About this event

Joined artist Ahree Lee from We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles as she discussed her work in an informal and intimate gallery talk via Zoom meeting.

Free

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More About the Artist:

Ahree Lee (born Seoul, South Korea) was a multi-media artist working in video, photography, sound, and interactive installations. Lee received her B.A. from Yale University in English literature and an M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale School of Art, where she studied under Sheila de Bretteville.

Her many commissions included the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the 01SJ Biennial, the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, the 2006 International Short Film Festival in Leuven, Belgium; the International Festival of Video Art of Casablanca, and the Sundance Channel. Her Webby-nominated video Me was shown by Steve Jobs as a demo for YouTube on Apple TV and was in the permanent collection of the Museum of the Moving Image, New York. Me currently had over 9 million views.

About the Exhibition:

We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles brought attention to the dynamic voices in our diverse metropolis that extended viewers’ knowledge and understanding of the Asia Pacific region. The exhibition highlighted seven female contemporary artists of diverse Asian Pacific heritages living and working in Los Angeles. These artists engaged with and drew from their lives and family histories to create compelling works of art that invited visitors to think about their own experiences and heritage. Interwoven in their works were personal and universal narratives that gave voice to the plural community we called home. This show sought to inspire visitors to discover connections across boundaries and see that Asian art was expansive and complicated.

Exhibited Artworks:

We Are Here: Contemporary Art and Asian Voices in Los Angeles placed the art and voices of the exhibited artists as the central themes leading the visitor through the galleries. The exhibition was organized by artist, with their words accompanying their images. A variety of media was represented in the exhibition, including painting, photography, and video. Artists’ videos were projected onto walls in the gallery space. Throughout the galleries, small screens presented short mini documentaries about each artist, which were produced by the USC Pacific Asia Museum.