Timothy H. Lee (b. 1990, South Korea) - Traces (2012-2013) The works of emerging Korean-American artist Timothy Hyunsoo Lee are inspired by themes of social stigma, identity, psychological disorders, and more recently, of spirituality and religion. He explores these themes through a novel vector – paintings and sculptures consisting largely of cell-like marks that vary in size, color, and saturation. His works, almost exclusively in watercolour and gouache, are seen as ethereal and delicate, but the extremely labor-intensive compositions, marked by intensely obsessive repetitions, quickly betray that initial perception. Exploring his own history of anxiety disorders through his art, Timothy confronts and manipulates his tics and compulsions and channels them into his works. In responding to his anxiety with art, he has developed a novel system of mind-mapping – “a cartography of his psychopathology” – to study a part of himself that initially drew him to study developmental biology and neuroscience in college. Timothy lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. © All images courtesy of the artist [more Timothy H. Lee | via actegratuit]
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