Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE            Jungjin Lee, Wind 07-106, Courtesy sepiaEYE APERTURE GALLERY AND sepiaEYE PRESENT: JUNGJIN LEE: WIND   Opening Reception with the Artist: Thursday, March 24, 6-8pm   Exhibition on View: March 25-April 14, 2011 Jungjin Lee in Conversation with Vicki Goldberg: Saturday, March 26, 2-4pm   Aperture Gallery and sepiaEYE are pleased to announce Wind, a solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed Korean photographer Jungjin Lee featuring twenty-five stunning panoramic landscapes. A limited-edition artist book, as well as the artist’s first trade book, co-published by Aperture and sepiaEYE, accompany the exhibition. Beautiful in their composition and physical execution, Lee’s images present metaphors for an interior state of being and the forces that shape it. Lee’s landscapes are imbued with an elemental vastness, at once powerful and serene.   As in her earlier work, Lee’s printing technique utilizes a liquid photosensitive emulsion brushed on handmade Korean mulberry paper. The texture of the paper and the gestural marks of the brushstroke create a unique, painterly effect that further emphasizes the fusion of image and photographic intent. In the accompanying book’s text, photography critic Vicki Goldberg writes:   “In these photographs, subject is subservient to content. The subject may be a giant fog that eats a mountain and nibbles away the hills, or a cloud that has invaded a forest and advances steadily, softly, like a determined angel. The content is Jungjin Lee’s response to what she saw, shorthand notes from her spirit.”    A book signing and conversation between the artist and Vicki Goldberg will take place on Saturday, March 26, 2011. The Wind exhibition will coincide with the annual Asian Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) festivities held in New York.  Museums, galleries, curators, and artists will be involved through the ten-day run of the festival (http://www.acaw.net).   Born in 1961, and raised in Seoul, Lee taught herself photography in the 1980s, and earned a MA in Photography in 1991 from New York University.  Her work has been exhibited in numerousgalleries and museums in the United States, Europe, and Korea, and she has published several books, including: Jungjin Lee: Beyond Photography (2000), On Road/Ocean (2001), Thing (2005), Desert (2006). Lee’s photographs are included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Houston Museum of Fine Art; and various prestigious institutions in Korea. Lee is currently working on a project entitled Israel: Portrait of a Work in Progress. The artist currently lives and works in New York and Seoul.   Jungjin Lee and Vicki Goldberg in Conversation: Saturday, March 26, 2:00 pm   Aperture Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (except opening nights/holidays)   Aperture Gallery Address: 547 West 27th Street, 4th floor, New York, New York 10001; (212) 505-5555, www.aperture.org   Aperture—located in New York’s Chelsea art district—is a world-renowned non-profit publisher and exhibition space dedicated to promoting photography in all its forms. Aperture was founded in 1952 by photographers Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Barbara Morgan, and Minor White; historian Beaumont Newhall; and writer/curator Nancy Newhall, among others. These visionaries created a new quarterly periodical, Aperture magazine, to foster both the development and the appreciation of the photographic medium and its practitioners. In the 1960s, Aperture expanded to include the publication of books (over five hundred to date) that comprise one of the most comprehensive and innovative libraries in the history of photography and art. Aperture’s programs now include artist lectures and panel discussions, limited-edition photographs, and traveling exhibitions that show at major museums and arts institutions in the U.S. and internationally.   sepiaEYE is dedicated to showing a spectrum of modern and contemporary photography and video work from Asia. Established in September 2009 by Esa Epstein, sepiaEYE fosters artist development through exhibitions, publications, trade fairs, and festivals. sepiaEYE is interested in the rediscovery of lesser known artists and significant periods within the history of photography and in the support of emerging artists. During her tenure as the Executive Director and Curator of SEPIAInternational and The Alkazi Collection (1995-2009), Esa Epstein has published seven titles on modern and contemporary photography, including: Jungjin Lee: Wind, essays by Eugenia Parry and Vicki Goldberg (Aperture/SEPIA, 2009); Ketaki Sheth: Bombay Mix, preface by Suketu Mehta (Dewi Lewis/SEPIA, 2007); and Vivan Sundaram: Re-take of Amrita, essays by Vivan Sundaram and Wu Hung (SEPIA, 2006). For more information, please contact: Christina Caputo, Marketing and Events Manager, (212) 946-7123, ccaputo@aperture.org                                                                             Our mailing address is: Aperture Foundation 547 West 27th Street 4th Floor New York, NY 10001 Copyright (C) 2008 Aperture Foundation All rights reserved. © 2008 Aperture Foundation. All rights reserved. from this list Forward this email to a friend