Community engagement and social justice
Site-specific and integrated art
2-D art, including murals, mosaic, photography, etc.
Pittsburgh Creative Corps Artist Directory
Julie Lee
Primary Discipline
Artistic Practice
Assemblage, including found objects, multimedia
Digital / photography
Painting/works on paper/printmaking
In Her Glory, 2020, silk, series of seven scarves ranging from 17″ x 17″ to 35″ x 35″
All That She Has, 2021, photography, 10″ x 10″
She who (was/is/will be) me, 2021, screen print, 11″ x 14″
At the Head of the Class, 2021, series of six CMYK screen prints with additional glow-in-the-dark layer, each print is 12″ x 16″
Asians Have Been Here Longer Than Cowboys, 2022, installation composed of 40 screen prints, 8′ x 5′
About the Artist
I am a Korean-American artist from Alabama, creating lens-based works (primarily collage and photography) to explore themes of ancestry and the photograph as existential affirmation. I explore these themes through family albums, specifically in the matrilineal lineage that comes with me and the women around me.
Using family albums, I create compositions where my loved ones’ beings and memories are shown and centered. The mediums of the camera and collage allow for these compositions to exist and evolve in any shape or form they need to keep living. It is to capture the vibrancy of the materials and memories held by individuals who are culminations of past experiences, joys, trauma, and lives. To photograph an image is to capture a moment that can hold many narratives and realities to multiple viewers. For every new interpretation made about an image, a new world is discovered and crafted from that interpretation. I hope for my work to speculate and encourage new ways of seeing and being seen, conjuring historical and psychological reconstructions of the sisterhood around me.
My work has been exhibited in Columbia University’s PostCrypt Gallery, the Curated Fridge, the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Filter Space, the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh International Airport. My work has also been featured in publications such as the Journal of Art Criticism, Yale University’s Asterisk* Journal of Art and Art History, Hyperallergic, Fraction Magazine, the Michigan Quarterly Review, WSHU Public Radio, and KQED.
Photo by Julie Lee
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Accreditations, Certifications, and/or Awards
- Dear Artists with Anxiety Residency Honorable Mention, 2023;
- Pandemic Pedagogy: ArtWorth Tuition Grant, 2022;
- The Nassau Literary Review National Undergraduate Art & Writing Contest Runner-Up, 2022;
- The Cosmos Care Fund Micro-Grant, 2022;
- Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency Merit Partial Scholarship, 2022;
- Children and Youth Artists’s Grief Deck Micro-Commission Grant, 2022;
- Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Microgrant, 2021;
- Ask with Kenner Global Languages & Cultures Micro-Commission Grant, 2021;
- Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Residency-in-Your-Room Grant, 2020
Provides Fabrication Services to Other Artists
Yes
Teaching Artist
Yes, ages 3-7
Joined the Directory
May 2022
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
“As an artist that creates work on the psychological reconstruction of the Southern AAPI experience (specifically the ways of seeing and being seen from the historical archives, as well as the tension that comes from these representations), I believe that an opportunity in the public realm would encourage the collective exchanges of ideas that my work is interested in and committed to.”
Julie Lee
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PROJECT
Pittsburgh Creative Corps
Designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Pittsburgh Creative Corps initiative engages artists and creative workers to activate the public realm while providing economic opportunity.
