Eric Jiaju Lee
Through a series of drips and pours, Eric Jiaju Lee intersects traditional Chinese painting with concepts of contemporary abstraction. The process Lee uses is a combination of scientific and natural thought. Lee’s circles and lines are formed by a conscious pouring and brushing of paint and improvisational manipulation by gravity on the paint’s natural movement allowing it to either puddle or drip. The applied physics creates images that recall traditional Chinese Landscape paintings while simultaneously expressing the “microscopic and macrocosmic continuum inherent to nature”
Eric Jiaju Lee lives and works in New York and Beijing. He received his MFA from Hunter College and his BFA from the City College of New York. Lee has exhibited in numerous exhibitions locally and abroad and his works belong to diverse private and corporate collections. He is the recipient of a myriad of awards and residencies and has lectured at museums and institutions throughout New York. Lee is currently an adjunct professor of fine arts at Hunter College and Hudson County Community College in New York.
