Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL) has selected Kakyoung Lee as its 2010-2011 Workspace Artist-in-Residence.  JCAL’s Workspace Program will provide Ms. Carvalho with a private studio for a period of 12 months and the possibility of exhibiting her work in JCAL’s gallery at the conclusion of her residency.

Artist Statement

My moving images are lyrically poetic first person stories based on my self and identity as an artist. Trying to locate my identity, I seek it in the different geographic and cultural milieus through which I have passed. The cyclical journey is a central metaphor for not only the travels between my two home countries, South Korea and the United States, but also of my daily life and its rituals. My daily life is depicted with graphite with printmaking methods, then photographed. Hundreds of images are drawn, erased, and redrawn. Finally, the last sequence of images is all that remains on the paper, along with the traces of erased images.

Kakyoung Lee

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Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning selects Kakyoung Lee

for Workspace Program

Jamaica, New York – June 17, 2010 - After a highly competitive application process, Kakyoung Lee has been selected by the Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning as its 2010-2011 Workspace Artist-in-Residence.  JCAL’s Workspace Program will provide Ms. Lee with a private studio, a stipend and the possibility of exhibiting her work in JCAL’s gallery at the conclusion of her year-long residency.

Asked to describe her work, Kakyoung Lee says, “My moving images are lyrically poetic first person stories based on my self and identity as an artist. Trying to locate my identity, I seek it in the different geographic and cultural milieus through which I have passed. The cyclical journey is a central metaphor for not only the travels between my two home countries, South Korea and the United States, but also of my daily life and its rituals. My daily life is depicted with graphite with printmaking methods then photographed. Hundreds of images are drawn, erased, and redrawn. Finally, the last sequence of images is all that remains on the paper, along with the traces of erased images.”

Combining drawing, printmaking, and sound, Ms. Lee creates moving images based on her cyclical daily life. She holds MFAs from Hong-Ik University (Seoul) and Purchase College (New York), and has been a resident at The MacDowell Colony (New Hampshire) and Yaddo (New York). She received the space grant from the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation. Her works have been exhibited widely in the United States at The Lower East Side Print Shop, The Drawing Center, The Museum of Modern Art, and Queens Museum, and at the Seoul Arts Center in Korea.

Kakyoung Lee’s begins her Workspace Residency on July 1.

The Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning is housed in a landmark building owned by the City of New York and is funded with public funds provided through the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; the New York State Senate and Temporary President Malcolm A. Smith; the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg; Cultural Affairs Commissioner Kate D. Levin; the New York City Council; Council Speaker Christine Quinn; the Queens Delegation of the Council; Deputy Majority Leader, Councilman Leroy Comrie; and Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall.

 JCAL’s Workspace program is supported with public funds provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.