Madeline Lee

Madeline Lee is an artist exploring the intersections of identity and place. She grew up near Cleveland, Ohio and has been based in the Boston area since 2015. Madeline studied at Tufts University, blending Environmental and Architectural Studies with her artistic practice. She has a deep curiosity for changing landscapes and the stories we tell through sharing food and spaces. Centered around process, her work is based in observing people, environmental shifts and the subtle processes that create our daily lives. Madeline's recent work has been shown with Unbound Visual Arts, Dorchester Art Project, Creatives of Color Boston, and at the 2021 in PUBLIC Festival.

藝術家簡介

Madeline Lee 是一位探索身份與地位相交的藝術家。她在俄亥俄州的克利夫蘭長大，2015 年搬到波士頓地區。Madeline 在塔夫茨大學學習，將她所學「環境和建築」與藝術實踐相結合。她對不斷變化的環境以及人通過分享食物和空間所講述的故事帶有好奇心。創作時，她以過程為中心，觀察人、環境、以及構成日常生活的微妙的步驟。Madeline 最近的代表作品在 Unbound Visual Arts、Dorchester Art Project、Creatives of Color Boston 以及 2021 年 inPUBLIC 藝術節中展出。

Madeline Lee
Missing Pieces
丟失的碎片
Acrylic on canvas
20 x 24

“There are moments from our lives that I will never get to ask my father about, and for time, he will never get to ask me. Through the process of painting, I open intergenerational stories in colors, layers, and contradictions, acknowledging the tremendous loss and resilience that it took to become ourselves. I reference both clear and fragmented memories, reflecting on the missing pieces of my family history, and noticing the gestures of joy, intimacy, and distance that appear in old photos and along the paths that we have walked since.

My paintings reference old family photos during my father's childhood as a first-generation Korean American that I will never get to ask him about. I reflect on the silently missing pieces of my family history, noticing the gestures of joy, intimacy, and familiarity that appear their images from the late 1960's. I see my family's gentle gazes and hands intertwined, underplayed like the decades of their lives they hardly mention. I wonder about the America they first came to. Being Asian and American has meant leaving parts of our stories behind, but to be Asian American- we find ways to tell our stories more fully with colors, layers, and contradictions, acknowledging the tremendous loss and resilience that it took to become ourselves.”
— Madeline Lee

自述

生活中有些時刻我永遠不會問我父親，隨著時間推移他也永遠不會提起。在繪畫的過程中，借著顏色和層次打開了家族豐富但又矛盾的代際故事，回想自己成長過程中中所經歷的韌性與損失參考自己清晰和碎片化的記憶，觀察舊照片中的親疏，從而來反思家族歷史中缺失的部分。