery to captivate us, upon closer reflection, Lee’s work complicates and confronts issues surrounding not only our contemporary consumption of art in the digital realm, but also issues of hyper-connectivity, and the digital flattening of the contemporary experience in general. Lee’s works start as digital sketches in photoshop and 3D rendering programs. The painstak- ing translation from the screen to the painted canvas, or sculpted form, firmly roots Lee’s work within our shared art history. In 2019 Lee’s work was included in Wild Metropolis curated by Xu Zhen and Lu Pingyuan at the Powerlong Museum, Shanghai. In 2020, Lee will have a major solo exhibition at the M Woods Museum, Beijing curated by Victor Wang as well as a solo exhibi- tion at Peres Projects, Berlin on the occasion of Berlin Gallery Weekend.