Juxtapoz Magazine – Mike Lee is in “No Man’s Land”

At very first look, these didn’t fairly seem to be like Mike Lee will work. The colour palette is there, that practically technological precision is there, like electronic prints hand-painted. But what utilized to be a lot more figurative has develop into illusions of lifetime, a trace of a figure but ghostly. It is nearly as if he is at a fight with his resources, to fully grasp what to demonstrate and what to go away to an creativeness. The outcomes are thrilling for an artist with a masterful hand and ingenuity in his method for many years now. 

“Gaming society was a major part of my adolescence and a form of escape,” Lee suggests. “As a little one, the fascination with war was tied to a stage of fantasy and exhilaration, but approaching adulthood I created a greater being familiar with of the correct consequences. The increase of the world-wide-web and accessibility to common facts presented me an perception to the enormous catastrophes as effectively as the discrepancies of the media’s encapsulation of reality.”

His solo show, No Man’s Land, on check out at 50 percent Gallery in NYC, feels assured and delberate in his new focus on surface and story. It is really a quiet nod to conflicts in lifestyle and in politics, also an being familiar with that humanity has shifted about the program of the previous a few decades. Lee is up for the problem of the second. —Evan Pricco