Specific Objects Yona Lee

The Blue Oyster is pleased to present 'Specific Objects', a solo project by Auckland based artist Yona Lee. For this exhibition Lee has developed a new series of free standing sculptural works. These works mark a departure from her previous sprawling and site-specific installations. Poised, but dynamic, her sculptural forms draw from the formal concerns of 1960’s minimalism, whilst appropriating present day languages of commercial display. Working with chrome-plated steel, Lee coaxes this industrial material into a symphony of lines, considered weights and balances. 

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Yona Lee is a Korean born artist who lives and works in Auckland, she gained a MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts in 2010. Recent exhibitions include Tangential Structures, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington (2013), Line Works, Artspace, Auckland (2012), Composition, Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Auckland (2012), Constrained Organism, Open Window, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2011).