Sparrow Flying - 20" diameter, mixed media, $900.00
Ginko Biloba - 42"x 50", oil on canvas, $3500.00
JJ Lee (BFA, NSCAD ‘92, MFA, York U ’99) is an equal opportunity appropriator who explores the intersection of Chinese and Canadian cultures in mixed media paintings and drawings. Lee has exhibited extensively in both public institutions (eg Vancouver Art Gallery) and artist-run centres across the country; recently at the Asian Arts Alliance, Philadelphia curated by A. Luis, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Lee is the recipient of several awards both for her individual work (e.g. Canada Council, Ontario Arts Council, RBC New Canadian Painting, Asian Canadian Artists Fund) and her collaborative work (with dancers S. Liska and S. Lee; and with The Drawing Board Collective with N. Waldburger and A. Swartz). Lee’s work is in public (RBC, York University, Canada Council Art Bank) and private collections in Canada and the USA. She is included in the Magenta Foundation’s “Carte Blanche: Painting, a survey of contemporary Canadian painters”. Ms. Lee is an Associate Professor, Contemporary Issues of Representation in the Faculty of Art, OCAD University.