The Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. proudly presents Resonance, a solo exhibition of dreamlike glass installation and sculpture works by Jubee Lee, the center’s 2019 Artist of the Year. Lee explores her personal memories and perception by creating immersive art spaces that integrate interactive sound, light, and visual elements. Growing up in a seaside city, she is particularly inspired by the natural element of water and creates innovative, large-scale installations, sculptures, drawing, and paintings that reflect this influential setting primarily through layered, image-embedded glass.

In Resonance, Lee presents a selection of contemplative installations built around the visual motif of the repeating Korean traditional roof tile, kiwa, a powerful reminder of her childhood and the imaginative potential of of her inner mind. Through this exhibition, audiences are invited to enter into a meditative dialogue with the artist and their own inner self as they become immersed in the gentle waves of kiwa that exist through the ethereal nature of glass. 

The Artist of the Year recognition, presented to a single artist featured at the Korean Cultural Center, spotlights outstanding creators of the highest class. Selected from among those who applied to the center’s Open Call for Artists, this notable artist is honored with a special solo exhibition. The Open Call program celebrates its third anniversary in 2019 and aims to introduce unique Korean and Korea-inspired artists to the art world in the United States. 

Admission to the opening reception including talks by the artists on Friday, November 1 at 6:00 p.m. is free and open to the public, but registration is required at www.KoreaCultureDC.org (below). Resonance will remain on view during regular hours through November 29, 2019

Resonance

Window glass, Wood, Glass enamel, 11x8x3 (ft), Fusing, Slumping, Enameling, Sandblasting, Cold working, Woodworking, 2016

About the Artist

Jubee Lee was born in South Korea and works as an installation glass artist in Centreville, Virginia. She graduated with a MFA from the Craft/Materials Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University. Lee earned her BFA with honors studying glass at Southern Illinois University where she was awarded the prestigious Rickery-Zeibold Trust Award for her thesis works. Lee was awarded Best of Show at the Glass National exhibition in 2018. She is the recipient of a scholarship from the 45th Glass Art Society Conference in 2016 and was awarded full scholarships from Pilchuck Glass School, Penland School of Crafts, and The Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass in 2018.  Her work has been exhibited in the InLight Richmond public exhibition hosted at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, as well as at Richmond’s Anderson Gallery, Page Bond Gallery, and Artspace Gallery, and the Slover Library in Norfolk, Virginia. Her most recent solo exhibition was at IA&A at Hillyer in Washington, D.C. She is currently a resident artist in the glass program at Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, Virginia. 

For more information, visit the artist's website at www.jubeeleeglass.com

Artist’s Statement 

Resonance is the solo exhibition devoted to the work of Jubee Lee. Inspired by earth elements such as water and by extension the ocean, Lee produced a new body of glass installations, sculptures, drawing, and paintings immersed in the line between an individual’s specifically imagined sense, and their perceived sense of realities: “I feel the ‘Resonance’ of waves from groupings of Kiwa_Korean tranditional rooftop. When contemplating these Kiwa, I can let my imagination run free.” In her works, the images are created by space and interactive components, such as water and light through the materiality of glass. Her contemplative glass sculptural paintings are atmospheric works, which allow viewers to draw association from their own imagined landscape, resulting in an emotional and meditative response.