We are happy to announce that Artsy has selected Raina Lee for their monthly 'Five Artists On Our Radar' feature for the month of May.
From Artsy.net:
“Artists on Our Radar” is a monthly series focused on five artists who have our attention. Utilizing our art expertise and Artsy data, we’ve determined which artists made an impact this past month through new gallery representation, exhibitions, auctions, art fairs, or fresh works on Artsy.
Raina Lee (b. 1976, Torrance, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles)
Postcards are a common sight at art fairs: Exhibitors often reproduce works from their booths as 4-by-6-inch mementos. By far the most covetable postcards at New York Art Week, though, weren’t bits of paper ephemera, but instead ceramic wall works by the Taiwanese American artist Raina Lee. At both NADA and Future Fair, Lee presented pocket-sized, glazed stoneware paintings inspired by her travels. L.A. gallery Stroll Garden’s selection at NADA captured scenes from a trip to Paris, like Lee’s partner snapping a photo of a Monet painting. Meanwhile, her presentation with LaiSun Keane at Future Fair documented her time in Spain.
The memories that Lee turns into ceramic keepsakes reflect her deep fascination with relics of cultural history. These include the Islamic pottery she saw at the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, and sculptures from the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona. This interest is reflected across Lee’s broader ceramic practice in works that reimagine Korean moon jars, Japanese raku pottery, and other traditional forms with gloopy, textural glazes and unexpected color palettes.
