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Crystal City

March 13, 2008- April 12, 2008

Hye Rim Lee

Max Lang

229 10th Ave

Max Lang announces the opening of Hye Rim Lee: Crystal City, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. The gallery will present a new 3D animation projection, “Crystal City, Spun,” with sound by Lee and the sound artist, Jed Town, as well as fifteen digital prints from the series, “Crystal City.” On Saturday, March 29 at 7:30 PM, the artist in collaboration with Town will stage a live performance at the gallery.

“Crystal City, Spun” is a spectacle of sexually charged stimuli in which TOKI—a highly stylized curvaceous, warrior-cum-vixen who draws upon the Japanese tradition of Manga, Korean animamix and Western ideals of sexuality and beauty—acts as a vehicle for fantasy exploration by Dragon YONG. The prints that comprise “Crystal City”—images derived from the 3D animation video—playfully explore varying degrees of sexuality and sexual expression with imagery and color.

“Crystal City” is a fantasyland where dream and reality mix. While Lee is humorous and nostalgic, she does not shy away from the darker side of fantasy, namely the worlds of obsession and addiction. She challenges the conventions of the traditionally male-dominated worlds of game structure and 3D animation, specifically, when it comes to virtualized images of women. “Crystal City” is a project in which cyberculture and contemporary myth-making intersect.

Hye Rim Lee was born in Seoul, Korea. She immigrated to New Zealand in 1993 where she studied Inter-media at Auckland University’s prestigious Elam School of Fine Arts. Lee has been widely exhibited in Europe, Asia and New Zealand. She received numerous grants, and was the artist in residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York in 2007. The artist currently lives in New York.

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