Painter Jou Lee Hyun was born in Korea in 1965. Jou Lee studied fine arts at Ewha Women's University in Seoul. Her curiosity led her to Montreal in 1994, where she continued her art studies at the Saidye Bronfman Center's School of Fine Arts. Jou Lee's constructions intersect with multiple geometric forms: arcs, triangles, squares, and broken lines. The isolated or tangled forms are survivors of a struggle where art is the battlefield. Thus, the visions on her canvases are attempts to reduce space-time and recompose the past, present, and future.
A geometric art
"Born in Korea, Hyun Jou Lee was drawn to the arts from an early age. After studying the discipline in her native country, she arrived in Montreal in 1994. For more than fifteen years now, her work has been distinguished throughout Canada and even beyond. Her painting is non-figurative with strong imprints on reality, although it remains hidden. Her approach is characterized by space. Fundamental to her approach. Her way of constructing it is unique to her, as if she were telling a story... that of feelings, impressions... Her play with materials is also inscribed within the frame with great ingenuity, where textures and collages give life to a suggestive world as rich as it is dense." Robert Bernier
Jou Lee's works can be found in numerous galleries as well as private and commercial collections in Canada, South Korea, the United States, France and Great Britain.
